The Walking Dead

wouldnt the car alarm itself drain the battery?

Would have made more sense if it was a manual transmission and he had to jump start it, esp with an active car alarm that would have drained the battery. Don't really need a charged battery in that case (I should know, for about a half a week I had to drive a car /w a battery that ruptured and could not hold a charge). But like others have said, gas will become unusable after about a year or so. But then again, this is a show about corpses that walk around, so w/e.

Btw, seems my spoiler prediction about Merle based on the leaked photo of Zombie Merle was correct! I r teh TV detective.

That's not Glenn on the ground. Like the other poster said, it might be that other dude in Tyreese's group. However, that DOES appear to be the farm where they arranged to have that sit-down meeting last episode. Merle also looks like he may have taken a bullet to the heart/chest, based on the blood stain center mass. He isn't rotting much, although it does appear he may have been dead for a bit, considering how his face looks. His blade is also out, which suggests he was fighting or preparing for a fight when he died.

We can't see who discovered him, but the fact there appears to be collateral damage of other freshly killed people makes me think that something went down at the farm and whoever is in front of Merle discovered the aftermath. If we are to take how Merle looks as evidence of a time lapse, then whoever it was who found him didn't go with Merle to the meeting farm. However, if Daryl was with Merle, Daryl probably wouldn't hesitate to make sure Merle doesn't come back as a zombie. This makes me think that either Merle tried to go off on his own and enact his own plan to kill the Gov (and died) or Merle did something to ensure that Daryl got away before Merle dies

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On a side note, Glenn proposing to Maggie makes me think one of them is going to get bumped off ;/

Maester Chuk_sl said:

off topic, but was EQ the only mmorpg where you could get trained or train others?

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You can train on Vanguard. That is a given though considering the person in charge of making it.

Filler? Merle died, and Daryl had to be the one to kill him off, hardly would call that "filler". End of episode or not. And you saw Merle's character get belittled and questioned every step of the way since being betrayed by the Gov and leaving his camp to join Rick's group at the prison. So his change of heart is kind of understandable, and IMO significant redemption. He also goes out like a bad ass killing a bunch of Governor's men by luring them with that zombie trap. You all wonder why this shit is popular, yet you tune in every fucking week when you hate the show. It's not really that hard to understand why its popular if cynical fucks can't stop watching it.

so what are you saying, if an episode is 75% filler as long as something happens in the last 25% its all good? dunno about you but resetting the storyline every fucking episode is not how i watch serialized television. each episode should have a progression. either take michonne to the Gov or leave her the fuck alone and go yourself and get your internal struggle out of the way.

You have some kind of full retard look on this where if people aren't constantly dying it's not progression. Episode was clearly about Merle, hearing about his past when he talked to Michonne/Daryl, seeing his conscience weigh on him. He told Daryl about how the group looked at him like the devil, when he saw himself basically doing the necessary evil things to survive that other people couldn't handle. Any main char at all dying in an episode pretty much invalidates your argument. Also, I don't think the things Merle said to Michonne is completely lost on her either, how Rick was going to give her up at first. It'll have repurcussions continuing into the next episode. Oh noes, Michonne didn't go from Point A to point B, and instead was released. DAMN THIS FILLER. You're seriously just bitching to bitch. Wait, I sure hope the Zombie AI Pathing is up to Astroretard par (see how i made an EQ reference, hilarious right), wouldn't want you to lose your shit because zombies are teaming up!!1111

After tonight's episode I finally realized this isn't a drama, it's a comedy. I just can't decide which is funnier, a one-eyed marksman, or a guy with one hand who can twist the end of a car antenna into a perfect half circle. Fuck, I couldn't do that neat a job with both hands. Can't wait for more laughs next week.

Also, from where I'm standing, the only ones with a sandy vag are the few who've come in the last couple pages defending the show and bitching about the complaints. Here's an idea, take your own advice. If you don't like whats posted don't read this fucking thread. This thread has been the same since season 1 on FoH, it ain't gonna fuckin change.

Golt_sl said:

You have some kind of full retard look on this where if people aren't constantly dying it's not progression. Episode was clearly about Merle, hearing about his past when he talked to Michonne/Daryl, seeing his conscience weigh on him. He told Daryl about how the group looked at him like the devil, when he saw himself basically doing the necessary evil things to survive that other people couldn't handle. Any main char at all dying in an episode pretty much invalidates your argument. Also, I don't think the things Merle said to Michonne is completely lost on her either, how Rick was going to give her up at first. It'll have repurcussions continuing into the next episode. Oh noes, Michonne didn't go from Point A to point B, and instead was released. DAMN THIS FILLER. You're seriously just bitching to bitch. Wait, I sure hope the Zombie AI Pathing is up to Astroretard par (see how i made an EQ reference, hilarious right), wouldn't want you to lose your shit because zombies are teaming up!!1111

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actually no, he never told michonne why he couldnt come back to the prison and change his ways, taking michonne to the gov wasnt even his idea. rick informed him about the deal , mind you he never actually asked his opinion on it, he just wanted to tell him and he left it up to merle to tell him on his own what Gov will likely do to her. then merle decides that rick is a big pussy (duh) and gets his knapsack ready, even going so far as bringing along rick's Loriphone. then he one punches michonne, drags her all the way through the prison and out until she wakes up down the road and decides to walk with him to her death. then merle changes his mind. so basically merle got his redemption, just nobody but the audience will ever seen it. letting michonne go doesnt count because kidnapping her wasnt really part of his idea and letting her go can be attributed to him realizing what a pointless gesture bringing her to the Gov would be.

