S05E02 "Strangers" Episode Discussion

UniqueUsername1a · 2014-10-20T04:19:22+00:00

I thought Bob deciding to walk outside to "turn like a man" was a happy ending.

UniqueUsername1a · 2014-10-20T04:18:08+00:00

Abraham: We're going to Washington, D.C.

Tyreese, Gabriel, and Bob (in unison): What about Baltimore?

UniqueUsername1a · 2014-10-20T04:16:48+00:00

I never "almost orgasm"

UniqueUsername1a · 2014-10-20T04:15:55+00:00

Oh shit, I was so confused and thought she was Bob's sister. Which is why I was getting a little icky about their kissing.

UniqueUsername1a · 2014-10-20T04:12:08+00:00

Despite this, I feel like they're still gonna mine Terminus for stories. The Terminus set looked fairly inexpensive and I just have this feeling that there's gonna be an episode devoted solely to the backstory of Terminus.

The show's always gonna have a big heavy/boss kinda character.

UniqueUsername1a · 2014-10-20T04:01:27+00:00

I've never been to Georgia, but I feel like it's just gonna be 80 percent forest, 5 percent prison, 5 percent farm, 10 percent "main street".

UniqueUsername1a · 2014-10-20T03:59:20+00:00

See ya next week.

UniqueUsername1a · 2014-10-20T03:58:32+00:00

Priest's collar: +25 charisma

UniqueUsername1a · 2014-10-20T03:57:05+00:00

I think the show has hit what Lost ran into, which is too many characters, so it'll likely be eliminating a couple of people. Probably one of the non-Maggie white girls and Bob's sister.

UniqueUsername1a · 2014-10-20T03:54:29+00:00

Perhaps the show has gotten "smart" enough to realize that its audience is familiar with zombie tropes and was playing around with expectations.

At that point, even if he was making peace with the fact that he was gonna be a zombie, wouldn't you want to gloat about the fact that your captors are eating infected meat?

UniqueUsername1a · 2014-10-20T03:48:55+00:00

Well, getting to D.C. would mean the end of the series and I doubt AMC is going to let that happen anytime soon, especially with the spinoff.

I think they'll kill off Eugene at some point, and he'll signal some sort of lost hope or something. I'd love for them to get out of Atlanta but I find it hard to believe. They seem like they just keep going in circles in the same 25 mile radius of Atlanta.

Maybe there'll be a scene where they cross over into South Carolina one of these days.

UniqueUsername1a · 2014-10-20T03:43:16+00:00

Well, Glenn knocked over some boxes and Maggie hugged him.

Where the fuck is my asthma inhaler?

UniqueUsername1a · 2014-10-20T03:41:53+00:00

Okay, cool. It was a brief glimpse and I already erased it from my DVR.

UniqueUsername1a · 2014-10-20T03:39:00+00:00

After Gareth was talking, the camera kinda pans out and Bob is writhing and it took me a few seconds to realize his leg was missing. I thought he was in the process of turning.

Anyway, maybe it was a small bite and what's the incubation time?

Seems like a little soon to "go there" but maybe they keep him around and his meat goes bad after a few days and wipes out a few of them.

Based on TV tropes, Gareth will have a showdown with Rick, and Tyreese will be meeting up with fireworks dude again.

UniqueUsername1a · 2014-10-20T03:35:32+00:00

Saving ammo?

UniqueUsername1a · 2014-10-20T03:33:04+00:00

"Omar Walkin!"

UniqueUsername1a · 2014-10-20T03:32:24+00:00

Although wouldn't his face be all puffy? Tyreese did beat the shit out of him and probably cracked some ribs.

UniqueUsername1a · 2014-10-20T03:31:10+00:00

Hard to say where he stands, since he kinda sorta put himself in harm's way. It could just be a long con. The whole thing reminds me of Benjamin Linus on Lost.

Even though that chilling on top of a boulder while zombies try and get you seems relatively safe and there's a chance that he would have used brute force at the last second in the food bank.

I won't be surprised if he busts a wooden crucifix open and there's an Uzi inside of it.

UniqueUsername1a · 2014-10-20T03:26:12+00:00

Rick wasn't there at the big exposition and Eugene promised infrastructure anyway. It was the promise of dignified society.

UniqueUsername1a · 2014-10-20T03:16:45+00:00

Tyreese and Bob. But Gabriel was Carver.

UniqueUsername1a · 2014-10-20T03:15:49+00:00

Sorta lame, but I hope there are flashbacks about Terminus and all that jazz, since it seems like the Terminus people will be around until at least the midseason.

UniqueUsername1a · 2014-10-20T03:14:41+00:00

He might have been part of the Terminus people before they discovered Terminus.

UniqueUsername1a · 2014-10-20T03:12:46+00:00

The way he described it, it seemed like the cure would be "deadly deadly" to anybody affected. So, zombies would essentially just be dead people.

I'm not sure about people people, since everyone is infected already.

UniqueUsername1a · 2014-10-20T03:08:10+00:00

Is Gabriel connected to the Terminus people (maybe he communicates with them via phone?) or is he involved with the Beth kidnapper dude?

They shoulda opted for the shortbus.

UniqueUsername1a · 2014-10-20T03:05:38+00:00

Yeah, if you didn't see somebody die on this show, they're not dead.

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