Will You Apocalypse Marry Me?

My sister recorded my reaction to Richonne becoming a thing…

“you’re gonna miss me so bad when I’m gone”

- A fan art of Michonne from The Walking Dead.  

Beth Greene.

Alternatively titled: My Roommate Is Awesome, 5x09 is Still Filled with Some Weird-Ass Shit, & Suck My Dick Haters

Earlier tonight I showed my roommate the beginning of 5x09 and Tyreese’s hallucinations. (She had been telling me about the D0ctor Who two-part season finale, and it reminded me of 5x09). My roommate has never seen The Walking Dead and for most shows is a casual viewer. She knows about Beth because I’ve talked about her, and my roommate is great because she is completely unbiased towards the Great Beth Conspiracy. Like me, she is also a Creative Writing Major. We’re studying this for future careers, and she even wants to be a screenwriter. The girl knows television.

At the scene where Rick and Co. pause at the walker in the car, she made a face. I asked her about it, and she said that the scene felt odd because they reacted so much to the walker. She said, “You’d think they just glance at it and go on.” That’s the logical thing. We see Team Family ignore walkers such as Carl ignoring the walker against the tree when he escorted Hershel outside the prison walls during the flu arc. Roughly, they’re two years into the apocalypse. Trapped walkers aren’t a big deal anymore.

(Fun fact: This clip is also used as the picture for the episode on Netflix. It is not the same as other episodes because this clip is around 12 minutes in but for 5x08 the clip is of Dawn during the exchange).

(credit to @deni269 for this: X)

This walker also appeared in at least two separate promos during the season 5 hiatus (X), just sayin’.

Interestingly, they also have a picture of this walker in the Talking Dead studio (X):

My roommate also noticed the grandfather clock in the road and wondered why they had it. When I told her that we thought it was a reference to 4x12, she agreed because, and I quote, said “Writers don’t just plunk stuff in.” Seriously, why would a grandfather clock be in the middle of the road during the fucking apocalypse? It serves no purpose and does not fit the scene and TPTB had to haul it there in the Georgia heat. It wasn’t put there for shits and giggles. That’s a fucking callback.

Then when Tyreese was put in their car at the end and focused again on the female walker, my roommate said, “How many times have they focused on it? Four times now?” She recognizes the significance of it and how it relates to Beth. She completely believes that Beth is alive and believes in us.

Guys, you can not imagine how validating it was to know she noticed all of these things and she doesn’t even watch the fucking show.

To the haters: We’re not overanalyzing and we’re not crazy. Suck it.

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