Josh-da-man

I think the walkers primarily hunt through sight and sound, though once movement or noise catches their attention, they can pick out their prey through sight and smell. Just covering yourself with zombie blood and guts isn’t enough to mask oneself; they can still see through that deception like when the panicky kid got eaten alive when Alexandria was overrun a few seasons back.

I think the mud move by Eugene and Rosita was a desperate attempt to camoflage themselves from both sight and smell in that ditch. It might have made them look like dead walkers, too.

Josh-da-man

Looks like the Saviours have assimilated into the other communities. The blonde lady Saviour was on Alexandria’s ruling council.

Probably no working batteries to power the walkie-talkies. We’re a good eight or nine years into the zombie apocalypse, and I think batteries shelf lives max out at about ten years. They will have used up what they have by now even if they still worked.

Also, it’s possible the herd was following them. Eugene mentioned that the herd must have done a 180, and we later learned that they were actively searching for Eugene and Rosita.

“Magic perimeter.” — Funny you should mention that.

Coral

I assumed they saw Eugene already up on the tower as he was making some noise, along with Rosita below... so they could've just stayed at the bottom salivating until something else distracted them away.

I thought this as well. Maybe the explosion made it beyond repair.
Or maybe they didn't have any more dynamite to build a new one

Bill Needle

Jason

The bridge was important to Rick. He thought he could calm the Sanctuary down and make it a viable part of the greater community. After the events leading up to the bridge explosion, the rest of them definitely took the attitude of "fuck that bridge."

If the walkers are becoming sentient (or re-sentient? self re-aware?), will they become partners with the humans by the end of all this?

Abob Teff

Yes. But somebody will try to sabotage the sentient walker/human relationship as they are on the cusp of building a new society. Wait, that’s Z Nation.

MikahC

Now that I've stumbled on some things, just a quick shout out to book readers for not spoiling things.

General Zod

Good thing they were heavy sleepers. Enough to walk into the room and douse it with whatever liquid; Apparently the only thing that can wake that bunch is someone removing a match from their lips.

boogieman03

Fucking brutal by Carol. Loved it.

VinVega

Ok, so the group we're following runs into another group and will struggle with them and eventually beat them. Am I missing something?

andicus

After the talking walker ending, I'm really looking forward to the next episode. That hasn't happened for a looooong time!

ben12

That was creepy as fuck.

Josh-da-man

I have a feeling that the last line of the midseason is going to be

And the final scene of the season will be

Also looks like Henry will be getting Carl’s arc from the comics and all that entails, which means that Carol will likely get Rick’s part, too. Which will be really interesting if it plays out the same way it did in the comics...

raven56706

just making sure

Jason

hdnmickey

It will be interesting to see just how they play out this talking walker thing given that no character or fan of the show should believe for a second that a zombie on this series could do anything other than act on pure instinct.

It is just me or does that boy look far too young to be Rick's kid if the time jump was 5-6 years?

Bill Needle

Even accounting for gestation he would have to be kindergarten age. I don't remember how big he was, but I recall she was holding him like a toddler. Maybe that just made him appear younger. Regardless, it was a cheap manipulation and I couldn't care less about Rick's kid(s). Or their mother(s).

d2cheer

The fact that they are not walkers should make that pretty clear.

hdnmickey

It's possible hat they will reveal the kid is not Rick's. Just like Judith! But that boy was way too young to believably be Rick's.

hdnmickey

The point was that I hope they don't spend any time having characters believe that walkers could do anything but act on inistnct. It should be immediately obvious to everybody that they are not actually walkers.

windom

The kid's name is RJ though. I'm guessing it stands for Rick Junior.

Judith should really be called Judith Walsh.

andicus

If I understand what is above, correctly...

Thanks for the fucking spoilers.

hdnmickey

Wasn't trying to say defintively that they wouldn try and pass of that specfic boy as Rick's. Just that it makes no sesne if they do.

andicus

I was talking about the talking walkers. If that's just speculation, fair enough. If it comes from knowledge from reading the comics, it would take a fucking idiot to just post it in the open.

I couldn't care less about the Rick/Michonne child parentage.

collven

They've been talking about the talking walkers since before this season even started. The trailer for the season highlighted that. Surely you didn't actually think they were sentient walkers, did you?