Note: I'll be posting live during the course of tonight's episode of AMC's The Walking Dead, starting in roughly 15 minutes. Every update will be a new post, and I'll go through the thread after the show ends to condense and curate my posts into this top post. If you plan to follow along while watching, make sure you refresh frequently. Feel free to post along and/or in response to my comments, I'm not opposed to including others' thoughts in The Walking Dumb.

When we last left our intrepid band of utter morons, Shane and Grimes were riding in the car on their way back from playing grab ass with the zombies in some public works facility. They still have their hostage in the trunk, and basically nothing happened back at the farm, so the episode might as well have been a dream sequence. It didn't really develop the characters or advance the plot much; Grimes still won't kill innocent people, and Shane will. And some girl that probably doesn't have a name decided not to kill herself. Probably a mistake, I hope she zombies up soon.

The episode description for tonight's episode reads:

Quote Originally Posted by AMC via TimeWarner
"Judge, Jury, Executioner" Rick sides with Shane causing Dale to worry that the group is losing its humanity; Carl's actions have unintended consequences.
The description implies that Rick has "slept on" his decision regarding their unnamed hostage (side note: have you ever noticed that characters only get names after they are dead or missing?) and wants to kill the kid to prevent some dumb "war" amongst the Farm and the other survivors that is just so not going to happen because it's insanely stupid and impractical. This is a dumb decision, but not because it's inhuman. The kid healed from a catastrophic leg injury ("the muscle will be tore all to shreds") in like three days; you do not sacrifice superhuman Wolverine-type healing so readily. The real question is why they haven't executed Dale yet. They haven't been on the road in forever (remember that fixing his shitty RV was his "talent" in season 1? Now his talent is making Daleface and whining about Shane being a badass.) Dale needs to sit down and shut the fuck up. Dale is the worst.

There's also the implication that Carl is going to screw something up, which is about time. They have long given Carl too much latitude in the group. Remember when he was asking to be allowed to carry around a gun, and then pulled one out of the waistband of his pants? Or when he thought he was going to find Sophia and dumb bitch Lori promised him they wouldn't leave until they found her? Or when Grimes let him walk up to a wild fucking deer in the woods and he got shot? Carl needs to sit in the corner and shut up.

Anyways, we're about 2 minutes away from kickoff. Time's up, let's do this.