@inferiorego said:
@the_stegman said:
@foreverman said:
Meh. I guess most people just want zombies, because this show has been grating on my nerves ever more progressively. Its not the pacing that's bothering me at all, but some of the writing.
Too much of the tension relies on the horror cliche of people acting weirdly foolish and illogical. I'm interested to see what's going to happen with the turn that the end of the episode takes though.
But I hope they manage to advance the action in ways other than having people wander off inexplicably, leave doors open, stand there trying to talk to approaching zombies, keep important info to themselves because they're "shaken" / for no apparent reason etc...
Seriously, why the hell would you leave your door open when you KNOW things human or not, are out to get you?? Then you get surprised when someone is in your house?? Come on. I try to suspend disbelief, but the people in this show act ridiculously stupid. The daughter for instance, why would you split up from the group and go back in the house?? Then investigate a strange noise?? It's like every horror trope smashed together.
I leave my door open when I stop by my neighbor's all the time. They also don't know these things are out to get them. All they know is that there's a few cases of people with this sickness. The reason you think they're acting stupid is, again, because you have a lot more knowledge about the situation.
As for Alicia, it's pretty obvious she doesn't listen well, like all teenagers, and she has even less information than Travis, Nick, and Madison, since she, at that point, still hadn't seen a walker. That guy was the first one she saw and that happened after she ran back to the house to grab the shells. She's not bright, but in no way is this character induced stupidity.
It's serious enough that both Madison and her son have brutally killed "people" in the last 24 hours. Serious enough that they're blowing town as soon as Travis gets back. They saw their neighbour attack his wife, they saw him heading toward their house, they know he's lurking somewhere and need a weapon to defend themselves. But when they leave to get it, they just leave the door wide open? Nope, that makes sense on no real level.
Neither does the general extent of Travis and Madison being in some kind of weird shaken denial, where they don't even want to give effectively cryptic warnings about a situation that's clearly gone well past hitting the fan. And Alicia almost walked off straight into her death 3 times in 2 episodes directly because of it.
I'm not trying to just bash the show, I'm actually enjoying it. But there's no doubt that much of the action thus far has been pushed ahead by people acting weirdly foolish.
I mean when Travis was trying to get his son, who was refusing his calls in ep 2, I'm screaming "text him!!" at my tv. When Madison is in her car and sees her neighbour some home at the end of this episode, I'm screaming "honk your horn!" at my TV.
Too many weird little facepalm moments like that. Not the tight writing I was hoping to get from this show.
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