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mmmcammy said:
As for Rick's hand, I imagine they just want us to think he's going to lose it. Having Rick actually lose his hand would be a nightmare for filming, so I highly doubt that's going to happen.
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Just look at Agents of Shield. Fakest, fake hand, hand cover ever.
 
chaingunsofdoom said:
Maybe it's just me, but logistically, they get cornered and then go up on the dumpster and then look over the fence behind them, which has a few walkers... OK. But I am not sure if we ever see how many were there? Anything around 20, they could've handled. Please correct me if I'm mis-remembering.
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I was almost screaming at them to get on the fence and climb laterally to the building or the trees.
 
adgy-san said:
I was almost screaming at them to get on the fence and climb laterally to the building or the trees.
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My thoughts exactly. Although they would've had to crawl along the top of the razor wire fence to get to the trees. I would've tried to do that.
 
When Glen called Rick a "dumbass", an obviously play to the first time they talked, I thought Oh crap, he's gonna die. But then when I saw it I just didn't by it. There was no reason Glen would have to wrap up Nicholas and fall together when Nicholas was facing him. It is not like TWD to not get maximum mileage out of every Cast member death. (See Noah) When they die, there is no guesswork involved.
 
How ‘The Walking Dead’ Can Fix The Terrible Mess It’s Created With The Glenn Situation
http://uproxx.com/tv/2015/10/walking-dead-glenn-death-situation/

Still, most signs point to the fact that Glenn survives, which has created a huge predicament for the series, best summed up by Lenika Cruz over on The Atlantic:


This circus feels like an abuse of the entire narrative concept of the cliffhanger—to create suspense and tension and momentum—because viewed alone, “Thank You” seems unambiguous about Glenn’s status. AMC retroactively turned the episode into a cliffhanger, which will play badly whether Glenn is alive or not: If he’s indeed dead, many fans got their hopes up for nothing. If he’s alive, “Thank You” will go from being a beautiful, tragic farewell to a bait and switch.

In other words, they’re damned if they do, and damned if they don’t. There seems to be no way out of this.

Except maybe there is one scenario that will give everyone what they want in this situation.

Remember the redshirt Alexandrian from the episode, who was infected and was trying to get back to Alexandria to say goodbye to his wife before he turned? He wrote a note to Michonne, and Michonne told him to keep it because he was going to make it back. He didn’t. He got pinned against a gate and devoured by zombies with that note still in his pocket.

Some people saw echoes of Glenn’s story in the redshirt’s backstory, as he relayed it to Michonne:


“After I thought I was dead and gone, [Betsy] was my first friend. Then she was more. She made me more. Even better than how I used to be. But if I could make it back, I’d want to say goodbye. Tell her that finding her in all this, that was everything.”

Sound familiar?

But what if Glenn does get to go back? What if he gets to complete the redshirt’s story and go back and tell Maggie goodbye, that “finding her in all this, that was everything?”

Let’s say that Glenn does manage to sneak under the dumpster, and then someone new comes along to save him. Let’s say that someone is Jesus, the guy with whom he was spotted filming on set. Jesus and Glenn then go back and help Rick, Abraham, and Daryl lure all the walkers away from Alexandria, but in the midst of that, Glenn is infected, just like the redshirt Alexandrian.

But, he doesn’t die. He has enough time to get back to Alexandria. To get back and say goodbye. To get back and return the stop watch to Maggie that Hershel gave him when he gave Glenn his blessing to marry Maggie.


After Glenn says goodbye, after he gives her that stop watch, after telling her that she’s his “everything,” after Maggie tells Glenn that she’s pregnant, then Maggie has to kill Glenn before he turns.

That’s a truly tragic farewell.

It would be devastating.

Producer and special effects guru Greg Nicotero basically said that this season plays out in one day, harkening back to the siege by the Wolves on Alexandria, which all happened within the same amount of time it took for Carol to bake a casserole. We’re in the middle of that day; the day is far from over. There’s more in this storyline to tell, and we will see Glenn again. Gimple said as much, and Nicotero reaffirmed to EW:


It’s not like we’re trying to be sneaky; we’re trying to preserve the story because we want the fans to have the greatest viewing experience possible. That’s why when everybody’s like “Is Glenn dead?” — Scott already said we will see Glenn again throughout the course of the season, but we want the audience to go on this journey. We want them to discover our storyline as we go.

