Season Five Easter Eggs in Episode Titles

The Season Five Episode 12-16 titles are:

• "Remember"

• "Forget"

• "Spend"

• "Try"

• "Conquer"

These one-word titles are all connected, which doesn’t seem to be the case with the previous two titles, “What Happened and What’s Going On,” and “The Distance.”

What connects them? The Spoiling Dead Fans posted about this on Tumblr. Here’s what they wrote:

The titles seem to a be a reference to a story by William Faulkner that Dale told the group around the camp fire in Season 1.  

"I like what the father said to the son when he gave him a watch that had been handed down through generations. He said: ‘I give you a mausoleum of all hope and desire which will fit your individual needs, no better than it did mine and my father before me. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you may forget it. For a moment, now and then, and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it.’”

Wow! Dale made that speech back in Season 1, Episode 4, "Vatos" (which was written by Robert Kirkman) when asked why he still bothers to keep time. 

It is awesome that the Scott Gimple and the writers continue to reference past characters like Dale into the story.

Remember that Glenn knew where to find another battery in the RV, because of Dale’s lessons too.

Season 5 Finale Will Be 90 Minutes Long

Rick loves his pistol, "Blendy"

AMC announced today that the Season 5 Finale will be extended to 90 minutes, serving up an extra 30 minutes of walker-filled mayhem before the series breaks for the summer.

The Season 5 finale airs on Sunday March 29 at 9/8c followed immediately by The Walking Dead after show, Talking Dead.

Let's hope this isn't just an excuse to cram in half an hour's worth of commercials!

We Are The Walking Dead

“When I was a kid, I asked my grandpa once if he ever killed any Germans in the war. He wouldn’t answer. He said that was grown up stuff, so…. So I asked if the Germans ever tried to kill him, but he got real quiet. He said he was dead the minute he steeped into enemy territory. Every day he woke up he told himself, ‘rest in peace—now get up and go to war.’ And then after a few years of pretending he was dead, he made it out alive. And that’s the trick of it, I think. We do what we need to do, and then we get to live. But no matter what we find in DC I know we’ll be okay, because this is how we survive. We tell ourselves that we are the walking dead.”

Rick Grimes rarely discusses personal details with the rest of the group, but in Season 5, Episode 10, "Them", he states what is sure to become the most iconic pieces of dialog in the series.

With Bob, Beth and Tyreese gone, everyone in the group is finding it difficult to go on, compounded by the lack of food and water (the dogs probably weren't too filling). Rick’s speech, given in a desolate barn is intended to inspire the group.

According to Andrew Lincoln, "Them" is the closest The Walking Dead has come to a  Cormac McCarthy story.

He told Entertainment Weekly:

"When I was preparing for the first season of this show I read a few things and The Road was one of them. I just thought that is a modern parable. I mean that’s what it is: It’s a kind of classic parable and that’s the closest thing I can equate it to. I think there’s a simplicity, a directness, and a poetry in that book. Certainly the script had it and I hope we’ve managed to capture that in episode 10."

What did you think of Rick's speech in Episode 10?  Did you prefer the comic version?

Who Will Be In The Walking Dead Spin-Off

Here is what we think is going to go down by the end of Season 5 on the Walking Dead. Purely speculation, but you heard it hear first.

Noah, played by Tyler James Williams, will re-unite with Morgan played by Lennie James as a nephew or similar relative. This pair, will with a few other members of the hospital and Rick's group go in a different direction than the rest of the Walking Dead cast, and onto a new spin-off show, or at least long enough to kick it off as Morgan did on the parent series.

Morgan, who appeared in Season One, and for the great episode, "Clear"  in Season 3 was teased at the end of the first episode this year, after the credits, but we have not seen him since.

Morgan was the first person that Rick (Andrew Lincoln) encountered when he woke up from his coma in Season One. Morgan had saved the life of the former policeman, who was disoriented and unaware of the zombie apocalypse plaguing the world since he was hospitalized.

As he adjusted to the new situation, Rick briefly stayed with Morgan and his young son, Duane (Adrian Kali Turner). The father and son taught Rick how to defend himself and parted ways after raiding the local police station for guns and ammunition.

Rick wanted to leave the area and search for his family in Atlanta; however, Morgan couldn’t leave until he killed his "walker" wife.

Rick held onto a radio throughout Season One as a way for Morgan to get in touch if he decided to head to Atlanta. Many episodes led off with Rick talking into the radio to an unavailable Morgan.

In "Clear" found Rick, Carl (Chandler Riggs) and Michonne (Danai Gurira) searching for weapons at Rick’s old police station. It was in town that the group ran into Morgan. But Morgan wasn’t the same man who Rick had met in the past. Time and loss had changed him. Morgan had failed to kill his zombie wife. He explained that he had been too weak to pull the trigger, dooming his son. Duane had been approached by his reanimated mother, who attacked and bit him. Since then, crazy Morgan had holed up in a building with guns, ammunition and booby traps to stop any walkers in the area.

Morgan had refused to return with Rick’s group, who were staying at the prison at the time. The character’s fate remained a mystery until this season. Wearing a mask to cover his face, Morgan had been tracking man-made marks throughout the woods.

TVLine has reported that the Walking Dead spin-off will focus on two small families as well as another character, comprising the six central figures in the spin-off series. There will be the Cabreras, a father and son; the Tompkins, a single mother with two teenaged children; and Andrea Chapman, who is reeling from her own personal tragedy.

The full cast as listed by TVLine includes:

SEAN CABRERA | A Latino male in his early 40s, Sean is a good man trying to do right by everyone in his life.
CODY CABRERA | Sean's whip-smart and rebellious teenage son. Known as the angriest kid in town.
NANCY TOMPKINS | A thirtysomething single mom to two kids, Nancy looks like the girl next door, but there's an edge to her.
NICK TOMPKINS | Nancy's screwed up teenage son. He's too old to stay home, too scared to flee.
ASHLEY TOMPKINS | Nancy's mostly level-headed teenage daughter. Her ambition is in direct proportion to her older brother's failures. She loves her mom but it's time to get out of Dodge.
ANDREA CHAPMAN | A somewhat wilted flower child, fortysomething Andrea — yep, another Andrea! — has retreated to the outskirts of the city to recover after a horrible marriage.

So far there is no official word that Williams or James will be in the new series, or in next season of The Walking Dead, so we feel that as guest characters, the pair will serve as a bridge between the two shows, and possibly hopping in between them in the future.

Some Gruesome Walkers From Season 5 So Far

Eugene Explains The Mullet

From Season 5, Episode 5 - "Self Help"

 

In honor of Eugene, here are a few more awesome mullets:

What is Father Gabriel Up To?

Can't wait for Episode 3!

The Walking Dead: Season 5 Trailer Will Blow Your Socks Off

Get an early look at the new season before it premieres on Sunday, Oct. 12 at 9pm.

Boom!

The walkers are looking rough too.