I believe that you mean the Superdome, not the Astrodome. People who evacuated New Orleans went to the Astrodome (in Houston), but there were not reports of chaos there.

I think that around two weeks have passed. There was a mention of nine days in the video voiceover at the start of the fourth episode. I think that the events prior to that took place over the course of a few days. My estimate is that Episodes 4 and 5 take place over a period of two or three days.

One potential tactic that I've sort of wondered about for World War Z (or FTWD) is using tracked vehicles - tanks, armored personnel carriers - to run over zombies to crush their heads. I guess maybe the counter would be that they could be so numerous that you'd run out of fuel or risk a mechanical breakdown before…

I thought that it was also premised on a truly overwhelming number of zombies - in the millions, IIRC. Such a huge number that panic, fatigue, and simply running out of ammo would be a problem long before they could all be killed. Brooks also did a good job of making the point how the "Chain Swarm" effect could…

It showed an aerial attack that fit the special effects budget of TWD.

That's a very different comparison to the situation presented on FTWD. The number of people directly impacted by 9/11 was low. For most Americans, it was a tragic but distant event. They were back at work soon - if not the next day, no more than a few days later - and day-to-day life went on.

Moyers last night said something like "Buck up, soldier. I've been in battles where the other guys shoot back." So that's explicitly ruled out by the show.

In the situation that you describe, people would be volunteering by the millions to fight the invaders.

Fair enough, and perhaps I dwelled too much on that specific point in my response. The bigger problem is that they've done such a poor job of world-building and plotting that just saying "these are green soldiers" doesn't help to explain much.

I thought that this was episode was a bit better than last week, but I largely agree with you. I can't figure out how the reviewer has given B+'s to these last two episodes.

I thought that this was episode was a bit better than last week, but I largely agree with you. I can't figure out how the reviewer has given B+'s to these last two episodes.

On the former, I agree with you. I chalk it up to bad writing.

I think that explanation fails on a couple levels.

I agree with you. This point has been very poorly explained on FTWD. How and why were most people evacuated? If there are so few walkers that taking out 83 on a patrol is a great accomplishment, why is the military evacuating the LA basin?

That's a BS cop out by the writers, because there ought to have been a lot of news reports of what's happening. Several commenters here remarked upon that point last week, after being disappointed that so much of the initial zombie outbreak happened offscreen between episodes 3 and 4.

Good points, except for the stabbing holes in heads part. The Amish are committed pacifists, so it would take a lot for them to become convinced that they need to kill zombies. I think that they'd eventually get there for reasons of self-defense, but it wouldn't at all be their first instinct.

They'd been shot in the head.

A collapse from this scenario seems unlikely because slow-moving zombies are so easy to kill once the "rules" are known.

I don't see typical slow-moving zombies as that tough to contain. Once the rules of transmission and killing them via head trauma are understood, they aren't that tough to kill. Zombie stories usually rely on stupid or under-resourced characters to get past that point. The zombies don't have intrinsic advantages.

Well said. After this last episode, I am doubting that the writers of this show have actually thought through a plausible explanation for how the zombie virus leads to the collapse of society. It also appears that this show is being shot on the cheap, and that the writers lack the talent to come up with necessary…