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The Walking Dead (Official Thread)

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Bucklion said:
So I liked the episode...I think Rick wanting to break him off some tattooed hairdresser is fun :lol: but...can anyone explain the last 2-3 minutes to me? What was that frap between Booger Red and Michonne? What is the significance of the A stamp, and why did rick reach for his gun when he saw his hottie and her husband walking and showing it? And why did he make out with the wall at the end? I liked most of it, but they lost me at the end.
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The A stamp was a branding of "becoming one of us"...hot hairdresser said so about mid-episode but it stands for the Alexandria town they are in. The second one is only a guess but I think it was to symbolize his primal instincts over a woman flaring back up...he heard a walker outside in the presence of her and felt the need to inspect to make sure the wall was safe. Plus it culminated with his prior duty as a cop and renewed duty as constable to protect the public. That is what I have anyways.

Another scene I thought was amazing was the horse being eaten. It had survived the whole time by not trusting and running full speed away from people. But it stopped running like that by trusting Darryl and is presumably what got it killed (based on what the new character said to Darryl about the horse always running). Darryl said they were just trying to help and made sense of it. Really cool parallel to his character and I get the sense that he knows he can survive without the group better than he can with them, but now he cannot actually live meaningfully without them. Aka, I am curious if he is going to die by choosing to stay with the group. And since I just went on a deep tangent, I must also say that I admire the way Darryl can slurp down a pasta plate.
 
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BUCKYLE said:
Why can't a zombie rip a person's skin wide open with it's fingers like they've done to cows and horses? Is it because human skin is so much tougher and thicker than horse and cow hide?
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Or how a zombie's head is so fragile that it explodes when pushed into or hit with any object, but their teeth and fingers are so strong that they can rip people or animals apart.
 
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Bucklion said:
What is the significance of the A stamp, and why did rick reach for his gun when he saw his hottie and her husband walking and showing it?
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Don't know about Rick reaching for his gun during that moment other than maybe Rick was thinking about taking what he wanted...as far as the significance of the A stamp, I'm not sure past what was already stated, but people on the Shag seemed to think it was in reference to past episodes? Supposedly last Sunday's episode was completely filled with references to the entire series:

The horse getting eaten by walkers goes back to Rick's horse in Season 1 and it getting eaten in Atlanta.
There was a street sign somewhere in the episode called "Morgan Ave." or something, which is obviously a link to the Morgan character.
The boar was a throwback to the crazy lady who kept her walker husband in a tent, supposedly she ate boar with Rick, but I had to look it up to remember.
Spaghetti was a reference to Hershel's "Spaghetti Thursdays" or whatever day it was.
The motorcycle was reminiscent of the one Daryl used to have at the prison.

Supposedly there was more, but no one I've seen could really explain what the A stamp was referencing from the past episodes. Maybe something from Woodbury?

[EDIT] It looks like it's this, not even worth mentioning: "The A is from Terminus when Rick's group was kept in the train car marked "A""
 
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The stamp has a few purposes, imo. It's a subtle branding to show Rick has accepted being one of the "A"lexandrians.

Also it's a slight nod to the group being held in Terminus. The end of the episode when Rick is leaning against the wall is almost an identical shot to him listening to what's going on outside of the rail car they were held prisoner in.

It also helps foreshadow the coming of "The Wolves" that the show hinted at in Noah's old neighborhood as the walker they killed outside the gates in this last episode had a "W" carved into its forehead.

The last and most obvious is the "Scarlet Letter" reference between Rick and Jessie. That last scene where they're both holding up their stamps solidified that.

Al lot of those other Easter eggs are just that, nothing really symbolic as much as just clever visual/dialogue nods. Gimple and Kirkman are a big fan of those. They're very intentional with the theming of the show.

The horse's symbolism was that it always ran when Aaron tried to catch it which is how it survived, but it stopped running when Darryl tried and ended up getting killed because of its change in behavior/trust.

I'm less sure about the gun reach, but I think it was much less about him wanting to shoot Jessie's husband as much as it was him remembering his decision to take the guns and what that implicates, as that was the one he reached for, not the holstered one.

There was a lot to chew on this past episode, including the comparison of Carol, Rick and Darryl in the end of last week's episode and this week's, even down to the overhead shot of them walking three differing directions.
 
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Fantastic episode tonight. Really, really brutal but awesome. Every time Glenn gives out orders, the characters make it out alive...this was the first instance he has made a decision that did not work and had to watch a young guy die up close for it. Father Gabriel is a piece of shit it turns out, or seriously misled...or Rick's group could actually be perceived as bad, though I do not think they are. Abraham also appears to have hit stride. Carrol's experience with domestic violence resurfaces. This is the exact episode I usually hope for...plenty of action and character development all around, not the "let's mindlessly spend a whole episode on one person while nothing happens" routine. A very well balanced episode.
 
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Gabriel really needs to catch a bullet. What has he seen to make him do something like that? They hacked up a bunch of people that were trying to eat them?

If I were Glen I would have left the coward to die after he pissed his pants twice and refused to do what he was told. How many people died because one dude was a big fucking pussy?

This was one of the best episodes of the season and hopefully is setting up some awesomeness over the next 2 weeks. It seems like Rick's crew has all the skills needed to run Alexandria so I could see a changing of the guard with the back stabbing priests, wife beaters, and coward scouts being gone one way or the other.
 
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exhawg said:
Gabriel really needs to catch a bullet. What has he seen to make him do something like that? They hacked up a bunch of people that were trying to eat them?

If I were Glen I would have left the coward to die after he pissed his pants twice and refused to do what he was told. How many people died because one dude was a big fucking pussy?

This was one of the best episodes of the season and hopefully is setting up some awesomeness over the next 2 weeks. It seems like Rick's crew has all the skills needed to run Alexandria so I could see a changing of the guard with the back stabbing priests, wife beaters, and coward scouts being gone one way or the other.
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I agree, this was a great episode, which is only frustrating because it shows what it could be consistently. Yes, the zombie effects were great, but the deaths told a story...they meant something, it wasn't blood for blood's sake. It really sets up a bitchin dynamic, which is that the cocktail party people need people like Ricks group...by those people can pretty much hack them up and just take what they want if the decide to. After all, who survived on the American frontier, prissy rich British or Daniel Boone and Simon Girty? After all, Congressbitch knows her son was an arrogant pussy, or she wouldn't have been so eager for Glenn to toughen him up. Now that he's a worm feast, though, I am guessing a showdown is coming.
 
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