Boy, the series took a huge nose dive into a pile of Elephant shit tonight.  Couldn't believe how it kept getting worse and worse.  I was looking away for most of it; not for shock or fear or fright, either -- Rather, because it was so badly done.

My favorite part of the evening came when the cast were faced with a problem and pulled a zombie inside to help them out with it... Then they sat around talking about who he was and why he was important and then they all agreed to talk about him for as long as they all shall live.  Yes, sounds pretty rainbow to me too.  But, I digress...  This tid bit of dialog was too good to pass by.

"Be careful not to get any on your skin or eyes... Now rub these Zombie guts all over me."


WTF?  I couldn't believe how absurd it got.  And only because they had no other choice but to move the story along.  It was such a horrible viewing and showing tonight.  I can't return to it.  I don't even care how it plays out now.  

Tonight we saw --

1.  A racial spat play out in cheesy fashion
2.  A Noah's arc of a cast, containing every racial background.  Asian, White, Black, Hispanic... And all of them were shoe horned into one location.  Crazy divine intervention!
3.  Stupid ideas like rubbing zombie parts on you to fool zombies.
4.  Typical best friend sleeping with your wife yawner.
5.  Everyone being in tune with the lingo like "Walkers".  

This show officially sucks the proverbial Donkey.

I'm going to agree with Baltis.
Episode two had none of the cinematic qualities of the pilot.
Another department store, another racist. Seen all this before.
This badly suffers from not having its feature film director helming the series.
Boardwalk Empire holds up much better without Scorsese than this does without Darabont.
I did laundry during this episode and didn't feel like I missed a thing. Meh.

E.D.

I'm gonna have to make it three.

I actually thought Baltis was on one when I read his comments yesterday, there is no way, I said to myself, that it could have gone so downhill, so quickly. Then I watched it...

The good news is that all the faults are with the writing. That is easy to fix, sack the writers and hire some better ones. There are enough horror writers here, why don't you knock a sample episode together and get it sent to the production company ASAP?

It was awful though.

The scene where the young kid showed them where the sewer was, he spewed out two big chunks of dialogue to serve as exposition so we did not question why or how he knew all of his stuff. Why?

They did not have to do that, that is screenwriting 101. He may have been new to us, but they had already made it clear these guys have been together for at least a short period of time. So if they don't question it then nor do we, an audience will naturally place our trust in characters who know more than us. I certainly did not start to wonder how he knew, simply because nobody else did.

It was full of bad writing like this, I am not sure it will get renewed if this is an indication of the rest of this season. Shame, it had a lot of promise.

Quoted from Murphy It was full of bad writing like this, I am not sure it will get renewed if this is an indication of the rest of this season. Shame, it had a lot of promise.

Murphy,

It was announced today that the series has been renewed for a second season.
Seas on two will be 13 episodes, as opposed to this year's 6 episodes.

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni5366400/

E.D.

Quoted from Electric Dreamer Murphy, It was announced today that the series has been renewed for a second season. Seas on two will be 13 episodes, as opposed to this year's 6 episodes. http://www.imdb.com/news/ni5366400/ E.D.

Me thinks they have jumped the gun a bit.

The are relying on episode two ratings after what was a great pilot, they should really wait and see how many people stick around for episode three, no?

I don't know, good news for some I guess though, get your samples sent in peeps. You never know...

T-Dog? Really?

Make room on the band wagon. Almost everything I liked about the first episode is gone. The first episode stuck closely to the comic, so I was excited to see how they'd deviate from the source material in this episode. Frank Darabont, you disappointed me... just like with The Mist.  

My biggest problem was that this episode didn't move the story forward. In the comic, Rick and Glen got out of the city almost immediately. Why? There was no real need for them to stay. Darabont is stretching the story out too thin, perhaps he's just trying to squeeze a few more episodes out of the comic. Frank, quality over quantity. I'd rather have a solid, well produced season consisting of four episode than one with six mediocre episodes.

