Yup. It took away everything from the scene for me. It's more abject cluelessness on the part of the showrunner and the organization.

Ooh! I know!!

Very creative. I can buy those explanations.

Trust the writers of The Walking Dead to wait a season and a half before giving Michonne any kind of backstory.

Clear.

I wonder if that's because of Kirkman's involvement with the show. If he's picking writers, given the dialogue in the comics it's no wonder it's weak in the show, too.

Has no one who survived the ZA figured out how solar panels work? They have to be the second or third thing a smart kid will figure out once the power goes down.

Still and all, they actually show us the can contains 112 ounces. I think it really is literally impossible for a 14/15 year old to eat even half that. I don't think an NFL lineman could eat 7 pounds.

I have to quit posting and get back to working, but you're probably right. I'd think, though, that a small scale show could be done cheaply and well. After all, zombies tend to be the go to horror for directors on a shoestring budget. When AMC was nickling and diming TWD in s2, wasn't the per show budget not counting…

Not to mention walkers have forgotten how to try doorknobs (s01e01), and apparently only genius walkers can smash glass with large rocks, as in s01e02.

Good call. Smart crowd here. Gotta say, though, having recently rewatched Season 2, there's a lot more action and incident than people generally credit it for. Smaller scale stories, sure, but it's not like we spend episode after episode of characters plodding through the woods. When they did it was in your…

Hmm. I just see it as one more TWD writers' room blunder:

Have at it, friend. I'm enjoying the conversation.

But, as GP notes, there were only two of them, and they were unaware of him. It's hard to imagine taking out one from behind at absolutely minimal risk was the wrong idea.

I was sure we were in for some Chekhov's gun action, where that one bullet made a huge difference, but it didn't really seem to.

Between the broadcast briefly heard on the car radio, the rumors that it will play a role in the second half of the series, and that the comics SPOILER SPOILER got a lot of mileage out of Rick et all arriving at a walled community, is there any reason to think the show won't go in that direction the latter half of…

Given the varied possibilities of the basic idea, why hasn't another network or production company put out a zombie series? There's more than one vampire show, for example.

A lot of sharp writing on the show. Kolchak's dialogue particularly sparked. The show's writers pretty much mastered the art of the unnecessary adjective: "What was a *gold-button* captain doing on the front line of…"

You mean the outer fence they went the whole winter without strengthening in any way whatever? Because, hey, those rutabagas won't plant themselves!

Yeah, with a mother who well into the zombie freaking apocalypse was tut-tutting over the kid learning to use a gun. Even more crippling is that the kid has writers who for the sake of character development was us to believe a former sheriff is actually wanting to wander beyond the prison fences without a gun.