tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post247849245499514858..comments2024-03-28T10:18:00.370-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: The Walking Dead 5x07: CrossedAustin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-59495139816692828062014-12-02T10:22:10.658-06:002014-12-02T10:22:10.658-06:00You'd think I'd be on Tyreese's side a...<i>You'd think I'd be on Tyreese's side and I kind of am but, at the same time, while Rick's plan means more death it also means the hospital group is no longer around to prey on other people.</i><br /><br />Yeah, once again, I feel like the show is setting up a situation to make a "Shane was right!" point to shut up those of us who disagree with that sentiment, but still missing our point. So they're going to try Tyreese's approach, it will fail, then Rick will kill people, and the show will be saying "see, Shane's way is the only way! The other way failed!" <br /><br />Except, as you point out, like with Terminus, this is a case of Rick's group assaulting a ruthless organization that preys on others. The Anti-Shanes have no problem with the characters taking down those groups, and taking them down hard. They need to be stopped before they prey on other people. But Shane's approach is "kill anyone who's not in your group, immediately and ruthlessly, without question" and that's not really the situation here. <br /><br />Now that I think about it, why did they bring Tyreese along on this mission? Since he's fairly anti-violence (or at least anti-offense) at this point, why not leave him with Carl and Judith, where at least he'd only have to fight in defense? He's a good fighter, but not any moreso than Michonne, I'd wager. <br /><br /><i>Shouldn't Carl just respond, "BUT THEY ATE PEOPLE!"</i><br /><br />Yeah. I mean, Rick's group has the moral high ground here. I'm not sure why the show is trying to muddy that. <br /><br /><i>Then again, what other choice does she have?</i><br /><br />I went through the same thought process. <br /><br /><i>I also call BS on the whole "one officer can tell another person is an officer after a minute of interaction."</i><br /><br />It's such a common trope now I almost hardly even notice it. But at this point, you almost feel like people should say, "you move like a cop. Or someone who has watched a lot of cops on TV and movies." <br /><br /><i>I was confused why the group didn't immediately start killing the melted zombies.</i><br /><br />Ditto the stuck under the fence zombies that Glenn, Tara and Rosita eventually killed. These people should always be killing zombies every chance they get, ESPECIALLY when the risk and effort in doing so is minimal. <br /><br /><i>Case in point, Daryl nearly bit it...er...got bit.</i><br /><br />That was ridiculous, of course, but at the same time, Daryl using a zombie head a weapon is so ridiculous you just have to love it. <br /><br /><i>Am I the only one who feels the sexual tension between Michonne and Father Gabriel?</i><br /><br />Yes? <br /><br /><i>Shouldn't stepping on a nail as you try to leave somewhere be seen, by a priest, as a sign from God?</i><br /><br />Or, at least, a sign of "gonna die from Tetanus soon". <br /><br /><i>Then again, maybe she shouldn't have tried to kill any seeing as how it turned out.</i><br /><br />Morons. Just...morons, the lot of them. If they'd just killed all those zombies like they should have, the officer wouldn't have been able to dupe Stupid Sasha. <br /><br />@Frenchie: <i>I also kept yelling in my mind "seriously, no one is gonna take the cops' bulletproof jackets ?"</i><br /><br />This x100.Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-31402516052595152752014-12-02T10:22:08.094-06:002014-12-02T10:22:08.094-06:00At the start of The Talking Dead (which I caught j...At the start of <i>The Talking Dead</i> (which I caught just because I didn't stop my recording fast enough) Chris Hardwick "joked" that the characters should all start wearing helmets, for as much as they keep getting knocked out. To which I countered, "or, the writers could just stop writing them like idiots". <br /><br /><i> At the same time, you could argue that (despite the incredible popularity of The Walking Dead) that's damning the show with faint praise.</i><br /><br />I'm inclined to agree, though like you, that's more damning with faint praise for me. <br /><br /><i>The Walking Dead has hit this sweet spot of being good enough to not rag on but not being so excellent that I feel the need to heap praise atop of it.</i><br /><br />aka The Reviewers Curse. Honestly, I have no idea how some of the reviewers at places like HitFix or the AV Club manage to review every episode of thoroughly mediocre shows week in, week out. <br /><br /><i>This episode seemed more about straightforward plot than thematic resonance.