While I'm happy they're following the core story of the comic, I do have to say I'm confused why it's taking them a whole episode to cover about 4 pages from the source.
This show is impossible to watch live. I have to dvr or download it.... Need the ability to fast forward. This show is losing its luster.
I watched the sneak peak for next week's episode. Spoiler The Asian Kid really needed to tell the old geezer to mind his own beeswax.
That old geezer needed to be zombie bait. Why would you use a young quick footed asset (Insert Daryl Morey pic here) is beyond me.
next week's preview, vinsensual. it briefly showed Merle talking to a character we can't see from higher ground... check out the sneak peek on the previous page...
One more thing about Lori Spoiler The show would be a whole lot more tolerable if her character weren't in.
Alright, here we go... 1. Well scene was gratuitous and nonsensical. A dug well is not the same as an artesian well. Even though that is where they suppsedly get the water for the cattle, there wasn't enough water in the dug well to provide for the number of cows they have out there in the field. The pump was stupid. If you have an artesian well, it would always flow or could be turned off like a spigot. It wouldn't need pumping. An artesian well at a couple of gallons per minute could handle the needs of the cows. Regardless, the pump could not be connected to the dug well. You could have shot the zombie and boarded up the well again. No need for the stupid plan they came up with. You could also try dropping a rope over the zombie's head. Perhaps the stupidest thing they did was waste a canned ham. Also, you're hanging out in this idyllic pasture land with cows grazing and all I've seen is the standard barbed-wire fence. Since walkers are out eating chipmunks and such, don't you think a live cow would draw some attention? Maybe they have pixie dust they sprinkled around the farm, but that does not explain the well zombie unless it was a member of Herschel's family in which case, why would the farm girl so casually direct them to the well. And... how did the well zombie get there? Zombies need blood, not water. What are the odds that a zombie is just walking across the landscape and steps up onto a boarded over well and falls in? Unlikely in my book. Maybe that's something that should cause a little alarm, yet everyone has a good laugh. Finally, the rope pulling was totally unrealistic. They are yanking on a rope that looks like it has no weight on it. Then, when the kid is in trouble, they start pulling on the rope and move back about five feet, but the kid is still at the same depth in the well. 2. The sex scene. Again, you've got a lot of zombies nearby. You just tie your horses up outside and forget about them while you satisfy your carnal urges? Unlikely. I don't know about women's physical/mental ability in similar situations, but I would have a hard time satisfying Jennifer Connelly in a looted drug store with zombies running around. Plus, doing it in the feminine hygeine aisle would add to the chances little johnny would be in his shell. Double plus, you've got the horses staring at you through the window. I guess that kid is more man than I. 3. Newly bald guy was told he shouldn't be walking around on bum ankle so he decides to just drive the interstate. Then we see him trudging through a field. WTF? 4. IIRC, the kid had a fairly common blood type. Unlikely that Dad is the only one among the group with that blood type. If so, why did all the blood need to come from him? To sum up, the usual ridiculous situations, but the well scene was so over-the-top it made the "carve up the zombie to see if the girl is inside" scene look like Shakespeare.
When the water zombie didn't go for the ham, Andrea says "we need live bait" and turned to face Glen with a huge **** eating grin. Really, this is the plan? I would've punched her in the face. And is Glen suppose to be 15 years old? Maggie says let's have sex. And Glen asked "why?". Who cares dumb ass.
I can buy that the farm is far enough in the rural countryside to not be bothered by big hordes of zombies, and that they do have protections in place, just that you haven't seen them. Course it's a detail that would be nice to know. As for the well, if I had to go down that with a zombie in the bottom, I wouldn't trust my fate to what looked like a hundred year-old rope, with rusty pipes being used as pulleys. Not to mention there is no way I'd drink from that well in the first place after discovering a zombie in it. Contamination has been completely thrown out the window in Season 2. When Andrea has to kill the zombie with the screwdriver in the RV, her face is splattered with blood and a zombie corpse is lying on the floor. And yet magically she and the RV are clean and fine in the next scene. I would have imagined after a close encounter like that, she would be watched carefully for signs of infection and the RV abandoned. Well...she didn't seem all that satisfied after the fact. But my problem isn't with that, but rather the ride to the pharmacy and the awful banter. It would have been better had nothing been said at all, aside from asking her if that's the first zombie's she's seen, which judging by her reaction wasn't.
No full time staff of writers, got rid of the executive producer, slashed the budget, and every bit of it shows. The point about the rope not being taunt is spot on, and it's the little details like that which are really hurting season two.
Oh. MyGlob. They totally switched Darryl from TenPoint Pro Elite Premium Hunter Bolts with Easton Tracer Nocks to....get this....Excalibur Crossbow Bolts! Show is going into the ****ter, fast.
