But yes, I’m happy with this second season so far.

The real problem with the show is the writing. We’ve got some pretty great actors for a TV show, so no problems there.

The locations don’t need to be extravagent, in fact they can be anywhere.

So it all comes down to what the characters do and say and the situations they are placed in.

Here is the problem. The characters we’re supposed to root for are essentially stupid, and I mean dumb. In the large majority of cases they make their own trouble. Their fate isn’t sewn out in the wilds of a zombie infested world, it is right there inside their own stupid little pea brains.

What the writers should have done to make this program watchable (without us screaming at the TV about how stupid they are, and “what we would have done”) is to place smart characters in difficult situations with narrow choices.

It is the situation that should be out of their control, not their grasp of intelligence.

It would have made a greater series if they had spent it all just trying to cross a city, with all of the possibilities that could offer. Make it more like 24, where around every corner there are fresh dangers.

Instead we are left with idiots who lose children, split up to find them, limit who can carry guns, risk taking zombies out of wells when there are 4 other wells, …I wont go on.

Why couldn’t they lasso the well zombie from the outside of the well?

Did anyone else laugh at the dramatic peeing scene?

Just a few points.

I really hate it when the writing for a show gets disrupted like that.

I remember Heroes wasn’t going too badly until there was a writers strike and after that, lost all semblance of sense.

I am finding it strange that people aren’t outright hating Shane. He’s been close to rape, he told Rick’s family he was dead when that wasn’t true, he almost shot Rick in the back, and now Otis.
The big one for me, because there was no ambiguity about it, was when he had Rick in the crosshairs and was really thinking about it.

I really began to get worried in Episode 4 this season, the zombie in the well just seemed like an addendum to me. It’s like they forgot the concept of the show and tacked on that scene just to keep the zombie fans happy.

I hope it picks up, because this season is meandering like a zombie.

The bigger issue on a whole for me is the pacing. It moves way to slow. For instance, Carl was all better within three pages of being shot in the comic. I understand from a TV/Movie perspective that you’ve got to dramatize things, but spending almost a full episode at his bedside is a bit ridiculous.

The should really consider going the 6-8 episode route to tell an overarching story (like season 1), rather than stretching it out for 13 like they are this season. Not only that but look to the comic to get an idea of how to develop the characters.