Only in your mind. Your "explanations" are extrapolations, at best. You just can't admit to yourself that the show's writing is lazy lazy lazy.

They mentioned that Shane had a "cameo" appearance in Season 3, but I must have blinked and missed it. Was that the episode when Rick was outside the prison gates, when the Governor was shooting up the place?

What, like how Rick became the leader after the first day?

Nope. They're legitimate explanations. A show should not spell out every single detail of every single scene...it's like people are afraid to use their minds to fill in the blanks.

Nah, it was in the mid-season finale, during the shootout...Rick hallucinated one of the Woodbury soldiers shooting at him as being Shane. It was definitely missable.

Exactly! I would've think they would've gravitated more toward Shane...but whatever.

I think Shane was, in a way. When Rick came along, Shane was definitely upsurped. That caused 1/2 of his resentment towards Rick...the other half was, of course, over Lori.

Did any of you catch the sneak peek at next week's episode on Talking Dead? Ain't that the pot calling the kettle black? LOL.

Agreed completely.

Yeah, our reaction was, "Wow, if HE'S saying that, you know Rick is too far gone." lol

I guess my mind doesn't work well enough to fill in the blank of how there's NO zombies to be seen, then suddenly, slow-moving lurching zombies are an inch away from someone's face, with no warning whatsoever. Every goddamn time. Seriously, it's like they appear out of thin air when the script wills it.

What, you've never seen a ninja zombie? There's a reason.

right - i could maybe live with the one coming from behind the tree. could have been stationary, sitting, who knows. But then the other 2 are right in her face immediately. Which means she should/would have seen them when she walked into the woods and/or leaned against the tree.

i would think if i lived in the zombie apocalypse, my head would be on a swivel 24/7.

And you're right, this is not the first time zombies have materialized out of thin air.

Yeah, zombies popping out of nowhere always annoys me. Unfortunately, it's common in any zombie related movie or show.

I think its easier to just accept that its for dramatic effect and unrealistic, opposed to trying to explain why it could really happen. Those reasons just end up being ridiculous.

It could be explained that Andrea was so focused on the approaching vehicle, that she was distracted to the point of not noticing impending zombies.

It's Andrea, okay? Suspend disbelief.

Agree with you, fuman - i'm fine with suspending belief for dramatic effect.

But the attitude presented in this thread ("I can explain anything!") is getting ridiculous.

This was my logic. Thin? Perhaps...but not impossible. Plus if there were only two, it wouldn't even be a big deal...they're easy kills when she's not grabbed from behind by one.

Present me with something that can't be explained and I won't have said attitude.

Just finished this last night. Wow, this was definitely a heavy Andrea-centric episode. It was an okay episode. I don't think it was as boring as some here made it out to be.

Finally Andrea realizes the Governor is a psycho.

What was the point of the flashback between Andrea and Michonne? I don't think it really added anything to the story.

I did enjoy the burnt walkers still alive. Some really cool effects there by Nicotero and his team.

There's plenty that can't be explained if you aren't allowed to use "That doesn't need to be explained!" as a defense.

The special effects - the money put into production, etc, the Zombies - they've always been top notch! I mean, if they had been cheesy-looking zombies, I don't think I would have given this series a fair chance.

Coming up with terrible explanations doesn't make it better.

Now that's a matter of opinion, whether the explanation is terrible or not. To me, it's not at all.

Like I said, the one unexplainable thing to me is that everyone has pinpoint precision with a gun.

Sweet.

That's not unexplainable. Practice makes perfect, and you gotta figure these people have been practicing for a year or more already.

And before you gripe about Carl shooting zombie-Shane in the head from 1000 feet away (or whatever, it was far), um...uh... ok, that was unexplainable. Beginner's luck? I don't believe the family, or Shane, taught him how to shoot, and even if they did and I don't remember, nobody gets that good that quick.

Even as a fan of this show, and the Living Dead genre, this very thing has always made my eyes roll when it happens. It makes no sense at all.

Two words:

Windows. Down.


Explain that bitches!

a car going 30 mph really isn't in much danger of having a zombie stick his head through the open window to take a chomp out of you. (Just sayin') I'm sure they want to conserve gas, that's why they don't run the air conditioner.

I do remember Rick and Lori arguing over whether Carl should learn to shoot, and I think they started teaching him...but...exactly.

There are definitely things here and there that are unrealistic or unexplainable....but not to the extent people say, and not the things that people are complaining about.