The Walking Dead

as fast as they dig those big ass holes to bury stuff, they could have a moat done in a week

they also appeared to have a full construction yard of equipment. they just need to collect a shit ton of k-rails and circle the compound.

in my experience with that area, shouldn't have to travel more than 50 feet to hit highway construction

The spikes were logical, they give you an eyeline on the incoming zombies, while also being something a normal human can get through that a zombie generally won't. It was good for the entrance to create a bottleneck for zombies that humans can pass through. I vaguely recall someone, I think Michonne, going under the spikes and letting a zombie get caught on it while scrambling for the gate.

what boggles my mind is they put the fence's support struts on the exterior of the walls. so anyone can come along, knock a few of those down and the whole fucking wall collapses

Well, any applied force will be from the bottom of the wall. If the wall pushes inwards at the bottom, than the top pushed outward. If the support beams are on the outside, then they act as a force pushing the top of the wall inwards as opposed to outwards if they are on the inside.

Wow that was 90 minutes of absolutely nothing happening. We had like 3 Mexican stand offs happening at once and no one died and then ultimately a red shirt no one gave a fuck about or took the time to learn his name died.

goatface_sl said:

in my experience with that area, shouldn't have to travel more than 50 feet to hit highway construction

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Coffee on monitor, thanks.

And yeah, I think I joked about Daryl pulling zombie trains all over the southeast with his goddamn motorcycle before. It's a horrible idea for a scout vehicle as presented in the show, but it doesn't have to be - external gas cans to enhance the range (great mileage but poor capacity), actual mufflers (you can find steel mountains of discarded stock mufflers in a scrapyard I'm sure) a spare tire somewhere, etc.

The way they are using it now, it'd be best if fagbro hung a mile behind while Daryl rides around and draws people to him with the noise. They have radios, right? If he doesn't get shot off his bike for his crossbow and squirrels then he's probably found good people. Not the best plan, but it seems to be what they are going with.

Personally, I'd be on the lookout for a working police cruiser. They let you skip a lot of steps in making a zombie/human safe tank. Sheet metal over the windows, a metal shutter for a windshield. Is it so hard to find a machinist who has seen a few Mad Max movies?

And I wasn't nitpicking the moat thing, just making jokes. I think they are just confident in their wall because they've never seen a herd. It'd be funny if next season opens with them having an army engineer double wall filled with dirt and rubble with watchtowers and shit. What else are they going to do with their days, bake casseroles?

Also, I'd have these people figuring out how to make bows and spears for zombies because you need bullets for the fucking PEOPLE.

But the show isn't really about those sort of details. They are just thrown in here and there.

hmmm about these walls... seems people can climb out where the walls are pinned together from the inside.
which brings out these questions
1) how do they get down? Jump.. if so, that's a pretty high jump
2) if they climb down, then there are pins on the outside?
3) if they climb down then outsiders can climb in?
4) how do they get back in if they did not climb but actually jumped? front gate knocking and nobody asks... "hey, how did u get out?"

suddenly these walls are a huge hole in the story for me.

Maybe they shimmy up the supports. Just picture Maggie shimmying in those tight pants of hers.

I still think it's pretty damn funny that Rick blasted the guy right in front of the fucking rotary club after showing up covered in blood with a zombie head busted open like a grape. Look at that whole scene from the point of view of those sheltered twats. Welcome to the new Alexandria, bitches.

I bet Carol masturbated herself into a coma that night.

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hmmm about these walls... seems people can climb out where the walls are pinned together from the inside.
which brings out these questions
1) how do they get down? Jump.. if so, that's a pretty high jump
2) if they climb down, then there are pins on the outside?
3) if they climb down then outsiders can climb in?
4) how do they get back in if they did not climb but actually jumped? front gate knocking and nobody asks... "hey, how did u get out?"

suddenly these walls are a huge hole in the story for me.

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Realize they did not build the walls to keep out people, only zombies. The people probably can climb in. The zombies can't. Suddenly there is no hole in the story.

It looked lik there were foot/hand areas in the wall to allow you to climb up/down like

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Also, I didn't realize morgan is saul from snatch until I heard his british accent in the talking dead after the show.

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I would also like to chime in with "How the fuck did I not notice!?".

Episode was an episode.

that was great

For the fence questioners.... you gotta remember the walls are fine stopping Walkers and that's all the Alexandria crew cares about because they haven't yet learned what the Rick crew has: other people are the real threat. That's why the finale was so awesome in presenting other people as the real threat to Alexandria, as the story had been building toward for all season, and definitely didn't end by focusing on a bunch of [sometimes inexplicable] oh-shit-zombies-what-do-we-do-what-do-we-do moments that yet again push the people-are-the-real-threat theme into the background to be forgotten until next years mid-season finale.

they were trolling glen's death hardcore. dude had 5 zombies on top of him which is about 400 pounds of rotting meat compared to glen's 120 pound mass of muscle. naaaaaaah! glen was completely fine

Obviously he used kung-fu.

They still haven't done anything on the level of the actual "villains" so in that sense they are still mostly in the grey area. Pussbag Dale would disagree but Hershel would be cool with it, so by that measure it's all good.

Like Shane may have been right about a lot of things but he was clearly full of shit when he tried to justify his actions as being "for the group." (for the poon, more like it)

Granted, Carol just straight up wanted a guy dead for being a wife beater and did everything she could to manipulate that outcome. But that's not on the same level as wanting a whole town of strangers dead just for hanging out in the same zip code. Hey, Rick only acted after asking permission.

Christ, if Morgan is the new Dale I'll punch my tv.

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Are Rick and Carol still considered "good guys"? Carol is pretty much a psychopath who threatens murder at every turn, even threatening a little boy when all she had to do was bake some damn cookies for him to get him to keep quiet. Rick obviously instigated and provoked the situation with the wife beater because he wanted to steal the wifey. He even says as much to her when she asks if he would be helping just anyone and he says no. Yeah you can say that they both "had their reasons" for doing the things they do but isn't that the case with everyone who does shitty things. Even the governor felt he was justified in doing what he did.

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That is a fair question. It does seem like they pull the "Just kill them" card pretty early and often.