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Season 5 | Episode 2 | Strangers [AMC] [SPOILERS]

  • 17-10-2014 7:19pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,101 ✭✭✭


    The Walking Dead - Season 5

    Episode 2 - Strangers

    Airdate - October 19th on AMC at 9/8c | October 20th on FOX UK at 9pm

    With supplies running low and not knowing whether to trust the people around them, Rick leads a mission where the risk might not be worth the reward.
    Rick leads a risky mission for a possible small reward when the supplies run low and the group's mistrust of people grows.



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  • Subscribers Posts: 32,864 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    Looks like
    Father Gabriel
    in the first vid, although I haven't watched it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    3
    Very poor overall


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    3
    nuxxx wrote: »
    Very poor overall

    I don't like the sound of that :(

    Gonna watch it in an hour when I get off work.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 246 ✭✭LandoCalrissian


    It was always going to be an anti-climax after the fantastic season opener
    But yeah nowhere near as good as last week

    That being said there were still a lot good things in there

    Glad to see the Termites back so quickly and they didn't hang about messing
    up Young Bob

    In reality you would have to expect that the group would want to take a breather after the mayhem that just went down at Terminus


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    6
    i liked it. it had to slow down a bit at some point but my god still some mad **** going down :eek:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭willmunny1990


    Good episode.

    You'll always get people that will complain but you simply can't have 16 episodes like the opener.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    3
    Very slow episode, a lot of What they do just doesn't make sense.
    poor Bob, a character I was warning to
    , but how did they know his/her name at the end, maybe he was a part of that group before?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,435 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    6
    Was the Priest guy in The Wire before?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    6
    Was the Priest guy in The Wire before?

    Yup he was detective carver and also he was hercs partner


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Liamalone


    3
    Normal service resumed. The only way was down after last week's cracker.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,435 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    6
    Thought it was a good episode. Kept the story going nicely.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,541 ✭✭✭duridian


    7
    Okay, so while it was a bit of a slowdown, it was nowhere near the slow, half season ramble towards Terminus that most of the second half of S4 turned into.
    Looked like Bob was bitten in the flooded cellar but concealed it from the rest of the group. Can't wait to see if Gareth and co.'s food disagrees with them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭off.the.walls


    9
    Am I right???

    325877.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,267 ✭✭✭✭GavRedKing


    8
    When Bob woke did he see
    the guy Tyrese was meant to have killed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭PhiloCypher


    duridian wrote: »
    Okay, so while it was a bit of a slowdown, it was nowhere near the slow, half season ramble towards Terminus that most of the second half of S4 turned into.
    Looked like Bob was bitten in the flooded cellar but concealed it from the rest of the group. Can't wait to see if Gareth and co.'s food disagrees with them.
    IDK the next time on Walking dead are usually spoilerific and they didn't hint at any sort of pay off in that regard, could be they are throwing a curveball and the crying jag was just him letting out all all the pent up emotions he keeps in check to maintain his sunny optimistic attitude in front of the GF and the others.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,639 ✭✭✭Sugar Free


    Was the walker that Carol killed near the end
    Joe from Season 4 - the leader of the gang that 'claimed' stuff like f*cking children?


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,113 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    7
    Although it's gonna be a come own from teh first episode of course, it was still good, nice faster paced stuff this season, seems they have learned a bit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,382 ✭✭✭naughto


    What was carol doing with the car was she going to head off on her own again I wounder


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,831 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    Pfft. cannibals? This show is totally ripping off Z Nation. Next thing you know, they'll have a
    Znado


    :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,599 ✭✭✭sashafierce


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭cjmcork


    jaysus, they can't move for the cast of the Wire - one can only hope Straaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnngggggggggg shows up!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,599 ✭✭✭sashafierce


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,382 ✭✭✭naughto


    Anyone think that the gang are gonna think that the priest guy...I forget his name... killed Daryl/Bob/Carol and they will kill him.....

    Ah I hate watching it week by week!

    No put i d say he's mixed up with the gang that kidnapped beth


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭DoozerT6


    GavRedKing wrote: »
    When Bob woke did he see
    the guy Tyrese was meant to have killed.

    I thought I saw that too... Also wondering if
    Bob
    may have been bitten, similar to the storyline in the comics.

    A slower episode, but necessary I think - we saw the group come together a bit more, ie Rick/Abraham and their respective groups...also, nothing to do with the storyline but it was nice to see Rick and baby Judith having a little father/daughter time in the church :) Shows that they are still human, and not just 'survivors'. IIRC, they didn't have much interaction in S4, Beth was always taking care of her :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,267 ✭✭✭✭GavRedKing


    8
    DoozerT6 wrote: »
    I thought I saw that too... Also wondering if
    Bob
    may have been bitten, similar to the storyline in the comics.

