Yeah I also didn't think Daryl was on shrooms. Also I must have missed something with Hershel being racist towards Glenn. Unless I missed a line of dialogue I only took his comments about Maggie staying away from him as he doesn't want any of them messing with his daughter. 1st off it's his daughter and secondly he doesn't want any of them staying around so he doesn't want anyone getting too close. He even said it was bad enough he had to keep an eye on his younger daughter and James (i think was his name) so he didn't want to have to worry about Maggie too.

I don't think Season 2 of The Walking Dead is as interesting as Season 1 was, it lacks freshness and the silly romantic subplot between the Chinese guy and the country girl is embarrassing, two grown-ups passing notes under a table, come on this is 6th grade Juvenile stuff. What were the writers thinking off??? (Probably using some of Merles drugs) :/

Daryl wasnt on mushrooms. Merle said daryl was on shrooms when he saw the chupakabra.

This is probably the best/Funniest explanation I read about the "Barn Zombies":

Hershel is a pimp-daddy, and has a semi-*********** sex club in his barn ("Meat Hershel House") for zombie fetishists.

This episode still didn't do it for me. More walking in the woods and stupid dialog. And how many more of the group will get seriously injured while close to the farm so that the vet can conveniently help them? As to the ending it was very anti-climatic. With lots having read the graphic novels it was very hard not to come across any spoilers regarding the barn, and even without the comics they heavily hinted at something going on at the barn - and this is a zombie show, so what else would we have expected? At least we got to see Herschel's generator, one mystery solved.

Again. I am not sure if it is the story itself or the writers of the show but do either just hate women or something. This has to be the most consistent group of women characters that are just completely incompetent. Lori is still a moron, Carroll has at least accepted that she is basically useless. And this week Andrea wins the award for biggest idiot. Not only did she not listen to the smarter and more experienced people in shooting at Daryl, committing the utmost sin in firearms shooting; which is to know what the hell your target is and what your are shooting at. But she does so again without experience with the weapon and not knowing what the heck she is doing. She was just as likely to shoot one of the group that wasn't Daryl. I didn't necessarily agree with dale of taking her gun specifically for the reason that he did. But now I am in support of it. Don't let the idiots use the guns. This episode was the perfect case in point. Even Maggie was kind of an idiot this week with the junior high school move of passing the note to Glenn right in front of her father. But really, is this the archetype they want to follow for women on the show. It has been at least 6 or so months that they have been in the zombie apocalypse shouldnt they be on their way to competence or at least not as blatantly stupid as they are. This aspect of the show is starting to bother me in spite of my affinity for the show in general.

As for the rest. The doc is confirming the backwoods racist stereotype and doesn't want the Asian near his daughter. Shane and Rick are coming into their conflict well, with Shane embracing the need to adapt to their current environment and Rick begrudgingly coming to the awareness that acting like this is still not the zombie apocalypse and that he needs to stop being nice and act in benefit of himself and the group. As much as I have had issues with the slow pace of the past few episodes. This is what I believe they have been heading towards. the conundrum of becoming like Shane or staying like Rick. But they did drag that out a few episodes too much. I know it isn't something to come to quickly, but they have been looking for Sophia and on the farm since the 2nd episode and that is a while.

Oh and the doc has walkers locked up in the barn. Brilliant. I am staring to think sophia isn't missing she is the only smart one and is staying the hell away from them on purpose.

And Daryl is still Daryl only with hallucinations. But still the sanest member of the group. If I was him I would follow his hallucination and be on my own.

WHOA! SO this Vet/Doc are crazy well beyond crazy to keep those walkers in the locked barn! Surprised that Everyone didn't hear them in that locked barn during the daytimes. WOW.. What a show! When we will ever find Sophia out there in the wood or she is one of those walkers locked in the Barn?

I really/really can't stand you as a reviewer. And before anyone asks I'm reading because I guess I'm part masochist, part can't look away from a train wreck. But really, you can't stand the show, but sort of liked the episode (I think?) As for flashbacks that explain to us part of the story, one word: Lost.

And as for teasing all of us about your special privileges as a reviewer of getting 2 DVDs, and having it, and dangling it in front of us, and now great you gets to watch it. Really? Really?

Let's hope that those who know from reading the graphic novel don't decide to post it here. My thought? They're going to use them as a test, of sorts, to see how long the Walkers can realistically stay, uh, walking. I mean, at some point the decay and lack of food (when all the humans are gone) has to make them un-animatable, right? So keep a couple around to see when death finally catches up with them, and then you know it's the bare minimum time when it's safe to go back out into the real world.

I don't know--any other reason is probably too horrible to contemplate.