The Walking Dead Roundtable 3.6: “Hounded”

Hosted By Fashion and Entertainment Editor Joseph Lamour

In this week’s Walking Dead, we see Michonne proving why she’s so badass, yet again; we are reminded why Merle is oh so creepy; and we are shown, yet again, that Andrea is not thinking clearly enough in a world where people drag around dead bodies on leashes, keep their decaying loved ones in barns, and men shoot their best friends in the face to protect them from everyone. Carly Mitchell, Kiki Smith, and Jeannie Chan join me to analyze the whos, whats, and whys of this zombie world we see this week.

*I’ll let River Song say what we don’t want in the comments this time:

Michonne, or Ed Gein?

Carly: Looks like we’re starting with some Blair Witch Project stuff here.

Joe: Seriously. Did Jeffrey Dahmer somehow come back from the dead?

Carly: Look, it’s been exciting having Michonne on the show just because she’s new, but it’ll be a much happier day for me when they give us a reason to like her. There’s gotta be one; she can’t just be the angry/silent/violent weapon of mass destruction we’ve seen so far.

Kiki: I am certainly getting tired of her broody attitude. I’m sure they are building up her character and all, especially for those of us (like me) that have not read the novels. But this “biter-gram” just took it to another level. Also, is anyone else shocked that she so nonchalantly whacked off one of Merle’s group’s heads off without hesitation?

Joe: You know, Kiki, I kept shouting “A human being! She beheaded a human being!”

Kiki: Right. Now she moved on from zombie killing to people killing?

Jeannie: Her “biter-gram” seemed a step too far for me. It’s just one notch below Ultimate Zombie Fight Club (what are we calling these fights again?) on the scale of things I feel living people should not do to the bodies of the once-living…

Joe: I remarked to Kiki as we watched together (because she’s in town for Thanksgiving–WOO!) that it really seemed like something a serial killer would do. Which, technically, Rick, Shane, and Michonne all actually are at this point (thank you Criminal Minds for pointing out that you don’t need to be a sociopath to be one) I know we’re in a different world now, but seriously. Spelling things out with corpses is never something that likens you to a character. Even though what she spelled out was pretty hilarious.

Jeannie: It was pretty clever! I LOLed in spite of myself, NGL.

Joe: I feel like Michonne would have gone for Merle first. That’s a very TV show thing to do, have the most popular actor somehow survive something despite all reason. I know we’re watching a TV show, but it takes me out of it a little bit whenever that happens.

Carly: After watching a piece on the news show Sunday morning covering General Patton and the incident where he slapped a soldier for having combat fatigue, this scene with Merle is a page straight out of the Abusive And Demanding General playbook.

When a Stranger Calls; Or, The Girl Who Would Go First In The Hunger Games

Jeannie: Is it just me or does this lady on the phone sound like Amy? I’m not entirely sure this phone conversation that Rick’s having exists outside of his own head…dude is clearly suffering a huge break from reality after Lori died. Yeesh. This episode is gonna be a scary bummer…

Kiki: So, about this phone call. Is anyone else wondering how that phone is working (if it actually is and not a hallucination)? I mean back in the day, the phones were separate lines from the power lines. So having a generator wouldn’t make a phone magically work. Also, what phone line is functioning months after the zombie apocalypse has started when Rick couldn’t even make contact on a radio (which are always the last devices to go)??

Carly: Why does the one girl we’ve seen on wall duty have to be really, really terrible at her job.

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