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All The Incredibly Cool Details You May Have Missed In This Week’s ‘The Walking Dead’

The Walking Dead, directed by Greg Nicotero, “What Happened and What’s Going On,” was not only one of the more depressing episodes of the series, featuring one of its saddest deaths, it was also one of the more artistically directed. The Walking Dead occasionally layers in Easter Eggs and cool details, but it did so much more frequently in this week’s episode. There were some really cool details that, if you weren’t watching (or listening) to closely enough, you may have missed.

1. The voice you hear on the radio broadcasts in the mind of Tyreese is actually the voice of Andrew Lincoln, in his natural accent. What we are hearing, most likely, is not reports about the zombie outbreak, but sadly, radio reports about the Rwandan genocide.

“At least 68 citizens of the republic have been killed in four deadly attacks along the main coastal district. The group has continued their campaign of random violence, moving across the countryside unfettered with the republic’s military forces in disarray … There have been troubling reports of cannibalism having broken out in refugee camps along the republic’s transportation corridor. And despite the string of victories by rebel forces, there are disturbing reports of increasing the brutality of their tactics including the wholesale destruction of villages, burning down local prisons, targeting of civilians, and even the widespread mutilation of children and young mothers.”

2. I was trying to figure out the significance of Noah getting nicked in the forehead on the barbed wire near the beginning of the episode, wondering if it was a bit of foreshadowing:

More likely, however, director Greg Nicotero was clueing us into the fact that the opening sequence was a flash-forward, as you can see that Noah’s forehead is nicked there when he is weeping over what we originally believed to be the burial of Beth, but as we later learned, was in fact the burial of Tyreese.

3. As I wrote about elsewhere, there are several references to wolves, including most noticeably this graffiti behind Michonne.

There is also a very brief shot of the survivors being attacked by what looks like wild dogs or wolves in the “Next on” promo (at the 24 second mark):

4. You might have also noticed a few pictures of dogs in the bedroom of Noah’s walker brother. Here’s one above the head of Tyreese:

"All The Incredibly Cool Details You May Have Missed In This Week’s ‘The Walking Dead’"

Damn, as someone who didn’t read the comics but doesn’t care about spoilers in this instance. #8 threw me off, that sounds violent as hell, but I kinda hope they do it.

The problem with killing Glen these days is it makes Maggie’s story the saddest possible story in the history of television. Especially since the last thing she tells Glen is that she’s pregnant. I don’t know that the viewing audiences could handle every member of her family being brutally killed on film and having her still be at all a reasonable human being.

@Yoni: I ever since they got to the prison I have actually thought that Maggie’s utility in storytelling is the biggest motivator for the writers to kill Glenn off. There are not many super sexy female characters on this show. Much less super sexy female characters we actually care about, sorry Rosita. Maggie and Glenn’s story together is pretty set in stone, horrible things all around them but they are completely in love etc., etc.. If they kill Glen they get to due the whole arc of Maggie grieving, finding the strength to move on, and eventually learning to love again with another man… Or woman, once again, I’m looking at you Rosita. They get to do the whole will they or won’t they blah blah blah that most series thrive on and all that. Of course they can do all of the same stuff with Sasha (also super sexy IMO, but seemingly less regarded as so from what I have seen) but only to a lesser extent as the relationship between her and Smiling Bob was much less fleshed out. Also addressing your point about how sad Maggie’s story would be if Glenn died, Sasha’s story is pretty tough too what with Bob and Tyreese dying so close together. (RIP Cutty.)

Did anyone from the group even see how the Governor died? I felt like they never saw his body, and it bugged me that he had the bullet wound in Tyreese’s vision. He wouldn’t have known how he died.

Did they see his body as they left the prison? I don’t know if everybody did, depending on how they left, but I think some of them saw it.

Wait, didn’t Michonne do the deed? I can’t recall now.

@BennyBlancofromtheRock Michonne stabbed him in the chest when the Governor and Rick were fighting, but she left him there. Then Tara’s sister (who I think the governor was sleeping with?) came back and shot him in the head because the governor left her by that lake where her daughter got bit. I haven’t seen it since it aired, but I think that’s what happened.

No matter how many times you try and sell me the idea that this was an extremely sad death I’m just not buying it

It’s not sad because the actual death had no gravitas. Day dreaming looking at some pictures while a ninja stealth zombie just rolls up behind you and bites your arm. At what point in the zompocalypse are people going to start paying attention, or I don’t know, wearing sleeves?

Or clearing rooms and shutting doors? I mean, on an everyday basis doors are a pretty common, useful security method. One would think that doors would become even more useful in a world full of murderous walking corpses that don’t know how to open them.

This episode was so g’damn smug — I couldn’t take it. All of the metaphors and foreshadowing and camera tricks reminded me of pretentious college film student bullshit. Both Greg Nicotero and Scott Gimple need to realize they will never win a “Best Drama” Emmy and get back to having some fun with the show.

And the soundtrack… BLEH. It bounced back and forth between a SyFy slasher and Lifetime movie the whole episode.

Just ridiculously heavy-handed and took me out of the episode several times.