Anyway, with this episode, the characters and dialogue were shit. I don't like that Darabont is showing how Laurie and Karl are alive. The audience should find them when Rick does. And did anyone notice the terrible CGI?

That was about what I expected, given the first episode.  More o' the same.  I had to wonder in that scene where the two guys are walking around with the zombie guts, would they really leave their entire heads gore-free?  I know, avoid the eyes, but how about a nice hat or hoodie piled with intestines?  

I'd like to know what Zombie Sean or thedeadwalktonite thinks of the show.

While I can't say I looked forward to seeing this, I didn't understand just how bad it could really be.  I wanted to shut it off after five minutes; somehow, I lasted thirteen minutes.

Why is it that there are so many cop shows out there written by people who know jack-shit about police procedure?  There are handbooks you can buy for this!

The opening scene:  the main character (the cop) drives along in this zombie-infested and stops to get gas.  Okay.  That's believable.  But why stop his car two hundred yards away from the pumps and walk the rest of the way?  Why stop your car (your safe place) and walk where you can't even see your car any more?  Why not drive up to the pumps, or as close as you can get to them?  Why not drive around the scene to make sure it is safe to get out the car?  

Cops are trained in the police academy not to leave the car until the area is secure. Driving around could've shown him if there were any problems.  Getting on the car's speakers could've done the same?  If he had asked "Is anyone there?" he could've learned if the zombie girl was around, or if there were people around.  If people came out, then it would be safe to say that the area is safe.

Second scene:  the flashback leading up to the main character getting shot.  In the academy, when a bunch of cops draw their weapons and get involved in a firefight, they don't stand near each other.  They certainly don't stand in front of each other where friendly-fire could take your partner's head off.  And they don't turn their backs on a crime scene until after the scene is secure.

Are these points really valid in a zombie world?  Or am I just bitching about some irrelevant nonsense?  They're valid points, of course.  When the main character of a show is a cop, and he starts off by doing some really stupid uncop-like things, then the shows level of realism starts that much lower.


Phil

Episode three...

Well...at least no one wore intestine sweaters this week.
Is it just me or has the production value gone down the toilet?
Recycled locations, minimal CG and the rooftop zombies looked pathetic.
Must be all that time they spend at the mall or something.
I feel like eps. 2 & 3 were loaded with padding. The season is only six episodes!
Is it just me or could have these two episodes been condensed into 30 minutes max?
Did anyone else spot all the on the nose dialogue at the camp.
We go from the racist (Michael Rooker trying at least) to the fat wife beater. Yay.
Anyone else having trouble staying invested in this show?

E.D.

I watched like 12 min of it last night but had to leave so I didn't catch it all.  I'll probably watch it on on demand but I could really care less at this point.  It just kind of has suck written all over it to me.

The hate seems pretty justified to me, although I personally am loving the shit out of it so far. Episode one was pretty rocking, episode two was a step in the wrong direction. Kind of felt like Rick Grimes was dropped into a pop-up book of cliches. That kinda pissed me off. But episode three was a huge improvement, started delving more deeply into the other survivors. I like the subplot of the wife and her abusive husband, hopefully there'll be more stuff like that.

I'm not pretending that it's brilliant stuff, but it's better than shit like Gossip Girl, or Grey's Anatomy. You've gotta give it that.

Quoted from Matt Chisholm I'm not pretending that it's brilliant stuff, but it's better than shit like Gossip Girl, or Grey's Anatomy. You've gotta give it that.

Raise the bar, will ya?  The reason why shit shows like this are on is because people compare it to other shit shows.


Phil

Well, sure. There will always be shit shows on television as long as there are idiots to watch them.

I'm just saying you could do a lot worse than this.

I'll  finish watching the season, as there's only three more episodes to go.  But...this thing just hasn't gotten any better.  The story line really stagnated these last two episodes.  Last night was more trailer trash melodrama than zombie flick.  Uh, isn't this thing supposed to get scary at some point?  And that ending...did anyone not see that coming?  Weak.