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The beer would still be safe to drink regardless of the timeline. It also would still have alcohol in it. And let's be real--All of us would drink it even if it tasted a little off. It's the zombie apocalypse.

Gasoline is an entirely different story. It would be useless within 8-12 months.
 
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Well just got my first official date of the start of the apocalypse. Just started over watching The Walking Dead and am coming up to the CDC episode. Dr. Jenner is doing a recording and says that it is day 63 since the disease went global. He also said day 194 since wildfire was declared. I don't recall what that is about, but it started almost 5 months before the apocalypse. Maybe something to do with the virus being used/discovered, but it took 5 months for it to mutate into what it is now.

Some of the highlights after watching the first 5 episodes again.

Daryl was restrained after finding out his brother was left behind. To calm him down Shane put him in what appeared to be a sleeper hold and Daryl responds with, "choke holds are illegal." So you know Daryl and Merle probably spent sometime watching their local wrestling organization growing up.

I enjoyed watching Shane beat the crap out of Carol's abusive husband. Even afterwards, she still came crawling back to him. Later he gets killed and Carol takes the pickaxe from Daryl and says that she wants to be the one to do it since it is her husband. I think using the pickaxe on his corpse is what releases her from the battered wife syndrome she was going through. Then the later death of her daughter turns her into the badass Carol that we love.

Shane became a pretty big scumbag right off the bat. From abandoning Rick in the hospital, ignoring the rest of his group that is trapped in Atlanta with newly found Rick, continuing to try and hook up with Rick's wife after discovering Rick is alive, and then pointing a gun at Rick in the woods and thinking about taking him out of the picture to get his wife. When he shaves his head eventually, that appears to be the death of what was left of the old Shane that still had morals.

Rick about to get the whisper about we're all infected.
 
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shane would have been a better leader. rick has effed up more situations and ruined more groups than any good he has done. shane might have been more unhinged but he could have made the harder decisions better. imo
 
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thabigbluenation said:
shane would have been a better leader. rick has effed up more situations and ruined more groups than any good he has done. shane might have been more unhinged but he could have made the harder decisions better. imo
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I don't know about that after paying more attention to him this go round. I think he would have become a Governor or Negan type if he stayed around longer. He would have started a dictatorship and if you didn't go along with it you would be toast. :uzi:

He wanted to murder his friend to steal his wife. He damn neat raped her at the CDC. Then he shoots an innocent man to slow him down to be eaten so he could get away. Rick has made a ton of mistakes, but he is always looking out for his people and trying to do what is right (unfortunately failing a lot) for the most part. I think Shane ended up worrying about doing what's right by himself and not worrying about how that would effect others.

Glenn probably would have been the best leader with how well he planned for things in Atlanta. Just use Rick and Shane as grunts and advisors.
 
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Carl just asked to go with the people looking for Carol's daughter and Dale says, "he has all of you to look after him, I'd say he's in good hands." Unfortunately Dale, you are talking about Rick and his decisions have a tendency to bite you in the butt. Good call.



 
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Those guns looked to be in good shape considering they had been lying out in the weather for who knows how long. Also, with no electricity to run gas pumps how do they keep getting gas for those vehicles? At some point wouldn't they have syphoned gas from every vehicle around?
 
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meeksfor3 said:
Those guns looked to be in good shape considering they had been lying out in the weather for who knows how long. Also, with no electricity to run gas pumps how do they keep getting gas for those vehicles? At some point wouldn't they have syphoned gas from every vehicle around?
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Yeah, the guns would have required a helluva lot of work to get them back in working order. Lot's of issues with things like that on TWD, but it brings me back to a line in the old Mystery Science Theater 3000 theme song:

"If you're wondering how he eats and breathes
and other science facts (la la la),
Then repeat to yourself, "It's just a show,
I should really just relax"
 
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My hate for Coral has been ratcheted back up. Stupid little idiot ended up causing the deaths of countless people. He caused a huge butterfly effect. He just had to get the closeup of the deer and get himself shot.

That led to Otis wanting to make up for doing it and Shane snapping. Shane then shoots Otis leading to his death. Shane later takes Randal out to the woods and kills him. That leads to the eventual confrontation with Rick and Shane dying and the herd attacking the farm killing multiple others.

That doesn't even account for Coral harassing the zombie in the mud that later kills Dale. Losing Dale ends up costing the group their moral compass. No telling how many people the group kills because of that. One action by Coral could have ultimately caused the deaths of hundreds of people. More Coral bull crap yet to come.
 
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Bold prediction and complete guess: Carol dies this week.
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Its possible. This show is kind of like Lost, in that when a character finds redemption or resolve on an issue bothering them that usually means the end of the line for them. Carol looks like she's figured out that her friends are worth fighting (and dying) for, kind of giving her a personal redemption of her own demons. So, it wouldn't be a stretch for her to eat it and be a catalyst for Ezekiel to join Rick's fight.
 
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Bold prediction and complete guess: Carol dies this week.
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My own not-so-bold prediction. Sasha dies this week.

The actress that plays Sasha, Sonequa Martin-Green, has agreed to play the lead role on a new Star Trek series coming to CBS in May. This news has been on the interwebz since December. And since no one leaves TWD alive, her character has to die.
 
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Yea I wasn't crazy about this episode but didn't think it was the worst. We are basically gonna get filler episodes up till the season finale.
 
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Fear the Walking Dead (as stupid as the title is) >>>>>>>>>>> The Walking Dead
 
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Just a ton of stupid filler episodes this season, with the worst last week that seemed like it was 20 minutes after all the commercials. Haven't seen Negan (one of the only interesting characters at this point) in what feels like months. Just overall horribly slow and boring. If I wasn't so far invested in this stupid show I'd just call it off.

Was hoping we'd get to see the epic fight between the Survivors and whoever this season, but obviously that won't even come close to happening. Hell, they might extend that to taking up all of next season at this pace.
 
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I didn't think so. I thought last week's episode with Rick and Michonne galavanting around an old amusement park was probably the worst of the entire series. Just complete and total filler ********.
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To each his own. I thought last week's episode was far more entertaining, even though the plot was entirely unbelievable.

Speaking of unbelievable, any episode featuring King Ezekiel is terrible. I'm capable of suspending my disbelief, but pet tigers in the zombie apocalypse? No.
 
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I didn't think so. I thought last week's episode with Rick and Michonne galavanting around an old amusement park was probably the worst of the entire series. Just complete and total filler ********.
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I don't think that episode was all filler. Rick can't be 100% hardass all the time. That episode was a good way to show that Rick has some humanity left even though he is in kill em all mode against the saviors. You also got a glimpse that Rick may not want to be the leader anymore. That seemed to be his motive for wanting to stay out longer. He was sleeping, didn't have to worry about everyone around him, and he could just be happy. That episode added some layers to he and Michonne's characters.

Last week on the other hand, was runny diarrhea. All of that episode could have been three scenes:

Kingdom goes to make the drop, Richard sabotages it, Benjamin gets shot.

They take Benjamin to Carol's, he dies, Richard let's it slip that he's to blame, Morgan pieces it together without going crazy and having to find the cantaloupe.

Morgan kills Richard at the next drop, and goes his own path, telling Carol the truth about Negan.

That could have all been done in 15 minutes. We didn't need the exposition of Benjamin being too young to be a father. We already knew that from previous episodes. Didn't need beaten over the head with it, as soon as that conversation took place with Richard and Morgan, you knew Benjamin was a dead man. Didn't need the monologue that Richard gave Morgan after he died either. We were there. We saw how it was his fault the kid died. We don't need a recap of how it was supposed to go down after Morgan figured it out. That was probably 10 minutes of the episode wasted on nothing but exposition.
 
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Interesting perspective. I feel the exact same way about the previous episode.
 
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Why couldn't Morgan just be mad at the guy but not Kill him? Now you're down two fighters instead of one.
 
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I think he would have rather died trying to save the Kingdom than just die to start a cause. I don't think he planned on wanting to die in combat, but if it happened so be it. Since he couldn't get Ezekiel to fight he figured he would give up his life in that instance to start the revolution against the Saviors.

Had the fight gone down, I think he would have done everything he could to kill as many Saviors and save as many people in the Kingdom that he could. He wasn't going out there on the battlefield just to die. He wouldn't have made things right with his family if he did.

So I agree the whole thing with Morgan killing him was unnecessary. If they wanted to go that route then they should have waited until the battle was over and while everyone is happy they won the battle, Morgan randomly just goes over and kills him. They already had an excuse for Morgan to snap with the kid he liked being killed and then killing Richard after the battle could have calmed his anger.
 
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To each his own. I thought last week's episode was far more entertaining, even though the plot was entirely unbelievable.

Speaking of unbelievable, any episode featuring King Ezekiel is terrible. I'm capable of suspending my disbelief, but pet tigers in the zombie apocalypse? No.
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The pet tiger that obviously turned vegetarian is nowhere near as off theme and silly as the junkyard Mad Max crew that forgot English in 2 years. I've forgiven a lot on TWD but that was insultingly stupid.
 
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Finale thoughts. All out war is coming, great battle as far as visuals, all our heroes teaming up together, the tiger being a badass, etc.

One major complaint. Name one major or even minor character on either side that died in the battle? You might be thinking a long time as I cannot think of one. I thought tonight might be a good time to send off SImon, Negan's right hand mind, but I love Steven Ogg (he was a legend as Trevor Phillips in GTA5) so not upset he is still around. None of the minor Alexandrian characters died (Tobin or random short hair girl or Aaron's bf), and none of Negan's minor minions died (mean eyed Aryat girl and on and on). Just saying.

Good finale though. I liked it.
 
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I didn't like the beating over the head that Sasha was gonna die. I mean, I get it was nice seeing the flashbacks to see Abraham again, but it wasn't needed, and it ate about 20 minutes of screen time that could have went to something else, or just make the finale an hour. We knew when she asked for the bottle of water in the coffin, and how she answered Eugene when he said people that are about to die are from their own actions that she had made the decision to eat it.

Other than that, I was fine with tonight. It begins the all out war storyline, and things are about to pick up.
 
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herodotus6 said:
It said "DIDN'T KNOW" on it. My guess is it was left by Dwight.
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That was the figurine that Dwight made that Daryl took from him in the woods when they first met, then he got it back when they robbed Daryl of his stuff and went back to Negan, then Daryl found it in his room when he escaped the sanctuary.
 
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