2.

Video diary sequence to open was excruciatingly bad. Didn't anybody bother to figure out the light pattern sequences? It would be easy to figure out if somebody was alive, even if Chris/Madison/Travis didn't know morse code if it was a repeating pattern.

The military leader in charge of the camp seems like some sorta reject villain from a straight to video kid's movie. Who in the hell wrote his lines? And why is everybody expecting everything to be back to normal little more than a week after the shat hit the fan? Everybody was in constant bitch mode that the military hasn't immediately regained ravaged walker infested territories or restored human services like power.

Somehow the show has managed to make the ZA collapse of society as boring as possible. Pace is still awful. Pretty much all the characters are boring and difficult to get invested into. A huge disappointment.

 

Like I just wrote, even if they didn't know morse code, a repeating pattern is probably a sign of life. If somebody was just flashing light randomly, that is stupid on their part. It'd appear as something Travis was trying to argue early in the episode - some reflective material moving in the wind.

 

At first I was like 'I hope it's Tobias!!'
After the rapid gunfire and certain death, I was like " I hope it's not Tobias!!'

It would be cool to think Tobias was trying to warn Mrs C of the impending clusterphuck the military is about to unleash- that was my first thought anyway. Whoever it was, Travis essentially got them killed.

 

Another 8. This show is solid but not great.

 

I'm sure it didn't, but if it had anything to do with Tobias or Morse code, I will lose my F'ing mind..

 

When I first read this I honestly thought you had typed "so she was already passed the point of thinking it was random fapping"

 

The person doing the signaling must be injured or being held. The streets look like you could make it to the safe zone. It is possible they are not letting people into the safe zone so they are stuck at this point so they are hoping someone could help and desperate enough to risk getting caught by the military.


My rating is low about a 1.8 rally missed opportunity to do something interesting and stuck to the still lame Dr. Phil storyline. The opening video diary was awful high school drama class stuff. Maybe they will actually do something next week. We get they are a bewildered dysfunctional blended family in the middle of a plague thing captured/protected by the military with all that virtually nothing happened.

 

This episode is a 6 from me. I can appreciate it was a high quality episode, but it lacked grip from me - it started to get good in the last 10 minutes then finished just as it was about to hook me. I love the show, however I was left with a bitter taste in my mouth when it finished.

 

I agree...I keep watching this because I love TWD and I want this show to be great too. But it's not.
It feels like it has been written by 15 year olds for 15 year olds. Too many unbelievable story lines...just in this episode alone we had...
- a nine day time jump to avoid really showing how the World collapsed
- a totally unrealistic 9 day building of a safe zone by the military (and why there??)
- no zombies anywhere (is this event happening on the same planet as TWD occurs?)
- unrealistic character behaviour e.g. Travis going for a jog, the lack of reaction to the military behaviour by some at the end, a general lack of real fear being communicated by what's going on in the world etc.

Last week we had an unbelievable human riot scene over virtually nothing...much cheaper than having to actually film lots of zombies attacking people as the virus spreads, I guess. At every stage it feels like the filmmakers have gone for the cheapest possible way to show the story line. As somebody said, 9 days after the apocalypse in a major city and we've seen about 10 zombies, if that.

However, I will still keep watching for now - as I really want it to be good.

 

Yeah, I hate when they give us 40 mins of Suck, then 3 mins that is good and exciting, then FU, it's OVER.;-)

 

Is it really a walking dead show if they don't show walking dead? Yawn. Is this LA, or some rural hamlet in North Dakota?

 

You have human penile detectors?:zombies_shocked:

 

I can see the fall of L.A. in 9 days. If you cut the power, and blocked the roads so no food could get in (24 hours a day there are trucks down the freeways to supply L.A.) when people realized (and fear would do this quickly whether it was true or not) that this was going to be permanent, that there wasn't going to be anymore food in the market, there was never going to be any power, or gasoline, and those monsters out there were never going away... L.A. would get scary in a hurry. Much faster than a small town would.

 

While I can agree in concept with what you suggest I don't think it would look anything like it does now too.
Where did everyone go?

 

I agree completely. They are in the foothills though, not the flat part of the city, so maybe they just can't see the ravages of what lies beyond.. I'm hoping in the last episode of the season they are going to show a massive horde of zombies coming their way over the hilltop.