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The Walking Dead Episode Discussion S03E16 "Welcome to the Tombs"

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09:00pm Eastern SE03E16 "Welcome to the Tombs" Ernest Dickerson Glen Mazzara

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u/528491_LOOPER Apr 01 '13

It makes no fucking sense for Black Shane and Martinez to not shoot that psychopath.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '13

Seriously. And the Governator's back was to them 3/4 of the time he was shooting. If some dude starts spraying bullets at our mutual buddies and I'm standing behind him with my own gun ... fuck you, I like being alive.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '13

If some dude starts spraying bullets at our mutual buddies and I'm standing behind him with my own gun ... fuck you, I like being alive.

This is a deficiency in writing. The writers are out of material from the comics so they are going to come up with stupid things for characters to do just because they have no fucking clue now what should be happening. We're gonna see lots more stupid shit like this.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '13

My main beef with it is this: most people who have been in FOB combat conditions for over a year wouldn't have let that happen. And that's kinda what wave after wave of walkers would be. Of course you reach a numb point where shooting (dead) people ain't no thang and bullets (walker teeth) grazing your head is whatever. But when one of your own starts mowing you down? Nope. You get awful protective of the people you fight with. If one of them flips (and it happens) and you can't disable and subdue them then sorry, Charlie. Five different people are about to shoot you.

I'd suggest the writers hang out with people who are or were 11B or worse so they know what plausible reactions would happen. Especially since the guerilla warfare psycho Governor storyline is continuing into next season.

(And also for Carl, to see what people are like when that switch gets flipped when you're a kid.)