quartermainefan

Tis was a great episode and I love that creepy girl is able to walk the walk. She is like Carl 2.0. Sad about Herschel but I think his homespun advice has run its course. There is only so much wisdom that one show needs and now it is time for everyone to proceed without someone who is perpetually correct. Clearly they had a standing exit plan with the bus and whatnot, so I imagine the plan is everyone who can rendezvous at wherever will, but Tyrese and the kids went the wrong way it seems, Maggie I am not even sure where she ran off to looking for her sister, Rick and Carl are on their own, so I am expecting in Feb everyone will look to Daryl to take over. And where did Michonne go after saving Rick?

I don't know what the hell that was with the puppets. That is my vote for worst episode perhaps ever, although the Sue/Shue bit wasn't horrible despite her lack of singing ability.

Well, it is one of the greatest movies Hollywood ever made with a story that is a classic. I am more interested in the accusation that this perceived slight to soap actors really. She is being accused of some crummy things and that will thing sure seems fishy.

Yeah but she isn't Tony Geary or Susan Lucci. She isn't Deidre Hall or Genie Francis. Her heyday as a soap actor was 30 years ago and she never had a major role after that.

But she is a minor soap actress. No one outside of soap fandom ever heard of her. The weird codicil makes me think this story is true because there is no reason for it to be in any given will and who would even think of such a thing? It was put in there it sounds like for the express purpose of exploiting it down the road. And that sort of gives the maid's words some weight.

Another waste of an episode, and look, they are right back to the status quo from last year. The previews are very exciting with the Governor invading the prison-- only not because I saw that episode last year. The season started out so great, what Einstein came up with this crap? And <yawn> his daddy beat him. Such depth of character, such deep writing, it is not as if that motivation isn't used on TV 45 times a week.

I guess they can say it was a tumor in his brain. If that doesn't work maybe he can be revealed as Herschel's son.

Bad episode. The Governor is TWD's Roger Howarth or something. I don't know why the show thinks this guy is so great but last season was the weakest of the four, this season was going great with walkers, and now we have to follow these humans? Human vs human is not interesting, and watching this band of killers attack other camps or whatever it is they are doing is just a waste of time. I knew it would be dull since he was coming back, and sure enough it was.

I wonder what kind of blowback Sarah Palin got from her criticism of the Pope that forced her to apologize and clarify.

Obama really bungled it. One day it was the end of the republican party with their shutdown that had 2/3 of the country blaming them, and the next day it is Obama in the toilet because of Obamacare. And it shows you just what amateur hour it was because this is it, this is what his presidency will be remembered for and nothing else. So you have one signature accomplishment (which Clinton did not) and you not only screw it up but in multiple ways? If this doesn't work that will be it for 20 years and it will be a huge blow to liberalism, and for what, because he didn't want to get QA on a website? Even worse than that though is his "Lie". Once something sticks to you it doesn't come off, and there is just not too many ways to spin him insisting everyone would keep their healthcare when it was just not true. Once Bush said "heck of a job, Brownie" the country stopped listening to him. Sane people stopped listening to him before then but the "Brownie" moment was the turning point for Bush he would never recover from. McCain and his "the fundamentals of the economy are strong" is another example. A moment comes and a switch goes off with the public and it becomes impossible to win the public back. We shall see if Obama's promises to make right will work, but I don't think so because none of his fixes can be explained in one sentence and with simple concepts of right and wrong. Brownie wasn't doing a heck of a job, end of story. People were not able to keep their insurance, no one wants to hear about grandfather clauses and sub standard emergency policies as you try to worm out of a jam. Second terms always seem to end badly for presidents and Obama appears to be no exception. This is why you need Bill and Hillary. Bill would have explained it all and sold it successfully. And if Obama does manage to see his way through this crisis it will be because Bill pushed him into doing it.

I sort of have to agree with Sue this week. 37 yr old Mr Shue has no business twerking with underage girls to the tune of "Blurred Lines".

two major football teams are going to create big ratings.

I am disappointed the Governor is back. Season 3 was the weakest of all and I think a lot of that is due to the Governor and the way the show becomes human vs human when he is around. This year has been great, a giant walkerpalooza, and I can see that this will be coming to an end soon. Oh well. I love Carl and how Rick looks at this killing machine he has for a son.

