How can you say it is impossible for empires that size? Just take a look at the sizes of some of the empires extant in the ancient world without long distance communications or steam engines. Rome did it, the Persians did it. Why couldn't modern man?

I will say this though, I really enjoyed Esposito's performance this episode, primarily during the flashbacks. He is easily the only good actor on the show.

I don't understand why this show has turned out to be so horrible, when you consider what an awesome show Kripke created with Supernatural (I almost can't believe I ended up loving not just one show, but two shows, from the CW, the other being Arrow).

Also, I thought I read somewhere that although Daryl originally was not in the comics, the writers saw how popular his character is on the show and so decided to write him into the comics. Pretty sure I saw that somewhere.

I still want Lennie Bruce back. If they have changed a lot from the comics, then they can have his character still be alive.

And, for the record, I remember being 10 years old and lusting like crazy over the teenage daughter of one of my mom and dad's friends.

I was disappointed in Jericho getting canceled just when it was starting to get good and move beyond the "survival crisis of the week" stories.

It is physically impossible for them to be ruling empires of the size depicted on that map, with no railroads operational (until this episode), and no telecommunications.

Also, most of my complaints about Lori, Herschel & Andrea not accepting the apocalyptic nature of their scenarios go like 800 times that for Charlie! She GREW UP in the post-apocalypse! She knows NOTHING else! She lacks even the excuses of the Walking Dead people who are having trouble adjusting to the new requisite mindset. That confrontation with Miles where she asks "What happened to that guy?" made me want to throttle her. Hey, dumbass, an apocalypse, some warfare, a breach of friendship, and the deaths or kidnappings of 75% of his surviving family members, THAT's what happened to your fun uncle!

Also, going after both the bomb and Danny was moronic. They divide their forces, knowing that if the bad guys have any sense, they're going to have their best or most guards on Danny, leaving an idiotic teenager to handle that herself. And what does stopping the bomb get them, aside from handing their enemy a superweapon? How about BOTH of them storm the prisoner car, snatch Danny and GTFO of the train? I be Miles doesn't fuck around with the door like an imbecile, AFTER signalling Danny to jump Neville or let Neville Jr get the jump on them.

Please. Her self-entitled whining about her gun last year, and pitching hissy fits over a professional firearms instructor's method of teaching, and getting a clean slate for shooting Daryl, in a completely retarded situation with no excuse other than her desire to beat Rick & everyone else to the kill of the presumptive zombie - all of that had be ready to write her off totally. I am hoping Michonne knocks some sense into her, by example if nothing else.

I think it was supposed to be a jury-rigged silencer, like the 2 liter soda bottle Mark Wahlberg used in shooter. Probably not very realistic, and even silenced firearms still make a lot of noice, more than they showed in this episode. It's just not as deafening and doesn't carry so far.

He isn't, but Sophia is. They changed a lot from the comics. In the comics, Shane died well before they got to the farm, and the bite & amputation that happened to Herschel actually happened to Otis (in fact, Herschel had to fix up the botched amputation). Dale, Otis & Patricia all made it to the prison, along with Herschel's son (different name than the kid who died in the RV in the finale - the farm was never overrun in the books), T-Dog, Beth & Daryl aren't in the comic books, Carl is way to young to be lusting after teenage girls, and Sophia survived way past the prison era. I think they met up with Lennie Bruce a ways down the road. But they do a lot of things differently. At this point in the comics, Dale & Andrea were boinking and she was on her way to becoming the group's top sniper, not wandering around all feverish with Michonne.

Somehow I doubt it.