It looks like the guys at TWD are finally throwing in some tactics and strategy into the plans of our intrepid group of survivors. Two-way radios, backup plans, mobile scouts, etc, etc. Nice to see that someone finally gets the idea that you can’t just run around the apocalypse and meet things head-on without plans.
Things that still annoy me about The Walking Dead:
- There are no consequences to horrible personal hygiene
- Wheres all the gasoline coming from?
- No .gov of any kind exists? Anywhere? At all?
- The ‘rogue military’ scenario hasn’t really been fully explored, although the ‘rogue cop’ one was (at the hospital).
- Guns go ‘click’ multiple times when empty
- The way Rick holds his Python makes it clear this guy knows nothing about guns
Still, I’m very much enjoying the zombie genre. I still maintain that the fella with a suppressed 10/22 and a few bricks of ammo would go down in history as humanity’s greatest defender.
C Zero
That is because the actor that plays Rick is a Brit. In that disarmed, sheeple country the only ones who know anything, or even have access to guns, are the military and some police units/counter terror squads. In Britain if you even defend yourself with any kind of weapon you get the book thrown at you along with your assailant. Hard to see how low that country has fallen.
I was glad to see some planning, but was disappointed in the plan itself. You have a working zombie trap, why let them out of it? Sending them down the road 20 miles is not enough safety margin for that many walkers. Find a way to kill them in the trap.
But I did enjoy the episode a lot.
I like the new season, well so far. Rick gave the guy with the gun on the “brain” a split second, before he wound up at the end with a knife to the spine.
Seeing that Zombies are still slow and crunchy, save the ammo, use a sharpened stick.
I still think that the biggest threat will come from other humans either in Alexandria, or elsewhere. Where does Daryl come up with so many bolts for the cross bow? Has anyone seen him cock it after firing?
I’m thinking that the big surprise this year will be the demise of Rick, or Daryl.
My pet peeve remains the failure to use fencing and PPE.
Why isn’t every house surrounded with 8′ chain-link fences and “air lock” gates with simple mechanical locks? How many times do people have to be ambushed before they wise up?
Why aren’t people wearing leather jackets with high collars, motorcycle helmets and welders’ gauntlets? If a bite means — at best — slow certain death, what’s so bad about sweating and maybe a rash instead?
We keep being shown that the walkers are mindless. But at what point do the living show any evidence that they’re capable of learning and adapting to this?