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The writers of "The Walking Dead" have managed to accomplish two things that I thought were impossible: 1) make a show about a zombie apocalypse boring as hell, and 2) make me root for the zombies. Virtually every character in the show is dumb as a post with the exception of maybe 2. They fight like kindergarteners over everything, even when it doesn't make sense to fight. The Dale character was like the Alan Alda of the zombie apocalypse; every single thing these people do to ensure their survival is unacceptable to Dale because it means "we become just like them!" I actually cheered when Dale was killed, then I slapped myself in the face for being dumb enough to still be watching this horrible show, but I suppose there is a deeply recessed part of my brain that clings to the belief that zombie shows simply can't be boring, even more tightly than I cling to my Bible and my guns, and thus, I tune in (well, I download, eheheheh) every week, fully awash in my delusion.

My only regret about the last episode is that Dale, after having subjected the innocent viewer to nearly 40 minutes of sniveling and every cliche except "no blood for oil", wasn't bludgeoned to death by his groupmates in a slow painful manner befitting such a whining, bedwetting, walking wall of fail. I think that a redemption, of sorts, for all of the other nearly intolerable mental midgets which comprise our hapless survivors, could have been achieved by a mass epiphany wherein they vote Dale off the island by means of a tsunami of Louisville Sluggers to his brain pan, thereby eliminating both the threat of gene pool contamination and reanimation in one fell swoop. However, such a scene would have required a screenwriter or two whose experience with the struggle to survive was more than just his weekly intravenous shot of AZT.

Also, it would be rather wonderful if the casting directors of this epic, set in Georgia, could find at least one or two individuals who can actually approximate a southern accent. Listening to the main characters puke out their Japanese-Saturday-morning-cartoon version of a Georgia drawl is like listening to two rabid cats fighting while scratching their claws on a chalkboard with Cher singing "Do You Believe in Love?" in the background.

I was hoping that Carl (the kid) would slip and fall. And the pistol he had stolen and shoved in his pants would go off and cripple him. And then the zombie would finish him off.

Oh well.

Dale served his purpose well.

Oh - and the guy they captured should have been hanged for attempted murder.

it would be rather wonderful if the casting directors of this epic

I read an interesting interview with one of the writers.

This season, they had originally planned to do an entire show as a "backstory" on.... the zombie that Dale found in the tank. Actually, it would be the soldier who turned into a zombie. How he got through the apocalypse, how we wound up bitten and in the tank, and so on.

Would be a total one-off, and not contribute much to the plot line, but *I* thought it sounded cool and would have fleshed out the overall world a bunch. Apparently the suits at the network scrapped the idea.

No matter, I've lost interest in the show. Like a few previous posters have said, I've no idea how writers can make a Zombie Apocalypse so.......boring.

Buhahahahahahah [drawing breath] ...aaaaaahahahahahah!

As it happens I don’t agree with you in most cases - leaving room for satisfaction when idiot characterss buy the farm - but you have a gift for description. That was a most marvelous, well-written rant, sir or madam. Thank you for the read!

While I can’t comment on the most recent few episodes, I’m fine with realistic depictions of group dynamics. People are frikkin NUTS.