I thought that picture of Noah was actually while he was freaking out about the neighborhood being destroyed.

I haven’t read the comics (i got my bro some for Christmas last year. I might start) but I’ve read the Wikis. I’m so damn geeked to meet Negan! I thought Gareth and the cannibals would be crazy but the gang disposed of them recall quick and in very brutal fashion! Negan is gonna cause them real problems I think.

I really wish #3 would have been graffiti that said Wolverines.

The first critter out of those trees is definitely a dog. Could it be running with wolves? Sure, maybe, but I’m going to say they’re all dogs.

I’m thinking Negan’s gang will be called the Wolves on the show and since Rick & Co. aren’t settled down the story will be a lot different than the comic version.

I didn’t even think of that. That’s a pretty cool theory.

I did, however think that this town was destroyed by Negan, because when they walk into Noah’s house, the person on the floor’s head was beaten in, not shot nor stabbed.

@Steve, corpses with stove in heads are probably pretty common on account of the whole zombie thing.

I actually thought the radio broadcast was also kind of paralleling the group’s and others’ actions during the show so far. Burned down prison, cannibalism, increasing brutality, destroying villages/camps they’ve encountered. Maybe I was reading too much into that.

I agree. Plus, I got the sense that the broadcast alludes to, despite the Zombie apocalypse, real life is just as terrible.

“what we originally believed to be the burial of Beth” WE did not believe this. Only Dustin believed this.

Negan freaks me out in the comics and Glenn’s death really bothered me. It was just so brutal. And him trying to call out Maggie’s name. Ugh! So when I saw Glenn pick up the baseball bat in Sunday night’s episode, I got major chills. I am looking forward to seeing how Negan is on the show. And kinda scared. But it’ll be good for the show.

Nobody noticed the time on the clock on the radio was 5:09, which is the number of this episode.

Said it before and I’ll say it again. They should have Negan beat Darryl to death instead of Glenn. That would fuck everyone up.

Negan should kill all the characters and then the following week the show is just about Negan. Then they should get new writers.

My main question for the future of this show… “Do you have the balls to have Ezekiel & Shiva in their comic book form in the show and make me believe it?” I WANT MORE TIGER IN THIS SHOW!

Ah, because in a show about the dead coming to life, a man controlling a tiger is unbelievable haha

Wait, are you saying you’re unsure if the the physical presence of the tiger might not be believable, i.e. a realistic CGI, or, that him having the tiger at all will be not be believable (as Steve suggests)?

I have always thought Ezekiel is the most over the top(and awesome) story in the comic book (Once you have made the leap that zombies exist). I think that’s why the Kingdom is the least mentioned or described community in the comics. It seems like a brief tangent from horror to fantasy and I am not sure the producers will want to confuse the storytelling that much.

That being said, I want to see video reactions on youtube of people who flip out when a tiger shows up out of nowhere and eats zombies.

After Tyreese is bitten around surrounded by the Gov, Martin, and the girls, the bedroom door is shown and it has a dead end sign on it.

I don’t think the land locked country of Rwanda has a “coastal district”

It’s along the coast of Lake Kivu, which makes up Rwanda’s western border.

If you look at picture #4 you’ll see a surfboard that looks EERILY like Left Shark, however in the frame it’s on the RIGHT hand side. This juxtaposition of metaphors could perhaps be alluding to the fact that Left Shark could’ve saved Beth.

I found it odd that they’ve spent all this time in Georgia, not getting far at all from Atlanta, and now all of a sudden they’re in Virginia.

Rick explained it, I think to Michonne, he wasn’t that into Noah, but felt like he owed it to him to bring him to Virginia to see if his family was still alive, because Beth was going to go there with him. He did it for Beth – or some such shit.

^^ make Beth’s death count for something? She died for Noah, immediately telling Noah to F off back on home by himself may not have been the best way to honor her sacrifice. Not that I necessarily agree with the decision.

That was my one complaint with an otherwise amazing episode. With all the obstacles they tend to run into, they somehow make the appx. 450 mile trip* from Atlanta to Noah’s community with ease. What happened to that wall of Walkers that blocked Abraham’s group?

Did anyone else think the last zombie they encountered, when Tyreese’s foot gets stuck in the fence, was a homage to the cemetery zombie from Night of the Living Dead?

The best part of this average show is ripping the recaps and “think-pieces”.

I just hate the fact the Tyreese was killed so easily by a walker…. it made this powerful heart of gold guy look like a wimp. My son has read the comics and I hate the fact that Glenn will be killed… I really don’t want Glenn to die…. I don’t want anymore of my immediate group to die…. they are a strong powerful family now… let them continue the fight… but why do they always have to die… they keep going like this…. I won’t be able to watch anymore… all it will do is break my heart again and again..

He was soft though. That’s the whole point of his death, he was unwilling to do what it takes. I think it was fitting for his character to die being bitten by a child since he was just a big teddy bear.

Does Rwanda have a “coastal district”? It is landlocked, bordered by Lake Kivu on the western side. I’ve never heard the term “coast” applied to a lake.

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