Walking Dead Liveblog

Hello, child actress.  Are your parents saving some money for your therapy later?

OK, here we go.  Maybe we can find out what happened to Sophia.

Forgot what a douche Ed was.  Glad he's dead.  Broadly speaking, flashbacks work well in this story, especially with the outbreak episodes.  I guess we'll flesh out (so to speak) Shane and Lori's relationship, since Lori's child is likely Shane's.

"You see eleven condoms, I see eleven minutes if my life I'll never get back."  Reminds me of this.

Rick and Shane with divergent philosophies about survival.  Shane makes sense, which is the horrible logic of survival.

Daryl went and had himself a Deliverance moment.  Punctured by his own arrow.  Probably has Hanta virus on it from that squirrel.

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I'm going to guess that climbing a cliff with an arrow sticking in your side is more painful than having a splinter in your thumb.

I'm going to guess falling down a cliff with an arrow sticking in your side hurts even more.

So Merle is just a hallucination?  Somewhat disappointing.

Daryl vs. Zombies?  Not at all disappointing.  See he was just leaving that arrow stuck in his side for easy access when he needed it.

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Yum, squirrel sushi.  And Daryl goes off the rails a bit.  Hint: zombie ears should be kept well away from open wounds.

Merle's scene reminds me of a sequence in World War Z when a downed supply pilot has an imaginary voice guide her to safety.

Herschel is a wonderful example of apparently benign patriarchs who are really control freaks.  Makes a nice comparison to Dale and Rick.

Nice scene with Dale and Glenn.

Oh, shit, they're going to shoot Daryl.

In a way, this season has been an extended argument for gun control.  All these idiots running around with guns have been a bigger threat to each other than the freaking zombies.

You know, in writing "they're going to shoot Dale", it occurred to me that most shows would ratchet up the tension and then not shoot the guy.  Not this show.  Sumbitch got shot.

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Glad Andrea is not a good shot. (Kind of contradicts my point earlier.)

Ironically, Shane has made the toughest call of all.  Of course, that call involved his own survival. Maybe he thought it was for Carl, but really it was for himself.

Awkward Otis moment during awkward dinner.

And now we are passing notes in Trig.

Carol and Daryl make a nice combo.  Not romantically, but philosophically.

Oops, don't go in the barn, Glenn.  Haven't you read the graphic novels?