You could get a kaboom if you waited long enough. You want the propane to be very thoroughly mixed with air in a cloud. Of course, that’s not what happened in the Walking Dead.
corsair
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Yup - you’d need some kind of enclosed space or dump so much of the gas out at once that the gas explodes rather than just flames and that further ruptures the tank, which then lets in air which causes a further explosion. But hey, they went step farther than TV productions usually go, so I thought it a nice touch (beyond good luck aiming one of those rockets). I loved the flying flaming fricassee of zombies for what it was.
Yeah, no question the flaming zombies were a nice touch.
He’s in the promotional video trailers released, so, yes.
corsair
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Since Rick promised to kill him with something other than a bullet, that would be a yes. And he’s bringing his knife and fork! And his Bobeque sauce…!
Oh, so we’re not done with Terminus stuff. Whatevs. I could tell throughout the episode they were setting Bob up hard to die.
Oh, and that was a frickin’ great last line, if you’re looking for a way to make me lose confidence in the writers again. Cannibalism is already funny as is. Actually trying to make it funny is pretty sad. chomp
-Tom
Vesper
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What I couldn’t figure out was - what exactly was he getting choked up about outside before he got smacked on the head?
Yeah I have a number of questions about the episode:
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Why was Bob acting all suicide-like (I got the feeling he was just going to walk off into the woods and disappear). What was going on with him?
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What secret is the preacher man hiding? What did he do that led to the scratches on the church (I thought at first maybe he simply locked himself in and left everyone outside to die but the church grounds seem way too neat and clean for that to have been the case).
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Why was Carol getting the car ready to go (was she thinking of taking off?)
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Who marked the tree and why? (related to point 2 perhaps?)
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Who was observing them in the beginning (Lennie James?)?
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Why do I find Gareth so annoying? (also: I hate it whenever a character says “let me explain myself to you” — I think of this as merely a lazy-ass way of shoehorning in some exposition).
I figured he actually got bit in the basement, but didn’t want to admit it to everyone else. As Charlatan mentioned, I thought he was going off to kill himself before he turned. Could result in some interesting food poisoning cases if I’m right.
That was my thinking too.
GregB
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That was the first thing my wife and I thought.
tgb123
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It could have been worse - he could have said something to Bob about having “good taste”. Plus, this is still television, so they had to make it painfully obvious what was going on. Short of “Hey Bob we’re eating your leg tight now”, I don’t know how that could have been handled and still be clear. Otherwise the Internet would be flooded this morning with posts starting with “OMG. What were they eating???”
When they showed Rick and part of the gang heading off to the food bank, my wife said “That’s right. Take all the Black people”. I laughed because she’s rarely that snarky.
OK, I guess I don’t remember what the last line was. I thought it was pretty obvious what was happening when the longer shot showed that Bob’s leg was gone.
JFrazer
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I’m assuming the marks in the trees are hunter/tracker marks. Since the Terminus folks are now “hunters”, they are using established hunting techniques. Not sure how they transitioned from “we just all hang out here and the prey comes to us” to “we’re such amazing hunters that not even Darryl can find our tracks”.
The episode was good…until the last 7 minutes. The last few seasons, including this one, have started relying on Big Bads as a central plot point. There looked to be enough material this season between trying to find out who is in the blue car with the cross on the back, figuring out how to get to Washington, heck, you could even have the Terminus people hounding them and picking off a straggler or too who didn’t stick with the group. But cannabalism? Did you really have to resort to that to show how “evil” the Big Bad is? I know it was in the comic, but come on, just seems lazy black vs white writing to me.
tgb123
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It was something like “You taste better than I thought you would”. Pretty amazing, considering that they were just cooking his leg on an open fire. I assume they are traveling sans spices and condiments.
corsair
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I was wondering about that myself. The whole mucking about in water where they could bite you unseen seemed risky ( not to mention the water itself seemed scarier than Ebola). And all that loved found at last seemed to be a set up for poor Bob to die. And if that is the case, does infection last through cooking and ingestion?
Probably. Think “Mad Cow”.
The storyline is right from the comics (both the Preacher and the “hunters”) so be careful if you want to avoid spoilers.
I’ll just answer the one question that’s not directly related to the comics - I think it was clear that Carol was going to leave the group again, before she was interrupted by Daryl, since she doesn’t really feel she fits anymore, despite Rick’s overtures.
Tom - as usual, the most cringe-inducing ridiculous elements are directly from Kirkman’s crappy writing in the comic. Kirkman also wrote the script for this TV episode.
I think this season is off to a great start though, and like where it’s going. It’s sticking to the comic more closely than in the past, but still adding elements and fleshing out motivations and characters to make the journey seem both more plausible and interesting.
corsair
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Here’s the bad writing. I simply don’t buy that these guys are hunters. Go with the officious, prim and proper cannibals, or the open country hunting cannibals. I don’t buy both - their whole system was built around attracting people and then dry-gulching them, a system so ordered they count their shots from each individual and have a spotless and ordered abbatoir. Super hunters? No. Just leave out the part that Daryl can’t find any signs or that anyone noticed anything. We’re being followed? Holy shit! Alarm bells! Be on guard, everyone - it’s the goddamn Termites who survived. Kind of an easy conclusion to make, given the events.
The episode was good…until the last 7 minutes. The last few seasons, including this one, have started relying on Big Bads as a central plot point. There looked to be enough material this season between trying to find out who is in the blue car with the cross on the back, figuring out how to get to Washington, heck, you could even have the Terminus people hounding them and picking off a straggler or too who didn’t stick with the group. But cannabalism? Did you really have to resort to that to show how “evil” the Big Bad is? I know it was in the comic, but come on, just seems lazy black vs white writing to me.
That’s the trouble with the comic - it’s lazy black and white writing. The TV series generally tries to put more into it, keep the outcome, but add some stab at subtlety or reason or backstory.
Us, too.
They left Tyrese behind with Judith, actually.
Yeah, me either. They’re supposed to be better than Darryl, who’s spent his whole life becoming the ultimate post-apocalyptic survivor? Not a chance–he’d find signs of their presence immediately. You don’t develop the skills it would take to evade him by luring your food into your pantry and then whacking it when it’s helpless.
