Just bitten, not scratched.
hepcat
4422
What about toilet seats? Any risk there?
How the zombie digestive tract works is not entirely clear. Particularly for the zombies that are lacking digestive tracts.
With no water to flush don’t think they’ve used a single toilet seat for a long, long time.
Pit toilets have seats. Though let’s be honest. If zombies crap, shambling to the pit toilet is probably beyond their cognition skills. The zombies are no doubt all filling their pants. Assuming they have pants.
hepcat
4426
There goes the 2nd hand clothing market in a post zombie world.
Shiiit. You just gotta repackage it as Miracle Zombie Invulnerability Cream.
While I was excited about the return of Beth this episode and glad to see her maturation into a post-apocalyptic bad-ass has continued, I was disappointed in the setup for the whole story this week. I know it’s nit-picking on a show that takes suspension of disbelief to new heights, but do the writers seriously expect us to believe that this enclave in the hospital smack in the center of Atlanta’s ground zero has survived for 18+ months on it’s own? First issue is that the whole place seems to be designed around a handful of cops kidnapping/“rescuing” people (mostly women it would seem) that they consider too weak or too damaged to be able to resist when their injuries are mended and their new status as veritable slave labor (complete with rapey undertones) is explained to them. Your supply of cops in this situation is going to be finite, and the rules would suggest that no new “strong” survivors are recruited as they would try to take over (ala Terminus), so at some point pretty quickly you would reach a point where the “workers” would be killing cops in their sleep, poisoning their food or otherwise openly rebelling. Then you take into account all the driving around they seem to do which somehow hasn’t attracted the attention of any of the other, larger and more nefarious groups of survivors. Even if they manage to avoid all that, they are right in the middle of Atlanta, which has already been shown to have been completely overrun with hordes of walkers. How they manage to come and go as they please, even with their fortified upper levels of the hospital, it quite the stretch of the imagination. Sorry, but this whole backstory just stretched believability too the max. Maybe if the hospital was somewhere more rural, and the cops were more numerous or something… Don’t even get me started on the crazy leader woman who believes she’s doing the right thing because rescue will be coming after 18+ months. Beth called her out on her crazy, but how messed up must the previous leader guy have been if she killed him and took over because he was “making a series of increasingly bad decisions that were getting people killed”. Wow.
Looking forward to seeing Carol and Daryl (and maybe Noah) busting Beth out of there. I suspect Carol and Daryl were lying in wait outside the hospital scouting when they saw Noah and Beth trying to escape. I am guessing that they grab Noah, he explains the situation, and they form a plan to get Carol on the inside. Too bad Gorman is already dead, it would have been fun to watch Daryl take him apart, though his death at the teeth of zombie Joan was poetic justice enough for me. What a bastard.
Looks like we will be seeing a Glenn and company episode before we’ll see another Beth episode. I assume there won’t be a Rick and company one in between since the last one ended with Daryl emerging from the woods, so they need to resolve the Beth thing before we see Rick and the gang again.
hepcat
4429
Wait, wasn’t that Daryl on the gurney in that final shot?
Gladguy
4430
Nope, Carol.
I was a bit perplexed, then after giving it some thought I figured the wound on Beth’s face was there to show the passage of time. She’s been in that hospital for a while by the time Carol shows up. I’m figuring that it’s Noah who comes out of the woods with Daryl at the end of the previous episode, and he explains the whole sitch, whereupon Carol and Daryl concoct this plan to get Carol inside so she can get all bad-ass and break Beth out.
hepcat
4431
Jeebus, really? I did not recognize her at all. I must be blind as a bat.
I was OK with the setup. Yeah, Atlanta is overrun, but I think only a few zombies at a time are aware that there’s anyone in there, and it’s pretty solidly fortified. Less clear is where they’re getting food. They showed some stuff on the roof, including what looked to be racks of drying jerky, but nothing like the full-scale agriculture. I don’t see them being able to forage much given how bad Atlanta is.
The company town setup was amusing to me, really. They’re pretending it’s not slave labor because the survivors “owe” the hospital people. I think the point of that story was that Head Female Cop kinda backed into the slave-holding business. She’s lying to herself about what they’re doing and why.
Yeah dude, get your eyes checked, unless you were watching in SD from 20 feet away, I guess. 😄
JFrazer
4434
[QUOTE=Gus_Smedstad;3659557]I was OK with the setup. Yeah, Atlanta is overrun, but I think only a few zombies at a time are aware that there’s anyone in there, and it’s pretty solidly fortified. Less clear is where they’re getting food. They showed some stuff on the roof, including what looked to be racks of drying jerky, but nothing like the full-scale agriculture. I don’t see them being able to forage much given how bad Atlanta is.
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There’s a scene with Noah and Beth in a room with a bunch of plants. It looks like a relatively large area with potted plants and grow-lights. I’m assuming they converted a chunk of the hospital in to an indoor agriculture center, but that’s speculation of course.
I think having to scavenge, with only some agriculture and livestock going on, explains why they’d be far enough away from Atlanta(the scavengers) to find Beth and Daryl. They probably have to cast a wider and wider net as the weeks go by.
I wasn’t clear on how the cops left to “patrol” and do things like save Beth? Or wheel in Carol? It sounds like there wasn’t any way out otherwise. At first I thought that was the key they needed, but now I’m just baffled?
I think that’s the key they needed to sneak out unnoticed; they had shots of the roof with guards on it, presumably guarding whatever is the main entrance.
Though admittedly, there seem to be walkers all over the area where they had their cars parked.
Eh, it’s not that there’s no way out, it’s just that getting out takes the cooperation of the “police”. I kind of assumed that they had some form of process like what the main group had at the prison or like the Termites were implied to have: make a commotion nearby and draw the walkers away from the entrance long enough to walk out in safety.
My assumption is that the “wards” couldn’t do that alone or even with a small group since not everyone would be able to get out and it would make too much noise in any case.
One explanation is that Daryl and carol cut up that fence to draw out defenders.
Edit: nope I am wrong. They specifically mention the basement level is crawling
That’s their waste disposal system.
It is really odd and I hope they expand upon the hospital setup more in the next episode. Why were there walkers in the parking lot where the policemen park their cars? It seems silly not to have fortified that area somehow. How do they get injured people up to the third floor with no working elevator, or get them out of the cars for that matter if walkers are all over the grounds and the first floor. We’re missing something, obviously there is a secure entrance somewhere that Beth and Noah could not use because it’s guarded, but it would be nice to see it rather than jut be left wondering…
