What About Bob?

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What's the deal with Bob? 

 

Is he a good guy with some demons? Is he broken?

 

Seems like he's got some issues. Some guilt. He didn't want to take credit for healing Sasha.

 

What think ye?


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Okay seriously, I think he does have some demons, but we don't have a lot to go on other than his clear alcoholism. He does have redeeming qualities though and is a potential huge asset to the group (once they get back together) with his army medic background now that Hershel got axed.


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Haha!  I was going to say that the next time we see Bob, he will be sailing.

 

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I agree that he has some demons, but I think he wouldn't take credit for saving Sasha because he was more interested in finding booze than finding medicine .
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Should I be ashamed to say I love that movie What About Bob? No? Cool. My thoughts, most people in the ZA are fighting demons, literally and figuratively. Everyone has a hang up they need to overcome, Bob's hang up is alcohol but what is the pain he's trying to cover up with liquor. I'd like to know, but to me he seems like a decent guy and has medical training, I'd keep him around.


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I agree that he has some demons, but I think he wouldn't take credit for saving Sasha because he was more interested in finding booze than finding medicine .

I think you're right.  I think his deal is that he's plagued by his alcoholism.  And I think he feels guilty that he focused only on getting booze rather than medicine during the supply run, so he didn't feel right accepting any of the credit for saving the sick.


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Will we ever find out what he was hiding in the box at the end of the first half of this season?   Remember when Sasha walked over and he closed the box hastily and "hid" it under his arm?

 

 

That's a loose end that I hope the writers tie up.   There's something about that box.


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Perhaps he was hiding the liquor he got when they were on the supply run in the box. If that is the case, Glenn used it to make a molotov cocktail to get Tara and himself out of the prison.


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He's more like the black guy that stands in the background while the main characters talk. But hey, he was very useful standing behind Sasha when they were letting out the bus walkers for Maggie,
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Bob does have his demons and he may certainly be an omen to this group but in the end he will be just another redshirt. In the end he won't have to worry about his alcoholism as he'll just become another cannibal along the journey.
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Eh.. he's here to die down the line. That's all I see him as right now. I care more about Sasha, Tara, Abe,Rosita, and Eugene getting development than him. I'm sure he'll redeem himself sacrificially at some point.


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I think Bob is a bad luck charm.....a Jonah


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I think Bob is a bad luck charm.....a Jonah

 

But he may very well be a fighter in the long run, booze or not, I think he has reached a turning point.

If he does have a red shirt on, he will go down fighting like...

 

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What's the deal with Bob? 

 

Is he a good guy with some demons? Is he broken?

 

Seems like he's got some issues. Some guilt. He didn't want to take credit for healing Sasha.

 

What think ye?

 

So far, Bob seems like a good guy suffering from a case of survivor's guilt.

 

In the episode where they went to get meds at the vet clinic, Bob told Daryl that he felt cursed, because he'd been the sole survivor of two other groups. He confessed that he drank to cope with it. Bob blamed himself for the death of Beth's boyfriend at the store where the roof caved in. He refused to allow Sasha to thank him for the meds, because he was more concerned about salvaging the bottle of booze he'd found.

 

I think Bob's fighting a losing battle with alcoholism, because he's fighting a losing battle with his guilt, especially now that his desire to acquire alcohol has begun to put others at risk. It's like a vicious circle.

 

Who knows? Maybe his drinking problem has been an issue for longer than he's let on. Maybe it resulted in deaths in his previous groups too and that's why he was so reluctant to join Rick's group. I suppose we'll have to wait and see.

 

I don't think Bob is a bad guy, but he definitely has a problem that doesn't bode well for anyone who has to rely on him.


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Heh, remember when we were wondering if he was a plant by the Governor?!


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Heh, remember when we were wondering if he was a plant by the Governor?!

I remember that as well. However, Kirman had stated somewhere that the Governor still had his influences on the prison before he showed up, however it was unclear what he meant with it. It never became clear afterwards either.


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I remember that as well. However, Kirman had stated somewhere that the Governor still had his influences on the prison before he showed up, however it was unclear what he meant with it. It never became clear afterwards either.

he was influencing peoples  behavior like microphone and her tracking expeditions.


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he was influencing peoples  behavior like microphone and her tracking expeditions.

If that was the only influence TG had on the prison, it is quite dissappointing.


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hmmmm...I don't trust him. There's something about him that's not right. I miss T-Dog & Dale- they would've figured him out fast.


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Dale would have raised only one eyebrow to figure out Bob.


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Bobby took a bullet in 4x08 "too far gone" I know they said it was a flesh wound and went right threw ho,

Still would he not need a a day a two lying down and well as a good cleaning fresh bandages and such,


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If that was the only influence TG had on the prison, it is quite dissappointing.

there was a few other small things as well Kirkman mentioned 

I cannot recall 


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Bob said the walker bit him on the bandage, and this stopped a bite. Later, Sasha noted it was still bleeding.

Is it possible Bob was bit and is hiding it?
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