I agree that this whole season has been very slow. It's almost as if they planned to develop the characters but could not settle on a good way to bring anything out of them. Too many of the characters seem to be stuck in the same pattern of emotions and actions like a scratched record. I still like the acting, the production, and the stories, but the characters did stall out pretty bad this season (bar Shane, Dale, and maybe Andrea). In fact, maybe that's the issue, they have "too many characters" to develop in a show that relies on slow-paced storytelling and person-to-person conversation to convey all of its points. They need to bring out some different dramatic elements to spice this up and also leave Hershel's farm to find a more "active" setting.
Andrea - independent, motivated, searching Dale - custodian, weak, paternal Glenn - adventurer, immature, curious T-Dog - no idea for him. Probably should have died when he cut his arm. Carol - victim, lonely, lifeless (Sad, she exists/existed only to help make Daryl a more desirable protagonist.) Sophia - innocent, symbol, sacrifice
I have a friend who TiVo'd the series from me and I just got around to finishing the season. I think the time it took me to get around to watching the last two episodes tells me all I needed for this series. The show floundered on the two kids. First, Sophia getting lost and then, Carl getting shot, meant the crew was forced to stay on Hershel's farm for most of the season. Carl's near death was a classic Stephen King horror-aftereffect (because the world is in ruins, the simple fixes, like a real surgeon and enough blood for transfusions, are not available). But King uses these as sidebars to the story, they don't drive the narrative like Carl's deathbed scenes do here. I'll keep watching, but the only character I really have any affinity for is Darryl.
I have watched the entire show between Tuesday night and tonight. The only real compliant I have is that they want to stay at this farm so badly but if everyone else in this community is dead, arent there several other farms just like that one where the people that lived there gone meaning they can go get their own farm with a big house, equipment, barns, etc? They probably even have generators and gas at the other farms. I know it would kill the show for them to stay but it just seems like such an obvious fix for their situation. They would have a place to stay out their days and it would be their's forever.
It seemed perfectly necessary. They werent getting out of there and that meant three would be dead instead of just one. I knew it was going to happen before it was shown. If it were my child that got shot or yours, I would have done the same thing.
I cannot believe about all the bitching in this thread about this show. This show is better than 99.9% of what is on TV. I dont really see any of the issues you guys have. When you have lots of characters, you dont get development. We are only 13 episodes into the show which is the equivalent of a single season on cable television. Give it some time to work itself out. If you dont like it, dont watch it. This thread reminds of the USMNT N&A forum.
There's these other things called book and film. You should check them out. If you love TV so much, they are going to blow your mind!
So, I took your advice and decided to read a book and watch a film. I found a book that looked interesting. It was pink, so that was weird, and it had a long-haired, shirtless man on the cover and a woman in a torn dress. Sure looked windy, but there was a ship in the background, so I thought it would be an epic tale of swashbuckling on the seven seas. The film I chose was with a Canadian thespian by the name of Thomas Green, I believe. It was called Freddie Got Fingerer. My mind was not blown! I hold you responsible.
You're just like the rest of the haters on this thread! That "epic tale of swashbuckling" (pun intended?) is probably better than the crap my daughter reads. Talk about implausible. Fish in a tree? Sheesh, how am I supposed to believe this crap?
Here is the trailer for the upcoming episode: http://theclicker.today.msnbc.msn.c...50-walking-dead-midseason-premiere-sneak-peek Was this show late getting a full order on the second season? What was the reason for the delay in the rest of the season? It is odd that a cable show doesnt get a complete run through of episodes.
Mike, I believe he means that his expectation for the series has waned with time. I am of the same opinion.
Apart from the final five minutes, this was more of the same shit. But those last five minutes at least give me a smidgen of hope for improvement.
The scene in the bar was very well done... ripe with mood... characters learning about each other... I liked last season(unlike so many of you), so i was completely thrilled about the whole thing...
I find it really odd that Lori just went and took a car to drive somewhere that she was not sure where it was. It just seemed like an out of place action just to create a wreck and make something happen. She seems smart enough not to just leave without telling anyone, especially whens he needed a map to get to where she was going. Why did she need them back there so badly anyway? Rick already went to get Herschel, why did she think she would rush things any more. That whole think just really irked me because it just seemed like the writers took a big leap to make something happen. It's like since Sophia was found, they need something else to take the attention of the group.
What I don't understand is the need for a map to go into a town that only seems a few miles down the road. That entire scene was a cheap ploy to create some more dramatic tension.
Agreed. More of the same, and then the final 5 minutes gave me hope. This show needs intense action and quick resolutions. I liked the fact that the bar encounter ended with a killing and not dragging those two new guys back to the farm for a long-winded and overly wrought series of episodes where they fritter on about how the new guys aren't very polite or nice. Agreed. That part was poorly done. Her character is starting get on my nerves. She is always tense, panicky, and confused.
Exactly. It was lazy writing to create a new dramatic event now that the Sophia issue is done. A lot of people bitched about this show in previous episodes but I think it has been solid up until this. That made this the worst episode in the show IMO. I also think I missed something in the bar. Why did Rick shoot those guys? I know they were armed but none of them drew on him or anything.