Dr. Spock's Baby Care, chapter three.

This is a show that had a sheriff shoot a young girl in the face in its opening minutes. I don't think there are any lines it's going to draw wrt violence.

Tyrese doesn't know yet Carol killed his gf.
As for him not being violent, he instigated a fistfight with Rick for not excellent reasons. He's no pacifist.

One problem was that a lot of people couldn't tell what the eff was going on. More bungling w camera work and simple exposition.

re 2), it wouldn't surprise me to learn eventually that they screwed something up during the filming or in post and decided to take their lumps rather than reshoot.

I don't think it has to carry over, by any means, but it could have been a great and memorable move, making each episode that much more densely layered: perhaps Beth and her diary, Maggie thinking aloud about the missing Glen, Glen thinking about Maggie but perhaps in a very different way, and the last group using a…

Yikes. I really wanted to believe otherwise, that a minute or two had been clipped. "Ham-handed" is probably wildly more complimentary than that scene deserved.

In partial defense, did Tyrese say something to the effect that it might be others from the group?

It doubtless would have been better than whatever we'll end up with wrt Judith. I suppose, though, the writers might be planning to use her continued existence to justify the group's overcoming whatever reservations it will have to settling in at Terminus.

There's a simple explanation for the show: it's amateurish.

Of course. Most people are at it like rabbits with a day after watch a parent have their head cut off in front of them.

And this is part of the reason the show never really gets rolling.

In short, it was impossible.

Or turn that fast.

"or death by writer"

No, s/he was talking polar opposite behaviors, not just reasonable changes in mood or attitude.

I wasn't sure what was going on, but since this is the opposite of a show that rewards close scrutiny I've stopped pausing in order to discover a shot is just one more example of sloppy camerawork rather than a moment meant to be seen in passing.

Was the reintroduction of Carol truly as badly written as it looked in the recording I saw, where two walkers are nearing the girls and Judith in the woods, cut to Tyrese fighting walkers, then cut to Carol and the girls joining him?

It's also consistent with having the recurring characters unable to ever figure out they'd be better off in a gated community, island, or small town with a handful of streets blocked off.

Still, too bad it wouldn't have been in character for Glen to have executed her for her part in the death of Hershel and others.