The mother also screamed, not the brightest idea when surrounded by zombies haha
But I totally agree about the flashbacks, definitely unnecessary and annoying. I knew he was about to cut off her arm though so I was just waiting for Rick to get over it and do it already.
The older son was an idiot but I had just accepted…

Ok, I will say that something being in the comics doesn't justify its inclusion in the tv show, though from my limited knowledge of the comics this inclusion is part of an important character arc.
Regardless that has nothing to do with the execution.

'At a certain point, it’s hard to be upset about all this death; at a certain point, it turns into slapstick. It breaks the world of the show, especially when we’re supposed to worry about Carl getting shot in the eye seconds later.'
Um what? Its a zombie apocalypse… death is expected. Death is the most likely outcome…