The Walking Dead...Season 2...

There's still 6 episodes left in the Season, and if it's anything like the comics, they are likely leaving Herschel's farm to head to either a gated community or Fort Benning.

 

Right, but last night was the "mid-season finale" and they won't pick up again until February

 

This review of the most recent episode really sums up my feelings of the show lately. Warning - Spoilers if you're not caught up yet.

http://www.grantland.com/blog/holly...ilitateimprisonkill-in-judge-jury-executioner


I think the writing and plot lines have really gone downhill since they had a complete overhaul of the writing staff after the 1st season.

They should rename this show "The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Zombie Apocalypse Survivor Assholes".

Seems like all the characters (except maybe Shane, the supposed bad guy) are about 10 times stupider and more irrational then they were the first season.

Still watchable for now, but increasingly frustrating, bordering on laughable at times.

 

Last week's episode is frustrating to watch, Rick's kid is a retard and should have died when he was shot in episode 1 of season 2.

 

Here's my question heading into the Season finale: why is it such a big deal? Herschel must have at least one or two wheat threshers and tractors? A hay truck or two? Get someone to lure the walkers onto the open road, run towards the wheat thresher, tractor, or hay truck, and then mow down the walkers. Run back and forth a few times: problem solved.

 

No shit.. Everyone on the farm has all day long to secure the property. How about a barbed wire fence and a moat surrounding the house? Fuck the soap opera drama and worrying about who the baby's daddy is, secure the damn farm.

The thing that frustrates me is how shocked the group is when a zombie shows up. Just like Dale walking up to the cow with that "Holy shit, a cow with his stomach ripped open. How on earth could that have happened?" expression.

And how about NOT walking out into a big open field at night during a Zombie Apocolypse? I need to check with Mark Zuckerberg from 'Zombieland' to find out what rule that is, but I'm sure it's on the list.

By the way, the second half of Season 2 kicked the first part's ass.

 

Agree with every point. That would be my first and last priority. I would get barbed wire and make pit traps every couple of feet near the house. All you would need is sharpened sticks and some damn tarps. For that matter, I would have at least a dozen sharpened katanas on hand. One of those up through the throat into the head, and stir the brains around for a second. It would be mainly stabbing weapons for me as an axe would be too heavy after awhile against quick moving walkers.

This warrants a thread.

 

Good post.
I thought as much toward the ends of 1st series.

Like all modern TV shows, it lost the plot....only quicker than the others.

 

You mean Jessie Eisenberg. He played Mark Zuckerberg (creator of Facebook) in the movie The Social Network.

Regarding the show; I was shocked by the ending of the last episode. I hated the character, but he was still needed as he was the shows only antagonist. Is this supposed to be the final season?

 

I'm pretty sure he was being tongue-in-cheek.

They will definitely have to bring in another antagonist. Maybe the other group they alluded to. Has Daryl's brother ever turned up yet?

I actually liked Shane a bit in his less manic moments. He had more depth and complexity then any of the other characters by a long shot.

I found it odd they killed both Dale and Shane in back to back episodes. Renders their long built up rivalry as the "conscience" and the "cold-blooded decision maker" (usually rail-roaded by Rick of course) of the group, as fairly moot.

Rick, his idiot son Carl and Lady MacBeth can all go suck a bag of dicks as far as I'm concerned.

 

No, in fact the next episode will show lead-ins to plotlines for the following season. I recently came across a very detailed spoiler list for the final episode, and while I won't spoil anything, the next season looks to be interesting.

 

Certainly there'll be an antagonist, but it'll be someone different unless T-Dog contracts rabies. Merle has not shown up yet.

Interesting things are on the way. This week's episode sounds like it should be good, clean, person-munching goodness.

 

If Carl were to ever become zombified, Rick would hide him in the barn, take him out every couple of weeks to put him out of his misery, have a change of heart sometime between taking off the safety to his gun and actually pulling the trigger, and then usher him back to the barn amid the protests of all the other members of the group.

"I gotta sleep on it!" will become Rick's eternal rally cry.

They'll drag this out for 3 seasons and eventually they will stumble across a vaccine, for which only Ricks kid is a beneficiary to.

Carl gets better amid the ooooohs and aaaaahs of the tribe. Within hours of regaining his faculties, Carl trips over a pitch fork in a hay loft, falls into a pen of hungry pigs and is eaten alive, without anybody being any wiser about this unfortunate event.

Later on that night Rick and Lady MacBeth are sound asleep in their bed, no idea what has happened to their beloved son (because they are horrible parents). Daryl sneaks into their room and executes both of them in their sleep.

Next morning Daryl is named King by the grateful survivors remaining in the group. No more teeth gnashing by Rick to put up with, no more unfair rationing of the chores by Lady MacBeth, no more stupid fucking Carl putting the rest of the group in constant danger and getting away with it because he's just a stupid fucking kid and his mostly absent father is fucking torture to try to actually reason with.

