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Phillip was pretty brutal and awesome killing the walkers in the pit. Although, it reminded me how Glenn tied up that chair taking out that walkers.

This Ike guy is a fool. He is not serious right? Yep, but it really does ramp up the tension and the drama.

Now I get it. Martinez and the other guy abandoned Phillip at the beginning of the episode.

So more Governor/Martinez to come. Eh.

Seriously, the bad ankle from a fall is so cliche. Martinez found him. How strange.

Is this good or bad, Phillip burning the picture? Okay, that woman is begging to be killed. Let him go!

Maybe I was wrong, maybe the family will survive Phillip.

I doubt that we are supposed to be sympathizing with him. This woman is a fool. She is another Andrea trying to be nice to Phillip. Gawd, is she really attracted to disgusting looking Phillip? She must be horny as hell. Now she is leaving her daughter alone with a man she hardly knows? This woman is a fool.

I actually think that it is interesting so far although I have no clue where Martinez or the other guy have gone. I have no idea why they trust him enough to be alone with him.

I think that this might be a whole Phillip episode. We might not see the prison tonight. How did the cop not figure out how to kill the walkers as yet? Know what, it looks like they are going to drag out Philip slaughtering these people.

Ugh, I don't think that I can watch Phillip slaughter these people. I cannot believe that they are telling him where they keep their food. Is this woman really a cop?

Oh no, more people for Phillip to kill. What happened to Martinez and the other guy? Did he kill them too. Yep, I thought Karen would be around longer. Maybe then some more people would give a f'k that Carol murdered her. I think Phillip will try to steal the little girl. This woman is a cop and she let him so close to their guns.

Ugh, Phillip flashbacks. Poor Karen, she survives Phillip using her wits only to end up murdered by Carol.

Thanks. I totally missed her getting shot.

How exactly? Besides, Carol was more likely to kill Glenn than save him. After all he was drowning in blood just like she claimed Karen and David were.

I think the number of people around and the heighten awareness of danger would have made it very difficult for Carol to kill more sick people. However, given her irrational thought process, I am not sure that I would put it past her to kill some of the sicker people if she did get an opportunity to do so. After all, she could rationalize it as saving medical supplies because they were dying anyway. Regardless I cannot see anyone in the group trusting her again. How could anyone believe that Carol would not make the decision to murder again because she decides it will protect the group?

Carol's thought process showed me that she has absolutely no understanding about infectious diseases. First, murdering people who have a virus does not stop it from spreading. Once the virus has entered the environment, especially an enclosed one like the prison, by the time the symptoms show up in a few people, the virus has already spread to a wider group of people. These people just have not shown symptoms as yet. Second, David and Karen were already quarantined and locked up. Murdering them before they died naturally was completely unnecessary. She also ignored the fact that one or both of them might have recovered. Not everyone who gets influenza or dies from it. This whole things tells me that the CDC needs a crash infectious disease health awareness campaign if the Zombie Apocalypse ever breaks out.

The key demo went down to 6.2 which blows most other dramas away. Not sure why the demo went down though because the show is outstanding. http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/11/11/the-walking-dead-delivers-12-2-million-viewers-a-6-2-adults-18-49-rating/214843/ The blond woman who saved Hershel was accidentally shot. I missed it originally.

See I think of all the tv shows, TWD breaks through those "tropes." I don't see Maggie as being written to fit a scene. She is all those things which makes her a well written character. She was a bad ass from her first scene, yet she is also concerned a daughter, girlfriend, and friend with moments of fear and self-doubt. I don't see a lot of tropes about "quiet and deadly black women" so I don't see Michonne fitting anything that I have seen in tv. She is someone who was traumatized and has now opened up to human contact. Rick breaks through all tv tropes about the action leading man. He is full of doubt and makes mistakes. He has suffered a mental breakdown which makes some people consider him weak. Tyreese (and T-Dog before him) is not an angry black man despite the attempts to put in that trope on him.

Yeah, I feel like that was a strong moment for Rick and Carl. Rick also watching his son with pride shooting the walkers realized that he could not shelter Carl who is almost a man. Yet Rick protecting Carl has been able to bring him back from the brink of sociopathy that he was close to by the end of last season. Carl will be more like Rick and less like Shane from now on.

I think that opinions like those deserve eye rolling. Most of those same people melting down over Carol would be ready to stab her in the face, if she had murdered Daryl or one of their favorites. And the rest are basically Shane/Phillip types that the group would run from. I don't see Maggie as "a series of tropes." I think that she struggles like everyone else on that show. When she stood her ground to shoot the walker that Hershel was struggling with, I know that Rick's earlier words about never doubting herself were in head. Maggie and Michonne are most courageous and determined women characters on tv. It is unfortunate that they do not get enough credit.

I know that they have a number of Red Shirts, but she really did pop up out of nowhere to save Hershel and then did a quick vanquishing act.

I don't think that this interview with TWD producter Gale Anne Hurd was posted. Here she shares her thoughts on why Rick banished Carol: http://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/walking-dead--producer-gale-anne-hurd--rick-assumed-tyreese-would-kill-carol-185132039.html

Did the blonde woman who pulled the walker off Hershel die? She seemed to disappear.

Yup, kudos to Hershel. Awww, Adam loves Rick as much as I do. I like Adam using his engineering knowledge to figure how to keep back the walkers. The group really does need an engineer.