No--I ditched cable. I've been downloading TWD since then, and yeah, I could do that later, but if it comes on this week, I wanna watch it this week!
Whoo! I finished season 1 and the latest batch (season 2?)
You mean the kids are boring for the show or because they slow down the survival chances for the group?
They're boring for the show, and they limit what the group can do. There's far too much angst about the children's future and wellbeing. In fact, season 2 was two angsty and soap-opera-y all the way around, due to the budget cuts. They suddenly couldn't face the scary new world out there. They had to sit on a farm and whine about kids getting shot and infidelity and possible pregnancy. All of this is stupid, non-zombie-Apocalypse stuff.
LOL.
I thought she was suppose to be a cancer survivor? That's how I read it. Or perhaps her abusive husband messed up her hair so she shaved it. Or he shaved it off himself.
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Possibly, but they never mentioned it, I don't think. So he ended up being the redneck from hell, and she looked like a professor of Women's Studies.
Also, her character became useless and boring in Season 2. They have a lot to fix, IMO.
Does anyone else dislike Lori as much as I do? 'Cause I really dislike her. I don't like how the show is starting to center around Rick + Lori so much + kinda Shane of course, though I'm pretty sure he'll be out of the picture in some dramatic way soon.
Look around the internet--I'm fairly sure EVERYONE hates Lori with a burning passion. She is literally the worst thing ever.
I thought it was interesting how T-Dog's role is so minimal, like they were keeping around the last black character for another season just to not fall into the 'horror movie' stereotype. Then I remembered he needs to be around for when Merle shows back up.
They've totally wasted T-Dog, so much that it's almost embarrassing. I mean, none of these folks are stellar actors (with a couple of exceptions), but a T-Dog storyline would probably beat a Lori/Shane storyline any day of the week. And ugh, Karl.
To me Dale is the true moral center in the group, Rick/Lori etc. are kinda mired in their own relationship dysfunction. That seem to be a common trope in survival horror/action stories that 1 family's internal drama ends up screwing it up for everyone else. It kinda reminded me of BSG and how the characters I thought were the most admirable ended up getting killed off and the self-absorbed characters got to live.
Yeah, Dale is the moral center, but he's also kind of a self-righteous, borderline-creepy blowhard at times. I liked him a lot more in Season 1. But almost all of these characters seem generic to me. I don't feel like they're real people. Daryl and Merle are the most realistic characters, and I was sure at first they were going to be redneck stereotypes. But the actors elevated them to feel like believable humans. Rick was good in Season 1, because we were living the crisis through him--and that was very interesting and suspenseful. Once he found his family, he became too Dudley Do-Right, and too caught up in family stuff.
It was a huge mistake for them to have brought in a new batch of writers between seasons 1 and 2, and it was a huge mistake for AMC to cut this show's budget in favor of Mad Men's. I hope the second part of the season brings about some changes, or I'll probably just let it drift off my radar.
Yeah, BSG got weird the last season it was on. I liked how they tied some of the stuff together, but I didn't care about a lot of the characters anymore by then. Roslin had become fairly unbearable in the same way Dale is. I wanted to punch Starbuck in the face every time I saw her. I guess it's hard to keep a show from going off the rails the longer it's on. I'm glad Doctor Who hasn't fallen into the same traps so far. My dramatic eggs are pretty much firmly in that basket now. I like American Horror Story, too, and I'm kind of liking the theatre company idea of changing the story but having the same actors, but it's only been one season, and who knows if it can keep the momentum.