I was wondering if I was the only person who thought Glen was thinking about breaking himself off some of that. Who would have thought that GLen would be the center of the new love web...Despite liking girls, Tara seems to have a crush on Glen, who is married to Maggie, but wants to break himself off some Quesadilla, who is hammering Booger Red when she isn't pointing a gun at him...I see a porn parody in the future.
This is where I think the terrible writing actually hurts what is sometimes good production quality...I think the dramatic build of the scene itself, combine with the way the scene was filmed, was actually really good. The problem is the writing was so pathetically trope-y that there couldn't have been anyone that was the least bit surprised by the outcome...which completely goes against the "shock" cinematography. I mean, if you didn't know Beth was the one taking a dirt nap before the show started, there was...the escapee getting Rick-rolled, so no backdoor gunman...no one dying at the church...Maggie not dying, not even alluding to her walking up to Dr. Mullet, and the whole group returning...Michonne telling Maggie that Beth was still alive (the biggest giveway ever)...Beth's changing persona over the past 3 episodes she's been in...her killing the cop...her hiding the scissors...her going to safety, only to run back to Noah...and then the look on her face afterSgt. Ratched said "I knew you'd be back"...I mean, God bless the poor schmuck on TTD, but when he intro'd by saying "I know many of you are shocked" I burst out laughing. The only way to shock, stun, or even mildly surprise, the audience would have been for someone else...Carol, Darryl, Tyreese...to get killed instead. Beth living would have been the shock. So they wasted an entire "shock death" scene, and a good one IMO, on a death that was zero shock whatsoever. I also agree that the entire hospital arc seems like a colossal waste of time, save for the introduction of Noah and the loss of Beth. What was the point? Was it foreshadowing of the fate of the group when the leader tries to use fear to keep people in line and gets desperate? Or was it just another group that they leave and move on? Or was it to introduce the "is it better to stay or keep moving" idea for the second half? I guess time will tell.
Yeah maybe a bunker or military base, or something? Hard to say.