They both are not outright lies, but if the president and his team is trying to make people think one thing that they know isn't true and people are thinking it, it is as good as a lie. Obama sold his plan with a very simple idea attached: if you like your plan you can keep it. That is one sentence, to the point and he didn't go around making speeches about grandfather clauses and if you got sub par insurance individually. He said if you like your plan you can keep it. This will be the gift to republicans because it is something very easy for people to understand. "He said you can keep it and you can't. We told you." Nothing else will cut through that because everything else is going to sound like double talking BS even if it is true. Bush and Cheney went to great lengths to trick the american people into thinking Iraq was connected to 9/11 because that is who they wanted to attack. Again, they may not have said we have proof, but they knew what they were trying to make people think. Once again, that is all that matters because that is what happened, and any attempt at lawyerly explanations will just come off as verbal trickery. "Cheney never said they had proof" doesn't matter because Cheney knew what he was leading people to think. They said there were WMDs, they claimed an Al Quaeda member passed through Iraq, and then allowed the sheep to connect the dots they laid out for them.

That I think is naive. I know it is crude to say, but America seems to hate women. So many other countries have elected women to lead them but America has not. That alone isn't the whole story because the same country that has resisted electing a female is also the same country that rejects women as leads in movies. Its also the same country that as soon as a woman turns 40 she is sort of invited to go away from the public eye. Clinton is closing in on 70. She can win, but she will have a lot to overcome. Nobody did coverage on what Obama or Mitt Romney wear or how they do their hair, and no one comments on whether or not the pitch of their voice is "shrill" or not. She's got her work cut out for her. Just look at how as soon as Nancy Pelosi got to be Speaker people without knowing her decided they didn't like her. Sarah Palin is an idiot beyond all measure, but people watched to see what she was wearing, whether she looked pretty or not and so on. Most male politicians look like crap on any given day but the media will not point that out. Chris Christie will also have a hard time winning because historically America will not elect an obese president. There hasn't been one in 200 years? ever? I don't think there has even been a nominee, and if that is the match up it will be decided on which cultural bias is deepest entrenched.

Carol didn't tell the other what she was doing I assume because she knew they would disapprove and from her point of view it had to be done. She isn't a risk of killing more people because clearly other people have been getting sick and she isn't killing anybody. With the information she has now, Carol knows killing won't stop the spread therefore there is no reason to kill. She gave it her best shot to stop the sickness from spreading just like she thinks teaching kids how to use a knife and kill is giving the kids their best shot to survive. If there is one thing about Carol it is that her reasoning always makes sense and has a logic to it, and her motive is always for the larger group to survive. That is more than her critics can say, who let emotion and mental weakness drive their actions. One guy wants to kill for booze, herschel wants to infect himself just so he can sleep at night feeling he did his best, Tyrese wants to place himself in situations where he can die by walker assisted suicide, Rick wants to plant veggies even though his leadership skills are needed, Michonne wanted to wander the area looking for the Governor on a revenge trip...only Carol approaches the situation with almost Spock-like coldness and logic. It may be faulty logic at the time, but she gives everything her best given what she has to work with.

Rick was ridiculous tonight. Carol, agree or disagree with her, is a charter member of the group who was with your wife and son while you were still in a coma, and the woman has cared for your baby for an entire season and change, and she deserves some loyalty over these relative strangers. There is no putting her on trial because there is no law, she is either on your team or she isn't and she is on your team. The whole thing is just stupid, and especially from Rick who killed shane, went insane and whose poor decisions has gotten many a cast member killed or injured. Everyone cut him slack when he didn't abandon that stranger in season 2 that wound up getting Herschel's leg cut off in an incident that was a direct result. And Shane told him not to take the guy to the school/wherever that was that Shane got trapped on the bus and almost got killed. But Rick did anyway and no one told Rick he had to leave the group from any of these things. Meanwhile, there is Tedious Tyrese up to his usual BS but the drunk doctor is interesting. I really can't deal with this character. What was he upset about this week, still the off camera love affair that was with some day player that we don't even know her name? Michonne and Daryl have potential as Mr and Mrs Kickass. The drunk has potential too. I didn't miss all the people who were not on.

