Yeah, the Katana was impressive. Chris Hardwick used it to take out a chunk of wall with a bad swing. :-D

At this point in the comic the zombies have become basically a nuisance — somebody in the lettercol recently pointed out that it’s been over 25 issues since somebody actually got bitten.

The zombies are a threat, but they’re easily avoided once you get used to them.  The real threat is the other survivors.

Which is going to be the major theme of this season’s arc, I should think.

…you follow me?

Ahem. Samurai Sword. (adjusts nerd glasses)

I tend to think that the more likely scenario is Shaun of the Dead; quite a few people get bitten, die, and spread the plague initially because of the surprise factor, and more people who are either incapable of defending themselves or have literally nothing with which to do so will die, but then you have the rest of the people who can keep their shit together for long enough to wipe out the zombies, and after that, even if everyone automatically becomes a zombie when they die, everyone adjusts to the “new normal” where part of the way in which the dying are treated is to put them in restraints, with a relatively non-gross method of performing the necessary postmortem head injury (I’m thinking of a captive bolt pistol, such as the one that Anton Chigurh used in No Country for Old Men), and accident victims are given a wide berth until someone can find the emergency machete. (Fido did their own version of this, albeit in a more satirical fashion.)

Also, they could have set up a sort of gauntlet (Indian style) where the zombies are let out to be slaughtered one by one.

It would not be hard to set a trap for zombies – consider a nice steel industrial stairway going up 3 stories. Saw off the railing and maybe remove a couple steps about 20 feet up and replace that with a springloaded trapdoor to drop them to the ground, or any variety of traps to send them back to the ground. They’ll get busted up. Or set it so they fall into a large dumpster. 

What they really need is the kid from “Home Alone.”

In tv land, where even a soda bottle stuffed with socks gives you “wiff” instead of “bang”, yeah they should have been on that shit. And being in Georgia where these things are available, having been to police stations, military bases, and gun shops you’d think they would have come across some ready made ones by this point. 

Or is it the existential angst of bringing a new life into such a brutal, pitiless world?  An angst which Lori may feel like Rick is too preoccupied to help her with..

Seriously, if THIS is what you have a problem with in a zombie show, I think you’re missing the point – and all of the fun.

I thought his son was pretty amazing in this episode, too. When he sees the pet food in the cupboard, he barely hesitates – he has adapted to the new reality better than most of the adults.

Nice Recap. I was shocked at how quick Rick came to the decision to lop off Herschel’s leg. I’m also intrigued to see what the (living) inmates will have to say, knowing that their first contact with the group was watching one of them butcher their own.

On a more serious note, during the camp-fire sing-song I had a demented vision of the zombies turning their heads at the sound of the group’s voices and begin crooning in soulful, un-dead harmony.