The reviewer believes this was ''audacious storytelling'' but at the same time the audience was being trolled by the opening scene. If the opening scene was trolling and has no real connection to the actual show then that is terrible storytelling. Lindelof is trolling people and he is not telling a story. That's…

Just to illustrate the point: i saw the opening very different. I saw it as saying that incomprehensible sudden departures have always happened throughout the existence of humans and the only things you we can do is endure and continue to exist (the mother giving birth, looking for food, protecting her young etc).…

Dude, this is Lindelof. He was trolling you. There will be absolutely no concrete connection between that scene and the present of the show. However, in order for us to make sense of it, we as an audience, have to see it as a metaphor or allegory for something. This is how our minds works and what Lindelof takes…

Dude, this is Lindelof. He was trolling you. There will be absolutely no concrete connection between that scene and the present of the show. However, in order for us to make sense of it, we as an audience, have to see it as a metaphor or allegory for something. This is how our minds works and what Lindelof takes…

This is the great trick at the heart of Lindelof's ''style''. So many people had invested so many hours not just watching LOST but talking about it, theorizing about it etc that when the bullshit became apparent and could no longer be defended, they had too much pyschologically to lose in admitting it. So they just…

I think you are the only other person who has got FTWD. we weren't supposed to see the protagonists as 'heroes' not even 'anti-heroes'. But the writers were unfortunately clumsy. They mistook vagueness for nuance, confusion for ambiguity so instead of a great subtle undermining of the zombie apocalypse we got a clumsy…

Most stuff like that sailed over the head of alot of people.Then they come to their favourite review site to bitch about how nonsensical everything is.When what really happened is they just couldn't follow the show.

You have a great imagination if you can understand every individual reaction to 9/11 among the millions of people who experienced it. The average teenager not so much. But anyway 9/11 was a completely comprehensible tragedy made emotionally legible by 24/7 media loops creating the narratives, showing the pictures etc.

That he broke so soon was a pity and not really in fitting with the slow moving way the protagonists have experienced the onset of zombies. I mean Travis still thinks they're just sick people in need of meds. At this rate by episode 2 next season he should be ripping out people's throats with his bare hands. 'good…

no they like Strand because he is a larger than life comic book character (I mean who packs suits in the middle of a zombie apocalypse?) and the writers have chosen to give him vague cryptic declarations that make him look like he knows what he is doing. You can't make a character a stereotype if you don't reveal…

I'd like to think it was a writers in-joke taking the piss out of all the nit pickers but I presume the show was well in the can long before the season aired.

Just on Alicia/Chris its obvious they are supposed to be teenagers. Chris 15/16, Alicia 16/17. They are supposed to be treated like they are immature, self absorbed and obnoxious by overprotective parents.Obviously the Alicia character is miscast. It's a pity cos she is a good actress.

I like how absolutely everyone noticed the gate being left open but no one picked up on Strand doing the *intelligent thing that usually evades people in the zombie apocalypse* of actually closing the door behind him… only for it to lock and later leave him *ahem* stranded.

then a flashback to the guy out walking his dog coming home.

to be fair I didn't get the impression they were threatening to rape her. that seems to be a verdict some here have. My impression of the scene is they were just douche bros creepily hitting on her as if that's all men would think about in the middle of escaping an attack by an army of undead.

The focus on the gate is really bizarre! Its just irrelevant ephemera, people! come on!

Don't get me wrong I'm saying she is a good actress. dim witted is not necessarily a criticism of the character.

If the soldiers were really intent on raping her it would have went like this: punch Chris out, hold Alicia down, take turns raping her. Anything else would have been terribly contrived. Alicia didn't get much to do this season except be kinda obnoxious and self absorbed, so to have her go from 0 to badass at the…

I don't think it will turn into 'zombie apocalypse survivalism' a la the original just yet. Everyone seems to think they have already skipped the apocalypse and now we are at the same stage as when Rick woke up.OK LA was deserted and the army was pulling out, but it was going to Edwards Airbase and the show was…

the bitten soldier tried to get into the helicopter and you hear him being told no you're infected. he then runs into the blades. It definitely was suicide.