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I hope the next season is a little less about the group dynamics and drama and more about them surviving and being intelligent. The Carl and Lori characters seem to have no more purpose than to give Rick a hard time. Lori acting surprised when Carl was missing is not believable. He only goes missing every episode.

It's a zombie apocalypse and we are watching a show about parenting skills? How about they argue about how to secure the food and water sources and keep themselves safe. They sit around for an entire season on a farm that is completely unprotected from herds of zombies they know exist. They have no contingency plan for a catastrophic event like the finale, a place to meet or a secondary dwelling.

The whole point of the show is that its not just a zombie movie, but a story about how people cope with the zombie apocalypse beyond just survival (including the group dynamics\drama you dont want). They stayed on the farm because they believed it to be safe, and if a massive herd from atlanta hadnt been brought by that helicopter, it mightve stayed safe... they still managed to take out a pretty large amount of walkers, probably wouldve taken out most other groups of walkers that we've seen so far.
 

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For the love of god, how can you people waste more than 15 seconds of your life watching this show? How can it interest anyone in the slightest?

Says the guy posting in a thread about a show he apparantly doesn't like.:skeptical:
 

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I hope the next season is a little less about the group dynamics and drama and more about them surviving and being intelligent. The Carl and Lori characters seem to have no more purpose than to give Rick a hard time. Lori acting surprised when Carl was missing is not believable. He only goes missing every episode.

It's a zombie apocalypse and we are watching a show about parenting skills? How about they argue about how to secure the food and water sources and keep themselves safe. They sit around for an entire season on a farm that is completely unprotected from herds of zombies they know exist. They have no contingency plan for a catastrophic event like the finale, a place to meet or a secondary dwelling.

Great show, but there is room for improvement IMO. Have not read the comic but will over the summer.

I actually disagree with this in every way possible. Oddly enough the final episode (in my opinion) wasn't as good as the three previous. I started watching the show from the first episode for one reason, zombies destroying everything. I am hooked on the show for the human element. Yes, thousands of zombie hoards is pretty cool but not in every episode. Too much of that would just be white noise and the show would get old fast.
 

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I'm not so sure Lori's freak out had so much to do with Shane, as it did with Carl killing Shane. I watched the re-run episode last night and when Rick was telling her that he killed Shane and why he did it she just kind of stood there and listened, but once he said "Carl killed him" her whole face lit up and her reaction was completely different.

I don't know, maybe I'm looking too far into it.


Yeah, I think this is what set her off, that her own flesh and blood had to kill someone he once idealized as a hero, and the mental trauma that would do to Carl. She was quite an unsympathetic character this episode; I found myself hoping she would turn into a zombie appetizer once she started freaking out looking for Carl and just making things worse for everyone.

So that was the infamous prison in the background during the very last scene?
 

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Do you guys constantly think of ways to kill large numbers of walkers now like I do?

Ya, I keep thinking how stupid these people must be to not defend themselves better against large herds of slow moving, mindless walkers.

A little barb wire would go a long way.
 

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I would have either reinforced the fence around the farm or dug a trench around the house. or both. These zombies are slow and stupid, they aren't like the ones on "I am Legend".
 

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My idea would be a huge fire pit. Set up some sort of fencing as a funnel with blood trail and bait leading up to the edge of a huge fire pit. They would simply fall in in and be incinerated. You would have to make it one heck of a big, hot fire though.
 

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Ya, I keep thinking how stupid these people must be to not defend themselves better against large herds of slow moving, mindless walkers.

A little barb wire would go a long way.

One or two arent so bad, but a ton of lumbering dead weight will take you out quickly. Barbed wire would only hold for so long until the sheer mass of bodies would topple it. I would think concrete walls are the only luck you would have and they would have to be thick.
 

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And why none of them have thought to get a sword somewhere is beyond me.

Believe it or not, you have to be good with a sword in order to use it effectively. Plus they arent just laying around.
 

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Believe it or not, you have to be good with a sword in order to use it effectively. Plus they arent just laying around.


Nonsense. I've never used a sword, but am sure that I would be near ninja level from all the action movies I've watched.


Seriously though, do you have to be very skilled to chop off a rotten head?
 

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I actually disagree with this in every way possible. Oddly enough the final episode (in my opinion) wasn't as good as the three previous. I started watching the show from the first episode for one reason, zombies destroying everything. I am hooked on the show for the human element. Yes, thousands of zombie hoards is pretty cool but not in every episode. Too much of that would just be white noise and the show would get old fast.

I'm not saying it should be all action, but the action should include them doing something proactive not just sitting around arguing and creating drama. How about learning to defend themselves without guns?
 

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Barb wire would be pretty worthless against those who feel no pain....

I realize they feel no pain, but the point is on small farm, they are somewhat limited in what materials they have. Barb wire is probably pretty available, and would certainly at least slow them down significantly. Even if you take pain completely out of the equation, you can't just walk through barb wire.

They could eventually push through, but that would have given you a lot of time, not to mention a bottleneck to kill many of them.

Barriers could be a much bigger ally than even firearms against walkers.