Obligatory intoxicated post bte. I <3 college.

I would like a little more of a "Dawn of the Dead 1978" feel to it, where Shane or someone clubs a zombie to death rather than one zombie being a near total predator. Rotting corpses should not be as nimble and strong as a 23 year old in shape male.

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This is becoming a soap opera in a survival situation. Shane shouldn't have knocked up the girl (whoose name I cannot remember). I mean, really, that was all in the past and her being pregnant is only a wrench to throw into the drama machine. Merle should not have shown up, since he had no way of knowing where they were going. Most survival groups would have given up on the girl, if not even to go so far as murdering the old guy. 

I would have been happy if they found/gave up on the girl in Cherokee Rose, and prepared to move on towards Ft. Benning. Season two is murdering a good series.

 

THIS.

 

I understand what they were trying to do, be the artsy zombie show that's focuses on the human element. In fact, this is what I've heard from all the fans of the show, how revolutionary it is to focus on human characters and use the zombies as a backdrop.

 

I'm assuming these people have never seen the original Night of the Living Dead, the original and remake Dawn of the Dead, 28 Days / Weeks Later, so on and so forth. Zombie movies have never been solely about zombies, they've always been cultural / humanitarian commentaries.

 

I was looking forward to the survival aspect of the show post-CDC, in fact it's why I was all giddy for a year straight after buying the first season Blu Ray and polishing it off in one sitting. Then I get here, they casually stumble upon a safehouse in the second episode, and now we have cheatin' wives, pregnancies, missing people, so on and so forth. The worst part is that the characters aren't even really that interesting, which makes the storytelling even more dull. Leave the character dramas to Mad Men.

 

Maybe the problem is that they're following the comic so closely. I really don't know, but I hope they return to the format of the first season soon because this on is losing my attention rapidly.

 

Glenn is the least smooth operator on the planet. When girls say "not even if you were the last man alive", they meant him in the most literal sense possible.

Unlikeable groups of characters only work on comedies. In a drama, especially a soap opera like this, it kills the suspense.

The arrow scene was completely cringe worthy in a good way, and reaffirmed that Darryl is the still best character on the show.

Shane is right, Rick is a pansy. No matter how bad the writers try to paint Shane, you could kill off everyone but him and Darryl and I'd still watch the show.

Dale needs to lower the medication. "What were you thinking?" Maybe that he hasn't reached an age where his libido and bowel control have dropped to that of two year old?

If Andrea had killed Darryl, I would have literally stopped watching the show.

HOLY CRAP THEY SAID THE N WORD.

K, so I'm assuming that Hershel is keeping all of his relatives / neighbors in that barn in hopes of a cure? That or he has the most bizarre sexual fetish since David Carradine. Overall the Darryl scenes saved this episode from being as bad as last week's, and it was nice to here Shane say what everyone else is thinking, but it doesn't take away from the fact that NOTHING IS HAPPENING. We're still mulling over the pregnancy and the little girl, we're still enforcing Andrea's attitude problems with Dale, and Glenn is screwing up a commitment free booty call in the apocalypse.

Lastly, is it just me, or does this farm keep producing new extras? Maybe I'm just not very observant, but I don't remember the blonde little girl or the 17 year old who's lived in the country and doesn't know how to shoot a gun.

 

I was really looking forward to that show, but to me it was kind of mediocre. By the title and the intro, I was kind of thinking it was going to be some gritty, semi-supernatural western. The

Just a straight up gritty western is going to be tough after Deadwood, at least on normal cable network. The camera work was pretty at least, nice visuals.

This episode is better, but still is dissappointing. I like Glenn personally, but the whole mulling around the farm bit is getting annoying.

Id be happy if in the next episode they found the girl, walkers invaded, and the convoy moved out with a few people dieing and a few farm people coming and a few others heading a seperate way.

BTW, the redneck guys invincibility is annoying.

 

I've been telling people since I was a kid that bullriding is the most blatant attempt at natural selection our species has ever made. It's seriously a sport where you win by getting your reproductive organs pounded the longest by your food source.

Nobody screws with Hank Williams Jr.

This episode would not have been so good had it been the 3rd or 4th. It started with some great dialogue and replicated the season with slow moments in the middle to build up to the finale. Yes, it sucked that we had this crummy drama for the past two months. Given this episode, the pacing of everything else makes sense.

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Cessman/Eville... the thing that annoyed me about the tank scene is he had jumped into an M1... and climbed out the bottom escape hatch. M1's do not have a bottom hatch, M60's do.

As for the Walking Dead, that scene in the bar was sweet, kind of made up for the slow pace of the rest of the episode. I also agree that I hope this signals the start of the pace picking back up again. When's the last time they were ambushed by walkers? Not counting the Barnageddon scene, they've been living this happy little utopian farm dream for a while now, I want to see some more walkers dammit!

This, now it can only get more interesting.

 

I haven't watched the episode yet, but a nurse at work spoiled it for me when she yelled out "OMG SOMEONE JUST SPOILED DALE GETTING KILLED ON WALKING DEAD WHAT A <EXPLETIVE>!"

 

 

Anyway, no worries there, I absolutely hated Dale.

 

Really and honestly, I'm starting to dislike most of the characters on the show. I keep half expecting Rick to flip them the bird and go do his own thing. Worst group of people to be stuck with in the apocalypse this side of an occupy movement.