This is a show that had the beheaded Hershel try to speak. I'm amazed they were so discreet this time around.

Yeah. To bad it breathed cliches and cliches.

"I thought he could hear the zombie kid in another room before he went into the bedroom?"

"Noah outruns him with a damn limp so they can get to the house."

"This is an episode about a good man deciding to die…"

Mystifying.

Isn't that Rick's thing in the comic—to bumble around and get everyone killed?

It does have that 'racist apologist' flavor Zack might not have been looking for.

Yeah, he only ran that character longer than any other in the history of television. Loser!

It's a too common way you know the writers are writing from outside rather than from within the story. You can't miss obvious details like that if you're immersed in that world.

Excellent idea. Not nearly enough was done with the idea of not knowing what it was you saw, and rather too much time was spent on the bloated, "worried family" thread of the plot. Also, no other character was brought into the world of uncertain experience, which should be easy to do in an unearthly city like Los…

You're mistaken. They specifically were taking him to the basement.

It was strange to see the principal listening in to individual classrooms. Perhaps that was why.

Good eye. That's a good reason for the restraints.

Almost surely it was bad writing. When in doubt, in the world of the WD, go with bad writing.

Too late. What the hell did you call this pilot, if not "bloated"?

And the inevitable "suspense" over whether he turns while passed out / dying during withdrawal?

Nor is it possible he would not have phoned his live-in. As soon as we saw him in the church, I wanted to know how that phone call (or message) went.

And these did nothing of the kind. They were boring stories, BORINGLY told. Some drug addicts are dullards, some are William Burroughs. Some divorced fathers are dullards, some are bank robbers and poets. FTWD chose the dullest of the dull through which to tell its story.

"It's the first hour and a half of a show that…"