I am so glad you mentioned the ipad thing because IT IS MAKING ME CRAZY. I AM PRETTY SURE IT IS GOING TO INTERRUPT ME TYPING THIS COMMENT AS IT OFTEN LOADS AFTER THE PAGE HAS FULLY LOADED AND WE ALL KNOW YOU CAN START TYPING YOUR COMMENT OR WHATEVS WHILE IT IS STILL LOADING.
I am so glad your pups is doing better!
I had ONE THOUSAND meetings today (1,000 = 4) but they were all pretty good. The one bad thing was my tights got a run on my way to work so I had to take them off and throw them away in the bathroom and since we just got Nor'eastered going home bare legged was less than great. The most hilarious part of my day was finding out I have my own personal travel budget, by virtue of being the only person in my office/budget line. I wore my Halloween costume shirt as a work shirt (Benedict Cumbercostume, you pay dividends!) and only one person noticed the slight fake blood stain I didn't get out completely. I am going to drink a bunch of beers and watch Jonathan Banks on Parks and Rec soon, and right now I am going to watch the NBA on TNT because the combination of Shaq, Sir Charles, Kenny the Jet, and basketball commentary is an American treasure. The End.
I am not in NYC or New Jersey so I honestly can't complain THAT much but today was exhausting! Remember that second interview I found out about last week? That was today, and it was more of a presentation (by me) than an interview. By "more of" I mean that is exactly what it was, I had to prepare and give a presentation in the middle of the day in between doing my current job.
I actually thought it was a pretty cool second interview concept, but considering I have spent the past two days grading a hellish nightmare of an exam (after spending all of last week grading exams), it was kind of stressful. And I have a meeting tomorrow that I am completely unprepared for, hooray!
But the best part of the day was definitely the SURPRISE PHONE INTERVIEW for a job I applied to two months ago. Uhhh, great!
This week was so terrible until today! Today was fine. A meeting I thought was going to be awful was the opposite of awful! No one bothered me. I got called back for a second interview after telling myself I just didn't get the job. And I have tomorrow off, and then it's Halloween weekend yaaaaaaaay!
I felt like there was something significant in Lydia demanding that he swear on the lives of his children that he won't kill her. Not that I think she will (although the lady is bonkers), but it was definitely foreboding.
I moved in January and decided not to get cable, and it turns out that the effort required to obtain this show from the internet is enough to make me decide to stop watching this show, ONCE AND FOR ALL.
Additionally, I envisioned a future where, in my court hearing with AMC for illegally downloading their Greatest Hit of All Time, my impassioned rant against the show leads to me being found in contempt of court and jailed for 30 days. In my first 48 hours in prison, I am made the punching bag of the cell block's kingpin, a former(?) drug lord named Fontina. After a week of Fontina's abuse, I momentarily black out in the cafeteria and two days later, in the infirmary, learn that I brutally stabbed Fontina 62 times with a sharpened spork, in full view of hundreds of inmates and dozens of guards. I am quickly found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. However, I develop an aptitude for smuggling items in and out of the prison and by greasing the right palms and accumulating favors I am paroled after about thirty years. I move to LA and begin working in a grocery store. One day, a middle-aged man with a vague familiarity passes me in the dairy section. I stop stacking egg cartons as a feeling of intense loathing and, strangely, boredom washes over me.
"Carl."
I grab a gallon of milk and sling it at "Carl." It hits him on the back of the head and he stumbles, slightly dazed. However, my years in prison left me unaware of Carl's affinity for survival training and MMA fighting. Whispers in the hallways of casting agencies and talent management firms across Hollywood say that young Carl was so deeply disturbed in his early career by his work on a show about the immediacy of death and the futile struggle to survive in the face of carnage that somehow--somehow!--still managed to be the most boring show on television, he has committed himself to being entirely prepared for the zombie apocalypse his bones know is coming. It will happen. And Carl will make sure it's a fucking thrilling adventure, that's for damn sure.
It's also why he is professionally known as Carl.
As Carl utilizes decades of training to beat me to death against a pile of shattered and shattering eggs, I can think only of the choice that brought me here. I could have just watched Parenthood. That show was so charming. Such good acting. Craig T. Nelson died years ago in that horrible CostCo explosion; I'd be fine.
I was hoping that Shane shot Dale in the woods. Yes, Shane is a crazy murderer, but Dale's weird judgy making people's decisions for them thing is really irritating. Also, Shane has actually done a pretty good job lying about killing Otis so from Dale's perspective Shane should really only be guilty of being vaguely weird and creepy and if that's a reason to yell at someone and hide their guns then Dale needs to spend some time yelling at a mirror. Also I do not like looking at Dale's face.
Glen's speech about forgetting that the zombies are dangerous because he has spent some time in relative safety was actually a highlight of the episode for me. It rationalized some of the group's behavior and was pretty believable! It also was the hands-down best argument for killing the zombies in the barn.
I was not as in love with the ending as everyone else.
So many people were surprised by Sophia in the barn! SO MANY. You guys, let me share with you my simple formula for predicting Sophia in the Barn: Think of the worst, most contrived way to end this insufferable subplot that could still be considered a "twist." BAM, Zombie Sophia in the Barn. I am pretty sure this prediction strategy will work for every aspect of this fucking show.
Also, the morning after pill is just a very large dose of oral contraceptives (birth control pills), intended to prevent ovulation so that no egg is released to be fertilized. It definitely will NOT cause an already developing fetus to abort.