I think Hillary would chew Christie up in an election. She would have the entire democratic party behind her, he would have half the republican party behind him. The guy can't even get invited to republican conferences because they don't like him. The joke is on them though because as they insist he is not conservative enough, he is just conservative enough to win 70% of the vote in his state while they watch their electoral stock plummet in the name of philosophic purity.

Giuliani won his NY elections and was hugely popular with NY, establishment and the media. He couldn't win a single delegate. Chris Christie has to win caucuses in places where Michelle Bachmann is considered a legitimate politician, and Ted Cruz is welcomed with open arm at victory dinners celebrating the government shutdown. How will Christie win there?

I just don't know what episode you got all that from, honestly. I had no idea his sister was tougher than he is, or that he was super sensitive. Last year he didn't want to help anyone kill anybody but there was no motivation given other than "we should mind our own business"--which is a legitimate enough reason to sit out a battle between humans. He only came alive for me in the scene where he was being surrounded by walkers and had to do a Hulk Hogan and hulk himself up to get out there and fight and that he managed to fight off 100 walkers and make it back to the other. The fight with Rick was just silly.

He came across as angry black man because he really isn't much more than that. The writing for this particular character has been atrocious, practically non-existent. So now after a year we meet this magically from nowhere girl he likes and then she is dead 10 minutes later and he is angry. But so what? What can I possibly feel for Tyrese? Have I watched him star in stories? He is a total blank slate and I am not sure how his emotional attachment to this woman whose face I already forgot (and name) is more compelling than those two girls missing their dad. In contrast, Carol got her shining hour here. She never really had a story but she played support all this time holding the baby or watching her kid die, and now we see how it has all changed her into the toughest one of all, afraid of nothing. She all of a sudden became a fascinating character and she didn't need to scream, she just needed her eyes. Michonne has gotten much better writing this year too, and even Herschel is trying to be something more than a living fortune cookie spouting wisdom. We even see the blonde girl (I forget her name) starting to show a little personality after two years. But Tyrese? "you bring them to ME!"...is that supposed to mean something? Was that dramatic? He is a bad character on the page, or maybe he was a good character played by a bad actor I have no idea. He came on roughly the same time a Michonne and she has blossomed where he has done nothing. I don't know how this character can have a single fan, already in one episode the creepy little blonde girl has more going on. I will say the fact he battled 100 walkers and survived is a good beginning in fleshing him out, but it takes actions and scenes over time to make these characters work. His speeches mean nothing.

This was another really good episode and the backstage creative shakeup really has paid off. I am happy that they got back to the walkers after a year of human vs human. I remember watching the PBS documentary "The Story of Man" and they had this part about how man changed from hunter/gatherers into settling down and becoming farmers. That was the time people started living with animals, and pigs brought the first plagues. I love Carl and he is one of my favorite characters but the actor growing up so fast is hurting the character because half his charm was he was this little child warrior who could kill with the best of them. Now he is on the verge of being an adult and thus will lose what made him so cool in the first place. I think it is obvious those two girls feed the walkers the rats like they are pets, and that is why they congregate at that one point on the fence.

There is no one to intervene unless you want the military to launch a coup. Unlike a parliamentary system the US system has these differences built into the system. It never seemed to be a problem before recent times, but the last 20 years has seen the rise of the rabid right, and they do not acknowledge anyone being a legitimate president that comes from the other party. They no longer seek to govern, they just seek to oppose and destroy. They tried it with Bill Clinton, and they tried it just now with Obama. There may not be any answer because the republicans control all these states and state governments and have rigged the districts so all these insane tea partiers actually reflect their constituents. Republicans courted these psychopaths and peddled anti-intellectualism and fear of anything that is "other", and that is now who makes up their party. According to various news sources the old Republicans (Wall Street) are thinking they may no longer be best served by the republicans. Perhaps that, driving the party broke, may be the way to break the tea party.

Nothing against AMC but I have to assume the show would have been even better on HBO. Anyone who watches any HBO show can see the money and quality that goes into their production. It would have been visually more striking. As for the violence, I would say this is more violent that GoT, although the torture porn scenes on GoT makes me turn away whereas nothing on this show does. Had HBO allowed the violence it would have been a more lavish, visually striking show to say the least.