Ultimately, I think, the journey through the day includes meeting Jesus, and it will also include Glenn’s death. If it doesn’t happen here, it will happen later in the day, but not before Glenn gets to say goodbye.

A death in which Glenn says goodbye to Maggie — as Scott Gimple suggested — “completes the story.” It completes the redshirt’s story. It closes the loop on the stop watch. It means that Maggie gets to say goodbye to Glenn, unlike the situation with her sister, Beth, when she just missed saying goodbye. The viewers get some real closure on Glenn’s death, but we don’t get cheated out of it.

In other words, season six is the story about the day Glenn died. It’s just going to take a few more episodes to finish that story. Or, as Scott Gimple put it to TVLine: “I hope that the audience will just wait to see the greater story and see how it all plays out. They’re kind of stopping in the middle of the movie… but we’re still in the middle of the movie.”
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That schmaltzy fanfic JD posted three posts up is just awful and would be worse than either basic possibility (Glenn is alive, Glenn is dead) (insert Schrodinger's Cat reference). No one cares that the rando with the note died without giving the note away. His story doesn't need to be finished. The zombie apocalypse is a tough gig. Glenn we do care about, and why can't the show let someone make a miraculous getaway? It's earned it by all the hammers it has dropped on other people.

But most of all, I am nauseated by the use of my new favorite trope, the 'I passed my DNA on, so it is ok that I am dead', which currently annoys me more than the 'cut back and forth between dude in a house and agents about to raid the house then - plot twist - it is a different house' and the 'side view of conversation in car then oncoming T-bone accident ensues' combined. After another recent program did it THREE TIMES in killing off most of its cast in the last two episodes, I never, ever need to see it again.

Actually, the most Walking Dead thing that could happen would be for Glenn to get away from the zombies and then get killed at the end of the episode by a human.
 
jerseydevil said:
‘Walking Dead’ Star Norman Reedus to Headline Motorcycle Series for AMC
http://collider.com/norman-reedus-amc-motorcycle-series/

Ruh roh...is he leaving TWD? We riot...unless he gets his own show?
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Doubtful. Getting a reality show hardly means he does not have enough time to be in a real show still, especially a real show that is only 16 or however many episodes, especially one that likes to do entire episodes without major characters.

Jon Snow, Jamie Lannisters, and Daario all had time to make terrible movies in between seasons of Game Of Thrones.
 
KingInTheWest said:
Doubtful. Getting a reality show hardly means he does not have enough time to be in a real show still, especially a real show that is only 16 or however many episodes, especially one that likes to do entire episodes without major characters.

Jon Snow, Jamie Lannisters, and Daario all had time to make terrible movies in between seasons of Game Of Thrones.
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No joke on that Jon Snow bad movie! It was horrible! I got bored and watched it on Glowgaze one night
 
That Preacher series is either going to be the biggest disappointment or the greatest thing ever! There is no middle ground!!!
 
Regarding TWD - I really enjoyed the episode regardless of whether we heard anything on Glenn (I have come to believe that AMC is going to tease the heck out of that and we won't find out for awhile). I finally understand fully where Morgan is now coming from and it will really make things interesting going forward. I now truly feel that Morgan dies this season. If the series has shown anything it is that those who show compassion are those that get sacrificed. Now I see how it will really end up being a battle between Rick/Carol and Morgan for the rest of the season. Nicely done by Gimple.

And for Eastman, played by John Carroll Lynch, .... WOW! That guy is really a great actor and it was a great portrayal.
 
adgy-san said:
Same here. On the one hand, I appreciate them letting us know it's not going to be like the comic.

On the other hand, it looks NOTHING like the comic...
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The only thing keeping me from really worrying is that Ennis was invoved, and he signed off on the changes. I'm not sure if that was all lip service, but I don't get the feeling that Ennis is one of those guys that will back something just cause he is getting paid. I will reserve judgement till I actually watch, but yeah...the lack of visual fence posts is unsettling.
 
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