I thought last night's episode was pretty good.  Good to have some good old fashioned zombie killing action.

Glad to see they located a bunch of guns, but I've always thought the premise of guns being hard to find was kind of dumb.  There are 300 million guns in the US (not counting military equipment), and you would assume everyone that could arm themselves in a zombie apocalypse would and that military facilities would be quickly looted.  I would think that a lot of time when you killed a zombie or found a dead body you would find a gun on them or nearby.

To me it would be the ammo that would be in short supply and hard to find.  Re-loader kits should be fairly easy to come by, and finding used casings and casting lead bullets shouldn't be hard.  But I would think black powder would quickly become the rare commodity (as well as unused rounds) and thus a guy like Eugene that could create more gunpowder would be indispensable.

I always thought Negan's surprise that someone could crimp their own bullet was kind of dumb.  I'm not a hard core gun guy but I know several friends that have reloader kits and sometimes make their own bullets/shells.

I agree with all of that and have thought the same.

However, reloading is an exact science and takes practice to get it right. 

Anybody back in on the second half of the season?

Last night was pretty decent, but it looks like this half of the season will be a total build up and the war might begin at the end of the season.


















Also, anybody think we might see an infection and a handless Rick soon?

I didn't have a problem with this episode.  I was glad to finally see them jump from place to place and allow me to see everyone, and not just focus on one group per episode.

It was also nice to see Rick regrow his cajones and start making a plan...even better when Daryl handed him his beloved Colt Python.  I've hung on all season, although very critically, in the hopes of seeing the group back together and forming a plan to rid themselves of Negan.

So it was all brought back together in a nice fashion.  I have no worthwhile complaints about that episode.

Wow...Negan is a bad guy...haven't we covered that?

I guess this episode was marginally better than the past 5, but not by much.

I see Negan's people and I keep thinking, they can't stand the guy, why not just overthrow him.  It's not that hard and they have the numbers.  If he died, they have supplies already and a network to continue gathering. 

I loved seeing Rick for like 5 minutes.  Wow, does he have much of a role this season?

Michonne/Rosita are redeeming simply because they aren't taking any crap and rolling over to die.

Did anybody else find that episode to be mostly craptastic?

I understand the need to build the suspense and fill in the backstory, but good lord this is getting to remind me of season 2.  No action, a lot of talking and drama, a little snippet of something here and there, and then a cliffhanger.  I hate to sit and complain, but the point has been pretty well drilled home that Negan and his guys are bad, egotistical, and rule with an iron fist.  Time to push the story forward.  It's no wonder the ratings have been falling off the past few weeks.

And if enough people feel that way, this show doesn't have more than a season or two left...

Yep.  I'm assuming many people watching the show are like me in that they wouldn't leave it on the DVR if it were a truly gripping show.  The writing isn't that great.  The acting is cardboard.  And the story pace is very slow.  With that in mind, why would I race to watch?

I wasn't terribly impressed with any new revelations.  However, I wasn't disappointed either.  Travis finally realized the way things are and took care of some business.  The plot still moved at a snail's pace, but it did offer some hope that Season 3 will have some good stuff.