The Walking Dead

I'm betting the girl is with the hunter's family and the boy will be the McGuffin for the first half of the series, needing to find a proper doctor or drugs for him.

As someone suggested it's possible that some chemical agent was used and that's what killed everyone on that highway. May have even been an accidental spill caused by a zombie (truck carrying chemicals jackknifes trying to avoid what the driver thought was a person in the road). Or it could have blown in from a train derailment, chemical plant, etc.

Re: the motorcycle.

They were on the move. They weren't expecting to stop for any real length of time, or at the very least not to break down on the interstate. They would far outpace any deaders before they could zero in on the bike's noise. Once they were stopped, the prospect of making extraneous noise when they know there was at least one herd around became a bit more dangerous.

Silly? Yes. It was naive to think there wouldn't be traffic jams on there, especially when they passed a massive one on the way out of Atlanta.

What about the fact that the herd suddenly couldn't smell food 2 feet away when we had already had an entire episode about their sense of smell? That's the part that bothered me the most.

My only vague guess as to why the zombies didn't smell the live people was that there were plenty of dead people in the cars around them. The stench from that might have been enough to cover the live smells. For instance when Daryl and T-Dog hid underneath the dead bodies that seemed to be enough to cover them.

Maybe if they had made more of a point about how bad all the dead bodies smelled before the herd got there the whole thing would've made more sense. *shrugs*

Finally just got around to watching it. I liked it but hated it at the same time. Hated in that it annoyed the crap out of me with the use of tropes. Now normally I don't mind tropes because despite people jumping on them they are in most cases used sparingly and the only places you see them in large volume are parodies.

Except in this one we had the

Vehicle breaking down at the worst possible location (blocked road)

Herd of zombies happening to come across them just as they were broken down. Thousands of miles of highway and these zombies just happen to be wandering along theirs right as they break down.

Child making a noise that attracts the enemy.

Somebody dropping something that attracts the attention of the home (motorhome) invader just as they are walking out the door.

Somebody injuring themselves severely and rendering themselves pretty much helpless while trying to hide from the bad guys.

Multiple cases of people tripping over nothing as they are running away.

The rustling in the brush turning out to be a cute animal... which lures somebody into danger.

Like I said, normally tropes don't bother me but I found myself talking to the characters saying stuff like "Ok, now fall down and scramble frantically along the ground." "Ignore the bell, it's just the wind ringing it or something like that." "Stay away from the deer or you're gonna die kid." and then watching a version of what I said happen immediately afterwords.

I'll still watch because I liked last season so much but I'm expecting the following to happen this season.

They will see a helicopter and run out into a clearing to wave at it. At which point people in the helicopter will open fire on them.

They will shoot a zombie from a distance only to find out that it was a living person who had been on the run and injured.

They will add an attractive young woman to their group. And she will lure them into a zombie attack for some reason. Most likely to lure the zombies away from the building her sister is trapped in.

Some sweet little kid they find will turn out to be sociopathic and evil and have psychic powers...

Ok, maybe not that last one.

This sounds like a case of trope over-analysis. Every story in existence uses these, and since it's a horror/drama the tropes will tend to clump up along certain axes.

The second season has some issues, but I don't think overusing tropes is the main cause. The writers just need to be more consistent about the rules they set up (can zombies smell or not... are they attracted to loud noise, etc.).

Am I the only one who's been unimpressed with this series? I feel like I'm going crazy with everyone raving about it.

Am I the only one who doesn't like Rick?

I liked it, the little things don't bother me, what does bother me is when I am watching a tv show or movie, my very logical husband that doesn't realize it's hollywood fanatasy has to nitpick the whole time and ruin it for me, and that's why I don't watch my shows around him or if he wants to watch them with me I tell him ok but shush.

Speaking of last night's episode: can we give up on Sophia yet?

Two days in the woods where we know random Walkers are stalking and she hasn't been found. I think she's gone. Which means her mother won't be around much longer either, by way of direct check-out or abandoning the group to search for her daughter.

I hate to say it, but I'm warming up to Shane... putting his life on the line for a chance to save Carl says a lot.

I don't think I've ever seen a crucifix in a Southern Baptist Church. There might be one out there somewhere, but I'm very doubtful.

Well, i love it. each week has me wondering how much everyone can take before they check out. Daryl is my favorite character. In a zombiepocalypse, he's who i would want watching my back.