Now I can't stop thinking about how insane it is that ANYONE would find Herschel/Maggie's argument to keep the barn zombies under wraps reasonable AT ALL! They're zombies! They'll kill you! Hell, maybe one day they WILL cure zombieism and then won't we all be happy that Mrs. Herschel is back in our lives. But there is DEFINITELY no cure right now and if they get out of that barn they will KILL ALL OF YOU.
- It is flat-out absurd that Herschel apparently believes that once you cure the whole zombie thing, people's arms just pop right back into place and their skin grows back and they get a jawbone again. I can appreciate that he is clearly delusional and the writers' aren't (necessarily) trying to tell us his belief is totally reasonable (I guess), but they also aren't giving us any understanding of why Herschel would be this heavily in denial.
- You "got a lead" about Sophia being in a random subdivision, Shane? REALLY?
- Not only did Dale know Lori was pregnant, he also basically guessed that she and Shane were banging. Glorious Leader Grimes is literally the last person to know anything.
I actually think that is the big "secret" the CDC dude whispered into Grimes' ear, that everyone will become a zombie when they die, regardless of how they die. Which is going to create hilarious logical inconsistencies, what with all the bodies in the cars on the highway, etc.
Ooooh Videogamegum.
After reading that Skyrim is basically going to get me pregnant and the kid is going to be a unicorn-dolphin hybrid with the power to travel through time AND renew Community AND give me a million dollars every day, I was slightly disappointed to discover it is basically Fallout 3 with dragons in terms of gameplay (the level up noise is even the same!). However, werttrew, after 20-ish hours I am kind of in love with the leveling system (the one big change I've noticed from Fallout mechanics), hopefully it grows on you too!
Ahhhh the opening sequence next week will be Glenn finding Sophia hiding in the hayloft and they will escape together (maybe Andrea will sacrifice herself to save them!) and there she was, she was in the barn the WHOLE TIME someone kill me.
I'd argue that the reason the LOST podcasts were successful (and they did do them weekly by the end, just not always with Carlton and Damon), is because they used the podcasts to stoke viewers' interests in the show's various mysteries.
The Walking Dead has the mystery of where Sophia is (no one cares), why are there zombies in the barn (this has basically been spelled out, Hershel is holding out for a cure and considering a cure will probably just result in the zombified dying, that is stupid), and what did the CDC guy say to Grimes (if this is what I think it is, I am going to laugh and laugh and laugh and then throw my TV out the window; anyway the show has not played this up enough for it to really be a going interest for most viewers).
So the mysteries aren't particularly discussion-worthy, the characters are mostly just plot-propulsion mechanisms, and I'm assuming they don't want to talk about the comic too much soooooo....
No, it's supposed to be "discrete." The Walking Dead is a discrete feminine hygiene product, that's why you have to ask for it by name when you send some kid you barely know to pick it up for you at the pharmacy.
I just don't know you guys.
At least something happened? It was pretty awesome when that fat dude got eaten.
I am developing the opinion that this show has two main problems:
1) The pacing is WAY TOO SLOW. The characters spend all their time recounting things that the audience watched happen (massive waste of the audience's time!) over and over because NOTHING ELSE HAS ACTUALLY HAPPENED.
2) Every single character's behavior is determined by what will advance the plot (and LORD the writers are running a long con here). Sure, they adhere to basic archetypes and have random pointless anecdotes to shore up this "characterization", but in the end their decisions are dictated by what propels the plot forward. This includes the zombies.
Ahhh this show makes me so angry but I love zombies and I WANT it to be good. I'm pretty sure I said this last season but for the love of Jesus, hire a story editor.
Another review pointed out the other thing that made me twitch! When Rick and the vet were having their little heart-to-heart and the vet was all, "Oh, people are just overreacting. Remember when AIDS happened? NO BIGGIE."
I think now, in the light of day and sobriety he was referring to how AIDS isn't easily transmitted and a lot of people were overly concerned with transmission risk when AIDS first became news, but at the time, I definitely screamed at my TV, "THEY DIDN'T FIX AIDS."
I actually rewound it and rewatched it because I could not fucking believe that was really what was happening.
Also he told Grimes he would bring back the gun in the same condition he received it or something? Good, because Grimes was really worried you would get his gun dirty?
Not only did Grimes give the fat guy a gun for absolutely no reason, fat guy then put the gun in the back of his truck (!!!) and then takes his hunting rifle (the one he shot Carl with) into the cabin with him. And Shane, of course, looks at him like "why are you bringing the rifle you shot Carl with? WHY IS IT NOT IN THE BOTTOM OF A LAKE FOR THE CRIME IT HAS COMMITTED?" and fat guy says, "It's the only gun I have."
WE LITERALLY JUST WATCHED SOMEONE GIVE YOU ANOTHER GUN. AHHHHksldjfsudyferfhnjdfvhuo;dfbyhsrduth;e;rohgdgbdfjgksdf.
Also, when Lori, Daryl, etc. (ughhh I am learning their names) got back to the RV and then proceeded to recount everything we had watched up until that point, to remind us of the first ten minutes of the show? UGHHHHHHHHHH.
What's the over/under on us ever hearing Sophia mentioned ever again?
Finally:
Daryl: "Woah woah woah! You can't just get on that horse!"
Me, in my house: "Why am I watching a show where this is even a thing that is said."
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