The baby will be kidnapped thereby conveniently removing the infant without having her die. She can return at a later time if the series continues for additional seasons.
Right on all counts. It wasn't that great an episode. It was basically just 'filler' to set up the showdown. And you're dead on about Rick. How can an experienced law enforcement agent not trust his instincts and even consider giving up Michonne? From the start of the conversation, when the governor said the only thing he would discuss would be their surrender should have told Rick all he needed to know. And how could he not check the table for a weapon that EVERYONE knew was there. Especially when he showed up earlier than anticipated.
If they go that route, it wouldn't make sense. A baby just complicates matter 10-fold during a ZA. I don't think anyone would go out of their way to care for one, if they don't have to.
The baby is what keeps them attached to the prison. The pace of this series is starting to annoy me. It is a story that deserves a movie pace.
The pace! You are correct! The series is entitled "The Walking Dead;" but the script now is devolving into "Gunfight at the OK Corral." We don't need another western; if we wanted a good one we could just watch some old John Wayne/John Ford westerns--or the Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns. We all tuned in to TWD because the enemy was awesome: lethal, dangerous, frightening, creepy, disturbing (because, after all, these monsters were once our family and friends), and there were so many of them that the ingenuity and courage that it took for Rick's band to survive was a great--even epic--original series. The filler that they are foisting upon us now is very, very disappointing. Even now, were you to give me a choice, I'd tune in to another epic battle against the walkers (like at Hershel's farm) rather than watch another human vs human throw down in Woodbury. BFD, if one group using full auto weapons and handguns defeats another group using full auto weapons and handguns. BFD.
Yeah, it's been dragging a bit since they came back from their break. And, frankly, while the episode with Morgan (the guy from the 1st season) was pretty good, it also led to some HUGE questions, like: 1) why the hell hadn't anyone in the prison thought about similar traps and escape routes; 2) where on earth did Morgan get all of the weapons and why on earth can't the prison group manage to find any on their own; and 3) if the prison is close enough to Rick's hometown to drive there, play around with Morgan and walkers and get a baby bed, and make it back to the prison all in one day, then WHY THE EVERLOVIN' FUCK didn't Rick -- a deputy sheriff -- know exactly where the prison and Woodbury were? The last question is the one that really sticks in my craw. I live in suburban/rural Louisiana and, while I work with the criminal justice system, I'm not a cop. But I can direct you to eight parish prisons, two juvenile detention centers and countless police stations, sheriff's offices and substations in a 100 mile radius. And Rick doesn't know about a fairly large maximum security (apparently state) prison IN HIS OWN BACKYARD?
Rick is from Kentucky, and the prison is somewhere in Georgia possibly. Distance and location kind of got ambiguous in between them leaving the Greene farm and arriving at the prison.
I think (and certainly could be wrong about this) but in the comic, Rick and his family were from Kentucky and the prison is in Georgia. But in the series Rick and his family are from rural Georgia. And even if Rick and his family were from Kentucky in the series, then how on earth can they travel so easily and quickly from Georgia to Kentucky? In the world of the walking dead, that would be a week long treacherous one way journey.
