The Walking Dead, Ghosts: Things To Note

1) This episode begins with a bump card. It’s the third episode in a row to begin with one, in fact, this entire season, thus far, has begun with bump cards, something not seen before in The Walking Dead.

2) As the episode begins formally, we see Carol use an egg timer as an alarm clock. With the community likely having limited electricity to spare, this is a clever way of having an alarm clock without actually using one.

3) After the “Hour 14” bump card, we see Michonne peer through her binoculars as another wave of walkers arrives. As we get the view through Michonne’s binoculars, it looks like the prominent walker on the right hand side (The one in the blue shirt) is a Whisperer. If this is true, it would mean that Alpha’s claim that the walkers weren’t being sent by the Whisperers was a lie (Which seems extremely likely), but, it also raises a question: Are the Whisperers so devoted to Alpha that they’d willingly sacrifice themselves to launch these attacks? I mean, all the walkers that arrive at Alexandria’s gates are slain, so, if Whisperers are leading them…they’re not coming back.

4) This is more of an addendum to my previous two Things To Note articles, seeing as how I hadn’t noticed them earlier: In the title sequence, just as we see the first stained glass window, you can also see Rick’s hatchet stuck into the branch above it. Additionally, since the beginning of this season’s second episode, “We Are The End Of The World”, as we zoom out from the skull with the pitchfork jammed into it, we can see the smoldering wreckage of the satellite in the background.

5) It’s interesting that, during the town meeting, Michonne starts referring to the Whisperers’ mega-herd as a “horde”, originally the Fear The Walking Dead terminology for a herd and the first time it’s been used in The Walking Dead. Michonne’s use of it for such a massive herd makes it seem like, at a certain number, a group of walkers is upgraded from a “herd” to a “horde”.