I think the similarities to 24 are becoming more pronounced as the series progresses.  And I think the most pronounced similarity, beyond subject matter, is the score.

I think the grossness factor comes from the fact that her daughter was just lost, turned into a zombie, and shot in front of her, and her budding connection with Daryl comes exclusively from that series of events.  If she immediately (and it would be immediate, this show works in fits and starts, eschewing slow-burn…

Carol's gotta be the next one to go, right?  Now that she's no longer the Abused Wife or the Single Mom, she doesn't really fill a role in the group.  If they're keeping Andrea around, which, sadly, they probably will because they're clearly not done telling her story yet, then Carol's got to go.  And honestly, after…

I also saw it coming.  Well, I saw it being the only satisfying way to justify dragging out the arc until this point.  I was 50/50 on whether the show would have the balls to pull it off.

If she had been killed by walkers, wouldn't they have eaten her whole, a la Rick's horse? Someone from Herschel's farm must have intervened shortly after she got bit, right?

Muppets Take Manhattan is the Muppets' Temple of Doom.

The Peggy storyline was more than that, though, with the pressure to repent from Father Gil interacting with her personal guilt for giving up the baby.  The Catholic tradition of repentance and reconcilitation mirrored Peggy's journey toward coming to terms with choosing her career over the child.  At the end of the…

Catholic guilt can be a compelling dramatic device.  See Peggy Olsen circa Season Two of Mad Men for details.  My beef is that Margaret's whole Season One wishy-washy moral handwringing was a drag, and I have no expectation that another trip down that road would be better.

It would be really great if they could avoid a subplot where Margaret thinks Emily's polio is God punishing her for being a crime boss's first lady/boning Slater.  Because if that's where they head with this, I'm out.  As we went through in Season One, Half-Assed Catholic Guilt Margaret is not a fun or interesting…

Baccarin's a babe, for sure, but Claire Danes, whom I've never found exceptionally attractive, is smokin' hot in this role.  It might be–it definitely is–the crazy.

I totally got a Mrs. Iselin vibe from Elizabeth.  Kept waiting for her to ask Brody to play a game of solitaire.

The aforementioned sex ed class took place in a public school in the South.  Believe it or not, modern medicine has begun to reach us here, even in the assbackwards, technology-shunning boondocks of Dixie.

And if they're going to put people like Mount and Timothy Olyphant in the leads, the very least they can do is provide some female eye candy to distract us straight male viewers from our discomfort at how sexy we find Timothy Olyphant to be.  I mean, not me personally, but I'm sure that some other dude thought that…

It's kind of ridiculous that presumably educated people are still unaware of the difference.  We covered that in high school sex ed nearly ten years ago; I thought it was fairly common knowledge.

It's like watching a whole brood of Kim Bauers.

Can we chuck Rick and Shane while we're at it?

Disagree.  Andrea has taken a huge downturn from Season One.  It's a shame that they let Jacqui stay at the CDC instead of her.

On another show, I might give them the benefit of the doubt that it was the characters', and not the writers', error.  But giving the caliber of writing on this show, it was likely a writer error.  Woof.

…AND ExileonDaytonStreet already said pretty much the exact same thing, but it got lost in the thread the first time I read through it.

I don't know if it's the media being pro-life.  It seems to me that the decision to keep the baby (on the writer's part, not the character's) more often than not is motivated by storytelling rather than politics.  For example, on Mad Men, if Joan went through with her abortion, then the storyline is over.  They just…