The camera fades in on T-Dogg for the final scene of the show. He finally gets to talk..............we're excited. "I'd just like to say one thing to my new family and fellow travelers", he pauses............"Ya'll are some racist motherfuckers!"

Fade out..........Show ends.

Fini!

 

What is the deal with Shane and the guy from the other camp becoming zombies without ever having been bitten/scratched? Is this how it was in the comics?

 

Well, what did you guys think? Good ending? I said it before the episode began: why didn't Herschel just drive a few tractors and wheat threshers towards the zombies? Maybe run them over with that camper instead of the guy just basically waiting for them to come and eat him?

 

Jimmy, I hardly knew ye'.

Rick didn't give a fuck about Jimmy either. ::

When will one of the gang eventually wake up to the fact that every time that little cunt Carl ventures out on one of his little adventures............more of them die, directly as a result of his actions.

Daryl needs to gut that kid while he sleeps.

 

Great finale, but the obvious stupidity continues.

Seriously, driving around shooting zombies seemed like a good idea? It shouldn't have taken Rainman to do a quick head count and realize there were more zombies than ammo.

But Jimmy. Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy. Come on son. When driving through a herd (or is it swarm) of zombies, it's probably not a good idea to put the camper in 'Park' and leave the drivers seat.

Love ya Daryl and the chopper is West coast cool, but it probably falls in the bottom 2 on the "Best Vehicles to Drive During a Zombie Invasion" list right behind a 1982 Yugo. I'm sure I read that in 'Car and Driver' at some point.

I too love my sibilings. HOWEVER, if one is being eaten by a zombie while I'm holding their hand, it's time to let go. Maybe squeeze it one last time for good measure, but let the FUCK go and run.

Rick and skinny skank, listen closely. You can make more kids. Carl isn't working out. He wonders off. He's a dolt. He looks stupid and wears a ridiculous cowboy hat. Feed him to the zombies and cut your losses.

And finally, Asian dude. Your farmer's daughter girlfriend MIGHT be the hottest chick left on the planet. Eventually she might be the ONLY chick left on the planet. And you are, well, Asian. It's a pretty good deal dude. Tell her any 'Hallmark' Valentine card shit she wants to hear to keep her legs apart.

 

I literally yelled YES!!!! when Rick saved Herschel. Still, if it were me, I would get three or four friends, get some transport trucks or dump trucks/cement trucks from the city and just plow down zombies on that road. Just drive back and forth a few dozen times and they'd be goners.

 

Why didn't they just drive away to begin with; what was with all of the back and forth drive-by shootings? And no way in hell are they getting head shot after head shot while driving all manically like that.

Herschel was being a retard trying to go down with his farm. Just drive away and come back later after they've left if you really want to keep it.

I was shocked the writers had Daryl crack that Asians can't drive joke. It was funny and I liked Glenn's reaction to it, but you don't often see mainstream shows go there.

I was kind of hoping that Jamie Lee Curtis would get eaten. Her and Rick's wife Skeletor. I imagine the zombies aren't even that interested in Skeletor though. It's like bad beef jerky to them probably.

 

Supposedly Herschel was supposed to die, but they rewrote the scene last minute and decided to keep him around.

They even told the actor (Scott Wilson), this would be his last episode.

 

Good thing they didn't. I like him as an actor, and I think his story will be a lot more interesting than Lori's, Carl's, Carol's, T-Dog's, Glenn's, or Maggie's.

 

I thought for sure that either Glenn or Maggie were going to get it when they were switching seats in the car.

Despite being in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, if I were Rick, I'd look into a divorce. His wife is probably pregnant with his former best friends baby and after telling her of how the dude tried to set Rick up and kill him and in self-defense killed him instead she gets all pissy with him? She really has failed all tests of being a good wife.

 

She's a horrible human being. She should also keep a better eye on her asshole kid, instead of serving up everybody else in the group as human sacrifices, every time the dipshit wanders off.

 

I didn't think it was boring at all. Just preposterous, with far too many mind numbing lapses in logic to keep track of.

They've stolen the whole survivor group dynamic from "Lost", and plopped them onto a farm in the middle of a Zombie Apocalypse.

Problem is, after the 1st season, they dumbed it down, and "Lost", even at it's most preposterous and head-scratching moments, was still 1000% smarter and had 10,000 times more heart, then any episode of "The Walking Dead", the last season or so.

It was a solid show the first season, and now it's pretty much relegated to "Guilty Pleasure" status to me.

 

Season 2 is now on Instant Netflix......

I remember watching 6 episode while it was being shown on tv...but I can't wait...week by week...I missed a few episodes and wasn't able to watch it on comcast ondemand...


First 6 episodes drag like a motherfucker....3-4 episodes looking for Sophia...that fucking kid Carl is an annoying little shit.....Daryl is the man....fuck is Dale's problem?

 

at least one of them is gone....:dancingBaby: