It didn't necessarily kill them, there's a good chance plenty will survive. Rick's goal was just to keep the herd from marching across the bridge to Hilltop. Unfortunately it means someone down river will have to deal with them (we saw that in FTWD in the flashback to Dorie's cabin, when all of the walkers were turning up in the river and he and "Laura" explored upstream to find the damaged bridge). |
I don't know if this quite got to the jump the shark degree, but i get your point. |
Glen under the dumpster was the jumping the shark moment. |
Dp. It's not that they're mixed raced. It's the overstating of colorblindness in the form of every couple is mixed. It is heavy handed and pointless. |
So it bothers you that there are more mixed-race couples now. You would have been more comfortable if Jessie hadn't died so she and Rick could stay a couple, and if Carol had stayed with Tobin. And wasn't the show a whole lot better in the beginning when there was only one token black character and you knew that if they introduced a second one, one of them would have to die? |
| Andrea and the Governor totally made more sense as a couple than Abraham and Sasha, right? |
You're missing the point. The producers of the show are overemphasing the colorblindness. It has nothing to do with my feelings on race. It has everything to do with feeling like the showrunners think we're so dense, we can't tell that race has no signifcance in the zombie apocalypse. |
Couples make no sense at all! In the Hierarchy of Needs, food and shelter come first. Intimate relationships are lower on the list. No one really has consistant food and shelter, yet everyone's paired up. Um, ok. |
But poor Darryl really needs to get a piece. |
Not everyone is paired up, far from it. But to your point, most of the coupling we have seen has arisen at times of greater settlement and security. Glenn/Maggie got together on the farm. Rick/Jessie, Rick/Michonne, Abraham/Sasha, Carol/Tobin, and Tara/Denise all got together after the group settled in Alexandria. Carol/Ezekiel got together after settling in the Kingdom post-war. Bob/Sasha and Abraham/Rosita are the only relationships I can think of that came together on the road; Bob/Sasha were very short-lived, and I never got the sense that Abraham was all that emotionally attached to Rosita (and then he broke up with her for Sasha once the group was settled in Alexandria). |
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My son has read all the comics. He was so angry at last night's episode with Rick's "method" of exiting the show. It didn't follow the comic and was "completely stupid." I found his reaction amusing....more than the episode.
Deus ex machina! Bigly. |
I actually never noticed or stopped to think about racial makeup of couples in this show. So I don’t think it’s heavy handed. I do remember years ago when it seemed like there could only be one back man in the show. Now that was terrible. |
Way to virtue signal how color blind you are but you literally would have to be an imbecile not to notice. I thought it was very heavy handed as well. |
No. I’m actually surprised I didn’t notice before reading it here. I just didn’t. |
| Go back to the first (or second) episode of this season. Rick is walking through the bridge repair encampment and, as he goes along, he sees various couples. Without exception, every single one is interracial and there's even an interracial lesbian couple. Jerry even has a girlfriend (how does he maintain his weight?). This is a one minute scene. Heavy handed af. |