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Generated by VeryPDF RSS to Email Subscription'The Walking Dead' Makes Another Life-Or-Death Decision
23 November 2015, 7:00 pm






This walker is a spoiler-free representation of Sunday night's important episode of The Walking Dead on AMC.



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This walker is a spoiler-free representation of Sunday night's important episode of The Walking Dead on AMC.


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SPOILER ALERT: This column discusses events from Sunday's Walking Dead episode. Read with care if you haven't already seen the show. It was the biggest head fake in recent television history. Fans of The Walking Dead Sunday finally got an answer to the question that had been on their lips since late October, when long-running character Glenn Rhee was shown tumbling into a crowd of flesh-eating undead from the top of a dumpster with a hapless friend who had just shot himself. What we saw last night was the simplest of explanations. As some sharp-eyed fans noted, Glenn was positioned under his suicidal buddy Nicholas when they hit the ground, so the "walkers" (Walking Dead never calls them zombies) tore Nick's body to shreds. Though the Oct. 25 episode made it seem Glenn could have been on the menu, too, it turns out that he simply pulled himself under the dumpster and waited until the crowd of walkers left, to emerge freaked out but largely
unscathed. This, of course, has freaked out some fans who have relished the show's ruthlessness in killing off major characters. Saving Glenn in such an obvious way makes the scene shown in October – and the weeks of "is he dead?" speculation the show encouraged – feel like the kind of desperate ploy a program might try in its sixth season to stay relevant. The extent to which producers were nervous about faking out the show's devoted fan base was obvious during Sunday's post-episode analysis show Talking Dead. Host Chris Hardwick deftly avoided all but the briefest acknowledgement of fan anger during the show, focusing mostly on the joy that supporters of the character felt in seeing Glenn emerge alive. That highlights a longstanding criticism of Talking Dead – that it's a vehicle for managing fan expectations and enthusiasm to benefit the series, rather than a real platform to dissect all the questions on viewers' minds. "Sometimes good
guys survive," said Steven Yeun, who plays Glenn, during Talking Dead. Showrunner Scott Gimple explained further: "The story we were telling is one of uncertainty...When they leave (their homebase), that could be the last time you see them. (His wife) Maggie didn't know what happened to Glenn, and I wanted the audience to be exactly where she was." Mission accomplished. But at what cost? On the Oct. 25 Talking Dead episode after Glenn's dumpster plunge, Lost executive producer Damon Lindelof noted how TV shows often have "unkillables" in their cast. These are characters whose storylines are so central to the series, they can't leave the program until the show is over. The strength of the Walking Dead has always been the sense that very few characters are unkillable. Hero Rick Grimes, sword-wielding Michonne and arrow slinging hunter Darryl are surely among the toughest to remove. But fans still had a sense, even if it was sometimes pretense,
that the roster of unkillables on this show was smaller than many others. The reason: preserving the show's brutal sense of reality was more important. Realistically, it's tough to imagine this head-fake harming Walking Dead's popularity in the short term. Many fans had already concluded that the character was alive. For my part, given how handily Glenn shatters stereotypes about Asian-American TV characters, I'm mostly just relieved to see he hadn't died in such a pointless way. In the long term, however, the show has likely lost a little bit of credibility with fans. They now know how far the program will go to mislead them and avoid killing a favored character. It's not the kind of move that sinks a series alone. But too many maneuvers like it will, especially if the thin line between masterful and manipulative storytelling is violated once too often.


Records: Suspect in pastor's wife's death to face 13 charges
23 November 2015, 6:14 pm
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- An 18-year-old man arrested in the fatal shooting of an Indianapolis pastor's pregnant wife during an apparent home invasion will face 13 charges, including murder, according to court records updated Monday. Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry scheduled a Monday afternoon news conference to announce criminal charges in Amanda Blackburn's killing, but provided no other details. Online court records show Larry Jo Taylor Jr., who was arrested overnight on a preliminary murder charge in her death, faces 13 charges that include murder, burglary, criminal confinement while armed with a deadly weapon and robbery resulting in serious bodily injury. It wasn't clear if all the charges arose from Blackburn's killing, or if they might also include charges stemming from Taylor's alleged involvement in the burglary of a nearby home shortly before she was attacked. Taylor was being held at the Marion County Jail and it wasn't
immediately clear whether he has an attorney who can speak on his behalf. Blackburn, 28, was shot in the head during the Nov. 10 attack at she and her husband's Indianapolis home and died the next day. The couple's 15-month-old son, Weston, was at home upstairs in a crib but was not harmed in the attack. Her husband, Pastor Davey Blackburn, had gone to the gym that morning and returned home to find his wounded wife, who was 13 weeks pregnant at the time. He said in a statement Monday that he's "extremely relieved" police have arrested a suspect in her killing but said it doesn't "undo the pain we are feeling." "Though it does not undo the pain we are feeling, I was extremely relieved to get the news of the arrest made last night of Amanda's killer," Davey Blackburn said. Blackburn said investigators have told him they have a "solidly-built case." Blackburn said he hopes the "court system would have wisdom on how to prosecute this man, so that no one
else endures the pain Amanda and our family have had to endure because of his actions." Police have not released additional details on Taylor's arrest or the allegations he faces. Officers from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department's gang and violent crime units arrested Taylor with help from U.S. Marshals, police said in a news release. "All victims of criminal homicides deserve closure, and as a community we must send a collective message that violence is not an option," Police Chief Rick Hite said in a statement. "Our detectives have worked tirelessly going days without sleep to solve murders in our city." Authorities said investigators would continue to follow all leads, including talking with individuals who may have knowledge of the case. Taylor also faces misdemeanor public nudity and public indecency charges stemming from an unrelated June incident where he allegedly exposed himself to a woman in a parking lot, court records show.
Investigators believe the suspect, whom neighbors also reported seeing walking in the area, may have seen Davey Blackburn leave that morning shortly after the suspect allegedly burglarized a nearby house. Police had sought the public's help by circulating images of a man caught on home surveillance cameras. The Blackburns moved to Indianapolis from South Carolina to found the independent Resonate Church in 2012.



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