THE WALKING DEAD s09e01, "A New Beginning"
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shareSucked. So many stupid actions. And boring. All good things must come to an end.
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Booooooring. Why didn't they just kill the walkers instead of letting one of their own get bit?
shareA wagon is comically easy to build (and they already have one) but to appropriate another, they go into D.C.--a place that should be crawling with a few million zombies and totally inaccessible--to get it. They were there for other things too, obviously, but the wagon is the one that gets them into trouble.
One of the reasons those wagons were so popular in their day is that they were very lightweight but on TWD, it's like it's made of lead--so heavy, it cracks a floor in the Georgia state capitol building (which is the building they used for that sequence) that has had hundreds of thousands of people walking over it for decades.
Later, the bridge is out and, in taking an alternate route, they declare the horses will never be able to pull the wagon through a stretch of mud. So they unhitch the horses and the people pull the wagon through that mud! A clue for the writers: a team of horses is MUCH better equipped to move a wagon than a couple guys.
A horse is an incredibly valuable thing to have in this sort of world but when a few zombies appear, Rick immediately decides to abandon the wagon and let the zombies eat the horse they're rehitched to it! One random cannon-fodder character goes back to unhitch the horse but is bitten by one of TWD's teleporting zombies. Then, so he can get some medical attention, everyone goes back and, with minimal effort, kills the zombies who had been creeping up. Why not just do that in the first place? It also seems the TWD zombies have evolved to become venomous, because Random Cannon-Fodder Guy is bitten on the arm but dies on the spot within about a minute-and-a-half.
Couldn't have said it better. Although I believe dude died from the horse kicking him in the chest.
shareHalf the time the zombies are a nuisance (Jesus nonchalantly kicking them in the head). Other times they are an unstoppable force. We have seen our heroes (Rick, Michone, Darryl, etc.) dispatch 20 zombies each. Rick waded into an entire horde alone in Alexandria. Yet a few Z's stumble out of the woods and everyone freaks out. And always seem more interested in grabbing and wrestling with our main characters instead of biting.
shareThe Alexandria horde-killing event came to my mind, too, when in the current episode Rick's group of a dozen scavengers freaked out when twenty zombies appeared on the road--in daylight, and coming from one direction....and they freak out and run away! W.T.F.
After that Alexandria scene, this show destroyed any semblance of menace or threat ever being created again for whenever a group of zombies show up.
Another boring premiere full of stupid behaviour and stupid situations.
I understand that the theme of coexistence between the different settlements is a direct and natural consequence of the newfound peace, but I really couldn't care less about apocalyptic politics.
Once I'll see how Rick went out I'll be off for good.