    A slower episode, but necessary I think - we saw the group come together a bit more, ie Rick/Abraham and their respective groups...also, nothing to do with the storyline but it was nice to see Rick and baby Judith having a little father/daughter time in the church :) Shows that they are still human, and not just 'survivors'. IIRC, they didn't have much interaction in S4, Beth was always taking care of her :P

    I'm fairly sure we seen the same thing, I'd have to watch it again but looked
    like the guy tyrese told Carol he'd killed, he had a hat on and similar hair, although it was blurry.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,069 ✭✭✭Tzar Chasm


    7
    We did see tyreese batter the sihte out of that fella tho, so even if he had relented at some point and let him live he would still be fairly bruised


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭DoozerT6


    Tzar Chasm wrote: »
    We did see tyreese batter the sihte out of that fella tho, so even if he had relented at some point and let him live he would still be fairly bruised

    True point....can't remember if the guy looked bruised or not, even though it was blurry.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 960 ✭✭✭Crackle


    6
    An ok episode. Holy **** at the end though!

    Regarding the guy Tyrese beat, I just rewatched that bit again and I'm pretty sure it's him. His left eye looks swelled shut.

    Edit, a quick google brought this up
    Ta4nrlhl.png


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,097 ✭✭✭✭Zero-Cool


    7
    Jaysus that was a great episode, new mysterious character, new 'Safe house', back story details between characters, plan to move ahead to dc and the return of the fine young cannibals. Wasn't expecting them so quick. And then we had 3 guys from the wire in the same scene. I dunno what people want.

    Maybe I'm bias as i read the comics and love when the tv show follows a comic arc so closely.


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  • Subscribers Posts: 32,864 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    No spoilers in the below really but I'll tag it anyhow as it references the comics, but
    a couple of things straight from the comics there (with a different character in one case) lessened the tension a bit for me as I know how it'll play out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Chip Whitley


    6
    5starpool wrote: »
    No spoilers in the below really but I'll tag it anyhow as it references the comics, but
    a couple of things straight from the comics there (with a different character in one case) lessened the tension a bit for me as I know how it'll play out.

    Exactly how I felt about it. Decent episode that probably would have been better had
    I not read the comics!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    Anyone else love that ending?

    Pretty mundane stuff, the odd walker, way too much dialogue and then boom... Right at the end
    the people who have Beth speed by and Bob's foot is being eaten by cannibals!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,372 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    Season 5 | Episode 2 | Strangers [AMC] [SPOILERS]


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,160 ✭✭✭thegreengoblin


    6
    5starpool wrote: »
    No spoilers in the below really but I'll tag it anyhow as it references the comics, but
    a couple of things straight from the comics there (with a different character in one case) lessened the tension a bit for me as I know how it'll play out.

    I know what you mean but it's been three years since I read this story arc in the comics and it's just far enough back that I can't quite remember what's going to happen next. So it's still relatively fresh for me...a bit like
    Bob's foot
    :pac:

    I see on the first page there was some moaning about this episode being slow and a comedown after the amazing opener, blah blah...but jesus what do people expect? I thought it was an enjoyable, solid episode. This one was always going to be about seeing the gang back together, Rick and Abraham getting to know each other, maybe a bit of downtime for them all after the trauma of what went before, etc. Reading some of the comments here I find it amazing that some people actually made it through season 2.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 82 ✭✭BMmeow


    In the comics
    Dale is the one whos leg eaten and they find out they're eating tainted flesh! I think bob could have been infected when pulled in that water & it explains why he was outside crying and kinda looked like he was limping?

    Maybe the termites saved Bob by cutting his leg off?

    Then again Gareth also ate the leg and theres no way he's going to be killed for eating the meat so soon into the season. so maybe not infected at all!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Liamalone


    3
    BMmeow wrote: »
    I!

    GTF ffs


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,840 ✭✭✭Calibos


    sheehy83 wrote: »
    Jaysus that was a great episode, new mysterious character, new 'Safe house', back story details between characters, plan to move ahead to dc and the return of the fine young cannibals. Wasn't expecting them so quick.....
    Yeah, 'That Drives me Crazy' too.

    Henceforth, I demand that all references to the Terminites be changed to The Fine Young Cannibals. Brilliant ;)

    I guess one could now say that Bob has been Terminated :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 504 ✭✭✭terryduff12


    2
    For the whole episode I could something happening to bob one more Kiss crap, going out crying with his backs to the woods, they`ll be back to calling the walkers behind trees killing them so as not to upset anyone like Hershel done back in the prison. Is it that the writers haven`t a clue or would people be that stupid in them situations.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    3
    BMmeow wrote: »
    In the comics
    Dale is the one whos leg eaten


    Probably best to spoiler that unless it's your intention to give away a possible story line.


  • Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,248 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    After the fight in the food kitchen, and Bob walking out by himself, I was sure Bob was a goner. At the time, I was kinda nervous, waiting for the other boot to drop. :D

    Shame Tyrese didn't finish the job. Worse that he lied about it.

    Glad someone remembered Beth (at the end at least)

    I think the car driver was locked outside by Gabriel. Someone who worked in the church with him. Did we ever see was it male / female? Just that they always seem hidden, like they want a big reveal. Maybe a kid. Maybe a woman?

    Then again, soft as she's been, I would have thought Beth would have been up to a bit of ass kicking. Especially after hanging around with Daryl.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭Baby4


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    This post has been deleted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,210 ✭✭✭maximoose


    BMmeow wrote: »
    In the comics
    Dale is the one whos leg eaten and they find out they're eating tainted flesh! I think bob could have been infected when pulled in that water & it explains why he was outside crying and kinda looked like he was limping?

    Maybe the termites saved Bob by cutting his leg off?

    Then again Gareth also ate the leg and theres no way he's going to be killed for eating the meat so soon into the season. so maybe not infected at all!

    I thought this as well, why else would he be crying?

    Great episode I thought, but like others the comics dampened the impact for me as you could tell what was coming.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭hollypink


    Baby4 wrote: »
    Loved this episode, but a couple of things bugged me:

    - They keep wandering off into the night on their own (Bob, Carol, Daryl). It's Season 5 ffs! They know the deal by now...

    Me too, especially as they couldn't be sure all the Sanctuary people were dead, could they?

    I really thought based on his behaviour that
    Bob had been bitten; I wonder if this is the end for him, certainly looks like it. The closing scene I found a bit disturbing, reminded me of a cellar scene in the film/book "The Road". It certainly heightened the horror! It occurred to me that if Bob was bitten, it would have been on the leg/foot, so maybe the fine young cannibals (love that!) inadvertently saved him. But there are too many holes in that. Everyone else got sick very soon after being bitten and anyway they'd surely have noticed the bite before they took his leg.[\spoiler]


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,417 ✭✭✭sonofenoch


    Baby4 wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    Also when the group were traipsing through the forest at various times there was no sign of the kid......who dropped the baby


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,210 ✭✭✭maximoose


    Carl had Judith a lot of the time, pretty sure she was always visible enough when they were moving around!

    As for the wandering off in to the night.. Bob we are speculating on, but Carol I thought was intending to leave the group again for whatever reason - Daryl copped this and followed her to stop her.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    What annoyed me was that there was so much attention on Bob throughout the episode and I knew that something was going to happen to him. But the annoyance was put to bed once it was understood that all the boyo-s were sitting around eating his leg.

    I really think that he may have been scratched or bitten in the cellar and he was hiding it. It would be interesting to see if it went that route.

    I'm a bit pee'd off because of the whole mystery around the new priest and how he survived, and what detective Coral found on the wall of the church.

    One other thing....when Bob was taken by the Terminus lads, there was a scratch or marking on the tree. We seen something like that last week on Morgans return

    tumblr_ndd219hbA21t55st9o1_500.jpg


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    5
    The drab, lifeless conversations are back


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,210 ✭✭✭maximoose


    Boom_Bap wrote: »

    I'm a bit pee'd off because of the whole mystery around the new priest and how he survived, and what detective Coral found on the wall of the church.

    I think that'll be answered shortly enough, they seems to be lifting everything about his story from the comics

    The actor pees me off cuz he just reminds meof the bollix of a character he played in Oz :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,417 ✭✭✭sonofenoch


    Also this magical solution mullet man has for 'killing off the undead' are they aware all the living has the virus also? ........have never followed any of the comics so pardon my ignorance


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Keyzer


    Decent episode, enjoyed it.

    That said, the writers are still committing glaring errors in terms the bullsh1t they expect us to accept and believe.

    Like many have said already, why are people wandering around, at night, in the dark on their own? The world is infested with zombies. Added to that, they've just escaped from a group of cannibals who will be royally pissed off that their old home and most of their buddies are dead. Its just sloppy and lazy writing.

    Also, if you were that suspicious of the priest would you lay into his "wine" stash and get sloshed? It could be drugged or, worse, if you are attacked you wont be able to put up a fight if you are half cut.

    And why do they just believe mullet man in his claims that he can fix it all? Lets all put our faith in this complete stranger who has offered no real scientific evidence or explanation as to how he can solve this problem and trek on to DC.


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