What? Season 2 was AWFUL. The biggest thing in season two was figuring out who's baby was in Ricks wife's belly. It was basically daytime soap opera with some horror thrown in. 

The Walking Dead was great in season one because it was about a few people surviving the end of times. Once they started to slow down to the point where people were fucking, getting pregnant, falling in love and aruging over stupid family issues, it ceased to about surviving and started to resemble something my mother would enjoy. 

I am under the belief now that AMC did this intentionally to raise female viewer ship because when you look around, more women watch it now than men. And really, that should tell you something about the show because the average woman doesn't like zombie movies at all.

Isn't that literally what the show (and the comics) is about though? A show that demonstrated that we are our own worst enemy?

I would be bored out of my mind if every episode had mindless zombie killings, it wouldn't be deep at all. Character development can be slow but it's necessary if you're ever gonna give a damn about the main cast, not just who can slice zombie heads best.

OT: The premiere episode was cool but a bit slow for my taste. However, JSS was a fucking mind bomb. It was just fantastic, frantic, lunatic human violence which honestly feels more terrifying than the zombies themselves.

People say the first couple of seasons were so slow but that is what put asses in seats. You want a faced paced zombie thriller (which, sadly is what TWD seems to be, now), then go watch Z Nation of something.

TWD, as stated above, was about a small group trying to survive basically the apocalypse. The zombies were eventually shown in the comics to not even be the real threat. It's people with no rules to follow that are far more dangerous.

When everybody was looking for Sophia, people cared. When they finally found her, people cried. When Dale was trying to keep everyone moral, people cared. Now, is just guns and gore. Good fun, sure. It will get old. Remember when AMC advertised "Story comes first"? What is the story, now?

Go back to the comics.
Glenn and Maggie.
Rick and Carl Poppa (cool people know)
Michonne and Morgan.

And then, when Negan finally appears, there will be a huge payoff. Right now, we have had Woodbury, The Hunters, that hospital, and now, The Wolves. It's too much! And nobody gets time to develop as a character.

I guess I'm becoming one of those " the book is better " people--but when the series consistently misses these amazing moments set up in the comics, it gets frustrating. In this case, the series shines brightest when it is true to the source material.

Only cause the ratings are based on nielson boxes being in supposedly a distirbuted sample. I am yet to meet a stargate (scifi in general) fan who has one lol.

There is a reason why Sponge Bob dominates those charts too, familes get the boxes lol.

But that would just be even more repetative. Fast pace of walk, kill zomibes, someone dies they find new travellers, walk, kill zomibes, someone dies they find new travellers, walk, kill zomibes, someone dies they find new travellers, walk, kill zomibes, someone dies they find new travellers.

Don't forget these are regular people not trained machines that don't get tired. 

You telling me that if you were under daily threat from an enemy you would not wish to catch a break for a few months and feel like a human before the disaster happened? You also forget these people lived in a normal world that went to shit.

Perhaps Walking Dead 2.0 will be set 30 years innto the future were all these babies they keep popping out are now adults who only know how to survive and kill and never knew the good life humanity had before it all went down. 

If you or I actually had to face what they faced in season 1, neither of us would FIND the time to fall in love, fuck people or worry about much of anything other than eat, sleep and live. That's the reality of it. You wouldn't hardly be ABLE to sleep, because you'd always have the fear of this horde or zombies attacking you. You wouldn't find places where you could feel secure enough to live a "normal" life. And even if you did, the damage done to your psychological makeup would be such that you'd probably never be able set aside your trauma enough to think about such trivial things.

Nothing is more indicitive of this than Glenn and Maggie. In season two, when they fuck, they do so out in the open, inside of a goddamn store with the threat of death ALL AROUND THEM. Then, to make it even more ridiculous, they get all emo and fall in love. There's no way, if this shit happened in the real world, that you would be thinking about anything other than staying alive. Maybe if you were a parent and had to make sure your kid/s were safe. But not in Glenn's case. Not a chance.

When George Romero was asked to direct the show, his responce was something like "It's just a soap opera with the occasional zombie". That's exactly why I stopped watching. 

illrelavent to my comment. You might as well go blame scifi fans for not pursuing nelson boxes more. I'm talking about numbers. Not bitching Stargate Universe got cancelled.

I dont want mindless zombie killing, but character development is stronger through actions rather than talk. This episode yesterday was well paced, literally the worst part of it was when that black guy asked that other guy about his parents and other stuff. A really good episode need not kill anyone but they need to dance with danger a little bit. Epsidoes like today, and season 5 part 2 opener are the extreme guns ablazin episodes, which im fine with. But the 'standard' episodes where they will probably kill off one alexandrian or one unknown needs to be stronger. They also need to stop being so cliched "This guy is going to get us killed" guy gets killed himself and realises Rick wasnt such a bad guy. It's becoming too formulaic that I can somewhat predict who is gonna die.

But there was a good deal of action and pacing to it. Rick was going through an epiphany; his wife was being a biatch, shane was on one side tryna make him a survivor, hershel and the other oldy were tryna make him more humane. It was slower than other seasons but paced well imo.

Last night's episode.

I'm excited again! I was considering leaving the show alone but I want to see how they portray Negan. Glad I stuck around. It was great!!