</i><br /><br />Like you said, I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. Frankly, the show could use more episodes more concerned with plot, but that's me and my interest in, you know, story. <br /><br /><i>Speaking of tearing up the church, what exactly was their goal? Building a zombie fence?</i><br /><br />That was my assumption. Securing the church against zombies, basically. Boarding up the windows, making a fence, etc. <br /><br /><i>I was looking at GREATM and tried to think what the woman's name is who starts with R. Which probably tells you how impactful a character she has been so far.<br /><br />It's Rosita, by the way.</i><br /><br />Haha! Well played. It took me a minute as well to figure out the R. Can I just say, I like Tara? Her joking about DC maybe was a little too soon, but it's nice to have someone on he show who isn't totally doom and gloom all the time. The thing with the team name was a nice touch. <br /><br /><i>I think after like more than 5 minutes of unconsciousness serious brain damage is likely to have occurred. </i><br /><br />Frankly, when he started waking up and moaning, I was expecting him to have died and turned, but the scene definitely played more hopeful than tense, so I doubt it. <br /><br />Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-65337650161711377422014-12-01T15:21:26.739-06:002014-12-01T15:21:26.739-06:00I feel like Rick's group should've surroun...<i>I feel like Rick's group should've surrounded the cops when they lured them into the trap.</i><br />Yeah, what a poorly-conceived trap, poor already-limping Noah even got hit by the car.<br /><br />I also kept yelling in my mind "seriously, no one is gonna take the cops' bulletproof jackets ?"Frenchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-81148318418631121202014-11-26T11:46:14.259-06:002014-11-26T11:46:14.259-06:00You know, wwk5d, I kind of remembered from an old ...You know, wwk5d, I kind of remembered from an old comment of yours that you might be, but decided to go on anyway with the risk of coming down in flames with it. Damned Google Translate seemed so <i>sure</i>! Didn't know about Ra's Al Ghul.<br /><br />Anyway, enough of that, there's also this TV show with zombies and shit. Watched my first ever episode with this one, they're showing it very-nearly-real time for us too here, hilariously on FOX's local channel so I'm still game for them buffing the upcoming X-Men movie with this popular show here with 'Dawn' like they at Marvel do with their Agents of SHIELD. If they kill her in the next ep she'll be zombie-Apocalypse. Anyway, you don't stick your fingers into zombie mouth, that goes against everything. You just don't.Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-2671466124238865162014-11-26T05:56:07.282-06:002014-11-26T05:56:07.282-06:00Google Translate is sometimes (ok, quite a few tim...Google Translate is sometimes (ok, quite a few times) wrong. I'm saying this as an Arab person. His name is "Morning Light". Just like Ra's Al Ghul is "Demon Head" in Arabic. <br /><br />Granted, it makes little or no sense for someone who was around during Ancient Egypt to have either an Arab or Turkish name...but given the history of the country, Arabic makes more sense. <br /> wwk5dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-83921743716282675922014-11-26T01:12:41.773-06:002014-11-26T01:12:41.773-06:00Well, Turkish really, if Google Translate is to be...Well, Turkish really, if Google Translate is to be believed. Anyway, close enough at least for the Finnish-speaking me for whom 'dawn' translates literally as 'the-coming-of-morning'.<br /><br />But if she gets stabbed into throat in the next ep I'm ready to call it.Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-90760887393640119772014-11-25T14:00:31.438-06:002014-11-25T14:00:31.438-06:00Actually, his name means "The Morning Light&q...Actually, his name means "The Morning Light" in Arabic. <br /><br />I'm actually liking Rosita. Now that's she actually getting some characterization these last few episodes, she becoming interesting, and a good addition to the show. wwk5dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-13297477050769241432014-11-25T13:44:26.029-06:002014-11-25T13:44:26.029-06:00So Officer Dawn now likes Beth because she has pro...<i>So Officer Dawn now likes Beth because she has proven her strength? I think Dawn might actually be Apocalypse.</i><br /><br />"En Sabah Nur" translates to 'Dawn Light' according to the internetz, and I remember him calling himself 'Son of Dawn' once. I think you might be right. Let's see if she's going to refer her people as the horsemen.<br /><br />I didn't look it up this time, yet, but I'll bet the verses numbers on the church board are again referring to hand picked lines about the dead rising from their graves.Teemunoreply@blogger.com