Wow! Walking Dead-last episode. Don't enter thread if you haven't seen it.

[trumad]

I actually had some emotion when it happened.

[yallerdawg]

1. Don't most major characters die twice?

OK, one down...

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2. Actually there have been several.

[yallerdawg]

3. If you watched "The Talking Dead"...

you know this is not over.

If you are a fan of the graphic novel series, you know there is a much better ending in store for us!

[trumad]

4. I'm glad I haven't read the novels.

It's a damn good show. Just when you think it's going a bit slow....it kicks you in the ass.

[dr.strangelove]

6. Well ...

I do read the novels, and love them, but there is no guarentee that Nagan will be introduced in the same way, or with the same specific death, as in the comic.

We are at the point where so many people in the TV world are different from their comic counterpart, that anything could happen. I would hope Nagen is introduced in a similar way, as he deserves that, but maybe it will involve someone else. I think the role that was played by the person he killed is now played by another, in so many ways.

That said, I do not think a main character died this week. It looked like it, but I think he will have crawled under that dumpster and will be saved.

[Goblinmonger]

7. The only way that won't piss me off as a cheap tactic

is if he is bit, but gets back to say goodbye to Maggie before he dies. Nobody gets out of that scenario without a bite. Kind of a parallel arch to Dave that didn't make it back. And, seriously, in the world of the zombie Apocalypse, I get that you tell Dave he's going to make it back, but you still take the note anyway.

[yallerdawg]

8. Wait, wait, wait...

how have many of them gotten through zombie herds before?

Lots of blood and guts smeared all over them from an unwalking dead!

Like the last scene at the dumpster!

[Goblinmonger]

9. Yes, they have gotten through zombie herds before.

Differences are:
1. Usually more than one of them to fight the walkers.
2. In the exceptions to that case (Tyreese), they were standing and mobile not lying on the ground underneath someone.
3. There was a means of escape. In this situation, there is a wall on one side, a fence with more walkers on the other side of it on two more sides, and roughly about 5 thousand walkers on the fourth side. There is no means for escape.
4. The people fighting the herds had a weapon that had longevity.

Let's say he is under Nick. And he is surrounded by roughly 50 walkers on all sides. Are they going to stop eating when they are done with Nick? "Well, that was a tasty treat; I'm stuffed."

I'm not saying someone as smart and capable as Glenn can't get out of this--though that is going to seriously test my limits of suspension of disbelief. I'm saying he can't get out without being bitten. No frickin' way. He's lying on the ground. He has someone on top of him (if he doesn't, then we know he's dead). He's stunned by the fall onto hard concrete after seeing someone first shoot himself in the head and currently being eating kind of alive on top of him. He has dozens of walkers all around him pressing down on the dead weight on top of him and dozens more walkers pressing in on the walkers eating Nick trying to get a bite of the fresh meat. And he's going to get out of that without so much as one of them biting him on the foot (because, what, Nick fell on top of him in such a fashion that he is perfectly covering Glenn 100?) or on his head that we saw is 100% exposed to the walkers around him?

If you can find someone getting out of herd in a situation even close to what Glenn is experiencing, I'll reconsider my position. But I've read all the comics and watched all the episodes, and I don't believe that exists.

[yallerdawg]

10. Check out Episode 2, "Guts."

Glenn did this.

Glenn rolls under dumpster covered in blood and entrails, he is gone to the walkers.

Then, he gets to meet Lucille!

[Goblinmonger]

11. I get the possible symmetry

but in episode 2, he takes great pains to cover himself in walker entails. In the most recent episode, he is covered in delicious fresh human blood. He won't be invisible like he was in "Guts."

[Goblinmonger]

5. I thought it was a great episode.

If he isn't dead, it better be really damned special as to why he isn't. I have no problem watching a show in which any character could die. I don't know about watching a show where a character is on the ground surrounded by thousands of zombies doesn't die. And I don't care if Nick is on top of him--if he doesn't get at least bit in that scenario, I will agree with Lindelof on Talking Dead and call shenanigans.

Though I agree with the person upthread that his death in the comic is a MUCH better death that I was looking forward to. Though I understand that they need to mix things up (e.g. Carol is LONG dead by this point in the comics).

[yallerdawg]

12. One last thing...

Is Glenn alive...?

‘Walking Dead’ Producer Talks Latest Casualty: The Character We Knew ‘Is Dead’

Executive producer David Alpert on Glenn:

He has forgiven and embraced and given Nicholas every opportunity in the show to do the right thing, and almost at every point along the way, has paid the price for it. I feel like, regardless of what happened to Glenn, he paid a tremendous price for having been human to Nicholas, and that, to me, from an emotional point-of-view — whether or not Glenn is alive or dead or something else — the Glenn that we knew, the one that believed in the better side of humanity, I think is dead.

[trumad]

13. Snap out of it Glenn

This is wating for you at home.

[yallerdawg]

14. Happy Halloween!