He could be right though. Having the beams on the outside could be a condition made between the crew and the residents for filming. I'm sure they'd have minor conditions like that if there was going to be a metal wall set up around their neighbourhood for several seasons of a TV show.

 

Too true. I'm around profs all the time. Those that don't have practical experience are easy to spot and can make some ridiculous answers to practical questions. I wonder just how secure those walls are.
And "professor of architecture" could imply that Reg knew the history of architecture, not actually how to build something.

 

I remember this summer when the wall was going up it was brought up about the wall withstanding high winds etc. Since residents really live on the property. It might have been constructed like that for safety and possibly appearance within the walls.

 

Yeah, depending on prevailing winds in the area the walls as positioned might have been at risk of being pushed over and so the support beams were needed to stop them falling over on the actual site in real life. Plus if the support beams were inside the walls that would significantly impact on the access to the land of the residents who already have to put up with a view of ugly steel walls for however many years.

 

Yep, you're absolutely right there. Maybe it's one of those things that they don't even bother about - I understand from people who know guns that they continually stuff up the realism of the guns (this is not the sort of thing I'd notice), I know from my own background that they continually stuff up the realism of injuries and infections, etc., now they're just stuffing up the realism of engineering.

 

Deanna probably killed Reg herself after she looked at the wall and noticed the supports are on the wrong side?

 

You type the word "duh" on this forum, you risk your life.

 

It could also be that the prof fell back on his training, or history. The old cathedrals had flying buttresses outside of the building to keep the weight of the roof from buckling the walls outwards, so the prof might have designed it that way thinking that's what needed to be done in general, forgetting there's no roof to support.

But I like my theory: How do you shoot at someone who's hiding right outside your wall? Pull up a large truck inside the compound, perhaps with an elevated platform on top of that, and shoot down. with no supports inside, you could drive the truck around wherever, like a puck in a hockey rink.

 

Argh, I dunno about the "supports on the outside of the wall because the people who live here in real life wouldn't like the look of it" theory.
I mean it might be the actual reason, but I would've thought that if the sole point of being there was to film a TB show, if you couldn't get it to look the way you need it to look, then what's the point in using that location?
I'm more in favour of the supports being on the outside to illustrate that these guys actually don't know what they're doing. They've never experienced zombies in large numbers before so don't know what a large group of them can do to a fence.

 

Can we start calling them "braces", instead of support beams? (Said the carpenter.)

 

This is true. Beams run horizontally. Columns run vertically. Braces run diagonally.

 

I was thinking about this too- and apologies if it has already been said. I think they act more as support beams. Cause too where are all the L shaped concrete blah? Underground? Is the gate anchored by the concrete barriers? If they are it'd make sense that those are support beams, and if they are one cld assume if your fence falls you want it to fall in not out? Maybe..

I don't know thinking about that makes my head spin. That's why I celebrate Engineers day. Or celebrate the need for one.

 

Maybe I shld read thru the thread.. Geez, I am lazy.

Has anyone said anything about Douglas being MIA? Obviously they're replaced him with this Reg character but it wasn't clear to me whether he was dead or alive?
At one point Deanna talks about him as is- present tense
Then next she says was-past
Anybody got any thots?
Or am I being dumb for not reading the thread...

 

She only referred to him in the past tense because her and Rick were talking about whether who people were before the ZA was still important. So she was saying 'who he WAS was important', meaning who Reg was before the ZA, and what his occupation was. I think he's still alive.

 

Read the thread, it's worth it. What I am saying is Reg was one of the three De banished.

 

Oh got ya- yeah I was being lazy.. I get it now, so they kinda made a douglas/alexandria hybrid and named him reg and threw him to the wolves? Only joking about the wolves thing. Realized after I wrote it..
Hmm.. Interesting, that's why I enjoyed this episode- seeing or contemplating hoe they are gonna spin these new characters, hoe there gonna keep em the same. Thanks for that!

 

Possibly, but I kind of doubt it. If that were the case, I think she would have said 'my husband WAS a professor of architecture'.

 

Something that was kind of odd was that Deanna was on business in D.C. when the shit hit the fan, and was on her way back to Ohio when they got stopped and sent to Alexandria. So, why would her entire family, including adult son Aiden have been with her on her business trip? Its not an error, because its possible they all travelled together, like if she was getting honored at some event for something, but its just a bit odd.

Another thing that is odd is that the military sent them to the ASZ when it didn't even have walls. It had running water and the microwaves worked, so what? If all hell was breaking loose with corpses eating people, the military wouldn't send people to a random unprotected neighborhood just because it had back up power. If they were going to direct them anywhere, it would be a military base or somewhere that had fences and walls.

 

I understood it as she was working/living in dc and was headed back to Ohio after the shit hit the fan to "help her district manage the crisis." That's how I took that- and she prolly, if she's from that district, had family there and/or friends that she wanted to get back tll. So she also took her family.. But I cld be wrong.

It was a gated community then tho, I think too least I was also under that impression. Its even better that its completely green/ sustainable. Even with microwaves, etc. They might have had a military escort and ran into a herd or something some obstacle that stopped em, and the military scouted and found the place nearby. In the beginning before they knew the whole size and magnitude of the crisis- I'd take a sustainable community any day! And build walls later. Which i was too under the assumption of why she mentioned the military was gonna come back, to help protect possi build the wall- but they never did. She said some people were living there, all the homes were sold or something like that, and it was a gated community- so I think it had some sort of wall. Even if it didn't sleeping in a house with water and power over one with none gate or not wins any time.

My question is the burnt out houses in the area- I wonder if the military did that too?