Don't get me wrong - I'm not one of those people who hates the show (any show) and complains about it but still watches it. I really dig the show and have written my own zombie apocalypse stories because of TWD. I guess I was more wondering out loud how the show will go with the various possible story lines. I'm interested in the potential Rick/Carl story lines since my teenage son and I watch it together. Plus the young romance between Maggie and Glen (but mostly due to  my crush on actress Lauren Cohan lol). What IF she gets preggers - is that really wise, can any woman safely carry a baby to term with severely limited supplies and medical aid etc. ?
I do think the threat of the original crop of walkers should be diminished due to them completely dying off. But with a continue source of newly walking dead for various reasons, that threat will never go away. But it's the other living people who are more of a serious threat.
So I'm very excited about what comes next with the show.

Check your Barnes and Nobles - found wave 2 there today including Boba!

I was gonna post the same thing - went to barnesnnobles yesterday and was surprised to see some wave 2 figs - boba, han, slave leia, and greedo. Boba looked as awesome as I expected and Han looked better than I had seen in photos, leia and greedo were good nut nothing special. But man, $25 was too steep unless they ever go on sale and/or you have a coupon.

I re-watched the finale again last night on the typical friday nite re-broadcast AMC has done. I tried to watch for some of the little things people have mentioned that I missed like Tyreese telling the girls - Lizzie and her friends they need to go and see him running looking like he was carrying something/someone so I can buy that he saved Judith.
I also noticed zombie clara from the woods this time at the end, that was a nice nod to the season premier.
I liked the brief exchange between daryl and bob when daryl starts to hand out the weapons, he goes 'you good?' and bob says he is as daryl gives him a gun.
I liked how he got Maggie's attention by tapping her azz with the gun as he walked up behind her (probably fantasy of many guys tapping her on the butt lol).
During the fire fight, the once baddazz acting Tara was cowering behind a vehicle as her gf Alicia tells her to find a safe  place, only to popped by crazy Lizzie at the end. So it looks like both sisters, Tara and Lily survive especially after Lily kills the Gov.
So with the prison group all split up in smaller groups and on the run in different directions, it opens up a lot of new story lines they can pursue for the back half of the season.

While I was sad to see hershel get killed - and in such a gruesome manner, it was realistic that people in peril actually died. I thought the fight was great, what they teased at the end of S3 they finally delivered with the S4 mid-season ending.
Daryl is the MAN no doubt about it, dropping a grenade down the tank turret barrel then shooting the from Fringe in the heart with an arrow - guess he'll turn in to a walker now
The fist fight between Rick and the Gov was brutal and the culmination of the verbal foreplay from last year. Just as Gov had Rick almost choked out, Michonne stabs him through the chest; leave it to new gf lily to put the bullet through his brainbox!
While watching the TD show, it was obvious how close the cast are as lauren fought back tears and Scott truely seemed dejected about being killed off.
But overall I was very satisfied with this mid-season finale.

Hopefully they wrap up the Gov and prison parts with the mid-season finale by having the 'huge' fight they promised at the end of season 3; new comic characters are set to debut in the second half of the season so I hope that means rick and the gang abandon the prison and head towards the supposed safe zone in Arlington.

Rumors are that the Gov will bring a very special piece of equipment seen in the comics in either this episode or the next one as the mid-season finale.

good point, does the Gov get to come back from the edge of psychotic vengence!