Posted on 10/11/2015 2:00:00 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
I believe CoA's response is in the right direction. Pragmatically, the writers may be presuming a fan base such that they don't have to depict some details in the script any more.
What was the explanation of the 'zombie pit' again? Anyone catch that? Something about a group that had left the safety of the town and started another place?
The sense I got was that a few employees barricaded off the quarry with trucks and tried to establish a safe community with a secure perimiter there. However, they got turned into zombies. As time went on, more zombies fell into the quarry pit and could not (easily) escape it. So, over a period of months, with the zombie arrival rate being somewhat larger than the zombie departure rate, the quarry became a densely populated with zombies. The writers seem to expect and require an audience grasp of reasoning basics that are a bit higher than the norm. In almost every episode, the writers present dilemnas to the ensemble characters and then deliberately eschew cliched and trite hollywood style resolutions (eg good guys always wear white hats, good guys always prevail, etc). In that sense, the show is a bit refreshing.
It is interesting to contemplate the show's zombies as being metaphors for modern day liberals. Both zombies and liberals are slow-witted. Both zombies and liberals congregate and move in herds. Both zombies and liberals are easily guided in a given direction. Both zombies and liberals are easily distracted by loud noises. Etc. The metaphorical interpretation seems to me, on the whole, to be about as valid as the metaphorical interpretation that the pod people in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" allegedly represented rabid anti-communist conservative blowhards during the 1950s era of the so-called "Red Scare."
Your son is perceptive. That’s certainly a possibility.
“Gabriel blow your horn”. LOL
Yep. That’s what I thought of.
First I thought of the Wolves-but that seems too obvious.
Then, there’s Gabriel. It really makes sense because he is deranged and could twist that passage to suit his delusion.
I thought of Ron because he’s bitter about his dad.
The writers do throw us curveballs so it could be none of the above.
You’re right. Rick is doing what he needs to do to insure their survival. He has no other motives. Somebody had to do it.
“TWD is truly an incredible show. Where else can you see someone talking about machete training while pushing a baby carriage? :)”
Yes!
What a difference between FTWD and The Walking Dead! No comparison.
Neither do I so that's why I read all the recaps on these threads before I watch the episode..........OK, so I also read the last chapter of books to see how they turn out before I start the book.
Well said.
Yes, they’re very good with the curveballs.
Never a dull moment.
It certainly seems ritualistic. Maybe it was a reference to Jewish ritual? In Jewish ritual (I looked it up online, so all bets off), the body is prepared for burial by ritual washing and dressing in only in simple cloth to avoid distinction between rich and poor. If the person was injured, the the ritual washing is never completed.
Last night show was awesome. Haven’t seen so much Zombies in one area since I last visited Berskeley.
I think it was Jon who is blowing the horn and perhaps he knows some of the members of the wolves.
Is Jon the kid Rick saves from going over the edge?
Am I the only one who thinks Rick is not merely getting rid of the zombie horde? I think he's using them like a weapon, but I haven't figured out where he's sending them.
If he wanted merely to be rid of them, they could have lit the whole pit on fire for the cost of some flammable liquid in molokov cocktails. It would have been a whole lot safer for themselves and the world at large than sending them out on a jaunt.
It only makes sense if there's a purpose to the zomb-bomb he's delivering. But somebody's on to him and is redirecting it.
Yes and he is the son of the woman who Rick is falling in love with and the son whom Rick and Morgan was burying.
Morgan is the one blowing the horn. I think he is part of the WolvesNotFar gang. Remember Rick sent him back to the community after the one guy became zombie chow.
It was awfully coincidental when Morgan showed-up and he was following the symbols carved into the trees by the tracks a few episodes back.
Thanks. I can’t keep up with the names of some of the new people.
I think you have something there.
Michonne doesn’t like Morgan and Carol is leery of him.
Prediction: Morgan gets it by one of the women.
Ah true but also you have the little boy (Jon’s baby brother) who stamped a Letter A on Rick’s hand. Perhaps there is a clue in all this LOL
Ok I finally saw it online (I don’t have a tv), and I half to admit Rick’s plan was pretty dumb. The quarry is a natural zombie trap. Like the Alexandrian said, just reinforce the trucks with new walls and put some noise makers to lead walkers into the quarry. Problem solved.
No, where I am we see ads for the Maui zoo.
I don’t see Morgan being part of the Wolves gang. A couple of them tried to kill Morgan and take his stuff, but he used his staff to knock them out and leave them in a car. An episode or two later, Morgan rescued Daryl and Aaron from the trap that the Wolves had set up with the walkers inside of the tractor trailers.
I think the most likely people honking the horn are Ron (older son of Dr. Pete (now deceased) and Jessie), Father Gabriel, or the Wolves gang.
“If anybody asks, we were never in Wisconsin!”.
Thanks for the quarry explanation.
Like you, I appreciate that TWD allows us to use our brains and make our own connections.
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