For a man in his late 50's

In the words of Nathan Fillion, "He could bench-press your house."

Anyway, I agree; he's a badass scene-stealer in pretty much everything.

Let a little insanity into your life.

Yeah, he looks 15 years younger than he is. Hell of a performer. Steals every scene he's in in TWD.

Him & Stephen Lang ought to make a movie together: two middle aged buffed bad asses? What's not to like? Make them other baby boomer ashamed.

They have already been in a movie together, Tombstone as Ike Clanton and McMasters. Might as well bring them back in their own production! Great idea!!

Long as they 'keep it real' & don't end up being like those 'geriatric heroes' on 'Spongebob'....

Exactly my thought! He's awesome! A great actor!

I agree, I'm actually going for a miture between his physique and Dolph Lundgren's physique of the past 5 years. I'm an out of shape 26 year old boxer who would KILL to be in Lundgren's condition or even Steven Seagal's conditioning, which, as someone who has personally sparred with Seagal and trained with him, I can fully attest (I fought over 75 amateur boxing matches and MMA bouts, I've only lost 14 and won 38 of my boxing matches via KO and I'm also a 1st don Aikido and after that I concentrated on Jeet Kun Do and Krav Maga which really doesn't have belts or dons)--That Dolph and "Merle" are in fantastic shape. Rooker did A LOT of fight training and sparring and martial arts and especially cardio and leaning-out for this role. Which would make sense that he would have.

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Killing Merle was the biggest mistake on this show, I thought that having him kill the Governor's men and make it away shot and nearly comatose (by the time DAryl gets him back) would seal-the-deal on him getting cemented in the group. He'd be out of the main battle (ensuring he survives into season 4) but he'll have offed 8 men and may come back in for some rifle-based killing. Instead I saw his death coming a mile away and anyone who was paying attention did, too.

Daryl putting him down (Norman Reedus, who, at 5'9-ish is a small tough bastard, if I had his physique at 6'3 I'd still be over 200 lbs but i'd be quick as hell, I MIGHT be barely below if I had Norman's shape.) Him putting Merle down was genuinely upsetting to me, :(

I agree with you. I think that would have been a way better scenario for his character. Merle & Daryl were finally connecting again, than all of a sudden they kill him off. I thought the episode was very good, but I think Merle should have escaped while injured.

They always kill off all my favorite characters. Shane, Dale, Merle, T-Dog were at the top of my list of favorites. Now the only ones I like a lot still are Daryl & Rick. Maggie is cool too. Glenn I used to like in Season 2, but this season he's been kind of unlikable to me.