C'mon. That's absurd. We've seen walkers waffle their own faces thru a chain link fence to get at people. They were still smoking and we didn't see any rain so that's not it.
The logical explanation is that the writers thought it would look cool so they included them without any hesitation or respect for the viewer or continuity.
I get the wanting this show to be better, but the long winded explanations people (not you) come up with to defend this pile of [Mark May] is becoming ridiculous.
Yeah, I make no excuses for the way the writers twist the rules of their own world, I just thought I'd share what I've read elsewhere and play devil's advocate
While I still find some entertainment value to the show, it's certainly not as enjoyable as the first season, and it definitely takes something away when they can't abide by their own set of rules. Still, I watch so little TV these days, if there wasn't a Walking Dead episode taped on the DVR it would be filled up with nothing but cartoons for the kids and my wife's shows.
Wolverine said:
did Carole learn about the fire, or was she testing Mika? I thought the revelation was showing how advanced Mika was compared to Lizzie, who showed she didn't know the difference in the smoke colors later.
I think Carol learned about the fire from Mika. They mentioned on the Talking Dead that there was a lot of teaching going on in that episode:
1. Mika teaches Carol about the smoke
2. Mika explains that she has no moral problems killing walkers, but almost completely refuses to harm living creatures. She feels sorry for living people that are bad, but won't kill them. Near the end you can see some of this rubs off on Carol, as she sees the deer at the end of the episode, smiles, and lets it live as Mika would have.
3. Lizzy teaches them that you don't always have to kill a walker, which is probably incorrect, but it depends on your point of view
4. Carol later teaches Lizzy what Mika taught her about the smoke
5. Carol tries to teach Mika that you can't always run, sometimes you have to kill, otherwise you end up like Sophia (Lots of Carol comparing the girls to Sophia here)
6. Tyrese talks about his nightmares, and it's probably a defense mechanism to keep from giving away her secret about Karen at that moment, but Carol says "Maybe they’re not haunting us. Maybe they’re just teaching us, helping remind us so that we can live with what we have to do."
7. Not necessarily a teaching point, but when Lizzy is standing over the body of Mika and wants to turn Judith too, Carol makes a quick point that Judith can't even walk yet, so making her a walker would be futile. This quick thinking ends up sparing Judith's life.
8. Perhaps a teaching point for the audience...but we find out that Lizzy not only sees the walkers as friends, but she claims she can understand them or talk to them....she's
the Walker Whisperer! We find out just how mentally damaged Lizzy is, she tells Mika that the walkers want them all to change and be like them. I think Carol is taught that while it's not necessarily a bad thing to teach children survival skills that Sophia never had, maybe some children are not mentally prepared to do that. Carol realizes that everything she taught Lizzy actually made her worse off despite the fact that Lizzy's training did save Tyrese's life at the prison.
9. Carol learns that sometimes theres nothing you can do to change a person. There was no fixing Lizzy, at least not without a proper facility and a straight jacket. She couldn't stay in their little group, Judith's life would be in danger as well as Carol's and Tyrese's. It all comes to a head when Lizzy realizes Carol is upset, but she has no idea why. She thinks Carol is upset over the fact that she (Lizzy) pointed a gun at Carol and Tyrese, not because Mika was dead. At that point it reaffirms what must be done.
10. Tyrese learns that Carol killed Karen. He learns the truth, and at the same time he realizes after the Lizzy situation that Carol is willing to do the hard things that are required for the greater majority. If Carol had dropped that knowledge on him in the grove before the incident, he probably kills her or just leaves. Tyrese also learns from Mika in this episode as his forgiveness is a stark contrast to the vengeance he sought before for Karen's death (Remember Tyrese beating the crap out of Rick?)
11. While Carol is trying to point out to Mika that sometimes things don't work out the way you'd like and you may have to kill bad people, Mika goes on to say that her mother always said "Everything always works out the way it's supposed to." This comes back at the end of the episode when Lizzy and Mika's new mother, Carol, tells Lizzy in the grove "Everything works out the way it's supposed to" as she puts Lizzy down.
There might be some more that I'm forgetting, and I certainly stretched a few of these to make a point, but there definitely was a theme this episode and it was mentioned in Talking Dead as well. It was an interesting note that Tyrese and Carol were putting together a puzzle of Sophia at the table, because Sophia definitely had a lot to do with this episode. While Carol was trying to teach the girls how to be tough in different situations to avoid another Sophia, the girls were teaching Carol in ways how she needed to change. Tyrese learned a few things too, but it was mostly an exchange of knowledge with Carol and the girls.