That reminds me, why the fuck did he take the phone anyway?

i assumed he was taking it to hit michonne with it, then i figured it was for the wiring to tie her up. but dunno why he needed the earpiece and phone when he used his metal arm to one shot her.

Maester Chuk_sl said:

actually no, he never told michonne why he couldnt come back to the prison and change his ways, taking michonne to the gov wasnt even his idea. rick informed him about the deal , mind you he never actually asked his opinion on it, he just wanted to tell him and he left it up to merle to tell him on his own what Gov will likely do to her. then merle decides that rick is a big pussy (duh) and gets his knapsack ready, even going so far as bringing along rick's Loriphone. then he one punches michonne, drags her all the way through the prison and out until she wakes up down the road and decides to walk with him to her death. then merle changes his mind. so basically merle got his redemption, just nobody but the audience will ever seen it. letting michonne go doesnt count because kidnapping her wasnt really part of his idea and letting her go can be attributed to him realizing what a pointless gesture bringing her to the Gov would be.

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What are you even saying no TO exactly? I said that he told Michonne it was Rick's plan to send her to the Gov, he was doing the dirty work - she didn't buy it. She brought up the fact that he misled her with clearing out walkers and that there's no way to be sure he was honest about that. So what exactly are you refuting again? Redemption? Michonne was the one he freed, so she obviously witnessed his change of heart. And I think it's pretty obvious that Daryl is going to end up telling the group that Merle got turned into a zombie at the meeting place between camps.. and that there were live people killed there. And the gunshot wound on merle's chest, pretty easy to figure out what he was up to. So the group will know he let michonne free and tried to hurt the woodbury group - right there is redemption, not just the audience. You can extrapolate anything you want from him letting her go, I disagree he just did it because it was pointless. I think what she said to him stuck, and he realized that the BETTER way to help his brother Daryl when he realized giving her in was no guarantee - was instead to try to kill the Gov himself.

i was refuting your previous post about how this episode had a progression. merle knew the whole time what he was doing was pointless, why? because the governor is a sneaky bitch backstabber. remember the natl guardsmen ambush scene? so rick doesnt ask or tell him to take michonne , merle knows rick is a pussy lil weasel himself. so he decides to take michonne to Gov? why? because the plot needed something for him to do. and because the whole thing was a waste of time he lets her go at the last quarter and of course she gets back safely and resets her char for the finale which will no doubt be mostly filler about the fight thats going to happen in the last ten minutes of the episode(and what car has a car alarm that lets you start the car up first before it kicks in?).

daryl has no idea about the EQ train merle set up. for all he knows merle was just heading back to join up with woodbury and got shot for being a traitor. in fact, for all merle did when he was at the prison they should have had him die at the bridge scene when daryl decided to save that family. it was all very pointless and only served to pad the extra episodes they added from last season. probably because they only wrote 12 episodes initially and had to come up with a last minute rewrite. that's also probably why they shoehorned that cool ep with rick and michone revisiting morgan and retrieving the picture and the rainbow cat.

it was a rotary phone with the dial if you notice he had michonne fingers in the dial when he tied it up so she couldn't just hijack a gun and shoot him. Trust me it makes sense in the walking dead land.

There were definitely proper trains in FFXI, not surprising since it also had xp camping and zone lines. Soft seamless zones with leashing on mobs has pretty much killed training. I guess you can kind of train an instance but with no other groups it doesn't really matter. Plus there is even leashing in instances I think.

I think it's funny how an episode is able to get salvaged from 'pure shitty' to 'slightly below average' based on the last 10 minutes. The writers are using the classic 'bait them along for 45 minutes' style of writing and then payoff/tease at the end. Wife had the Talking Dead on after and one of the shows writers compared this episode to the one in S2 when Dale got it (he wrote that one and last nights). Difference I see is I'll admit I did not see Dale going down like that whereas it was pretty obvious to me the Merle was not going to be sticking around long term.

It was pointed out to me that the guy who walks in front of the Governor and gets shot was the son of that white guy in the Tyreese group. Did his dad eat it too in that shootout?

The show has enough stupid shit in it. We don't need to be looking for more

I liked the end, the way Merle went out. It was a good plan, if a tad unrealistic. The soldiers are distracted and panicked from a flood of zombies, so he can start picking them off and they won't realize it right away. The only complaint is that he didn't kill anyone we've even seen before, as far as I can tell. It's a great plan of "lighten their numbers of shooters so the prison can have a chance," except in terms of what we know, these were just extras added in to be killed and their loss has no impact on the core of the Gov's people...they'll just respawn next episode