A guidance counselor in an inner city school with a history of violence would have a lot of authority. The fact that she was helping that one kid with the knife tells me the school has a history of violence, maybe even a school shooting, thus the extremely high security measures.

Well said. Here is why I like LA as a setting. It is already filled with desperate people, violent gangs, and urban ruins. Many parts look right now like it is post apocalyptic. But there are also the extremely wealthy, high end stores, movies being filmed, people living the good life. Within a few blocks of where…

Not at all. He coded. What the staff did was exactly protocol for anyone who codes, rush him to the OR. It was explained earlier that Nick was restrained because he was slated for a psych eval. and that he was a self injury risk.

I don't see that as a problem at all. Consider that in LA there are approximately 160 people who die every day from normal causes and general non violent accidents. That means a population of zombies could emerge and not be noticed by the wider public for a couple of weeks. And remember the public would be told this…

Of all the bad ideas and things that come out of CA the immunization thing is pretty low on the list. We can protect ourselves by being immunized, but we cant protect ourselves from the great dearth of nation inspiring bad choices they have made over the last couple of decades.

When you turn you get up and walk looking for food. We know the zombies can both see and hear and maintain enough mental function to act on what they see and hear. There were only two direction Cal could have gone, and one of those directions was back through the tunnel.

I wont speak for Fear TWD but I always got the impression that the candles in the shrine were made from the people that were eaten. Animal fat (and that includes people) can be made into candles as easily as wax can.

It all depends on how they develop the story of Project Wildfire. Remember season 1 of TWD at the CDC. The producers have already said they wont reveal what started the zombie plague but that still gives a lot of room to tell us how it all unfolds after it starts.

Are you a father? I can promise you that as a father I would walk into a gang fight unarmed and with a target on my chest to help my children be safe.

Here is the thing, divorced dad, junkie teenager, feel so generic because they are so plentiful in the real world.
We were not asked to anchor good will on the characters. We already know the world is going to die. Look at each of the characters, even the walk ones and tell yourself within a few weeks all of them…

Many drug addicts have strong survival instincts. If they didn't they would be the drug addicts you hear about who shot themselves.

But remember most people complain that the show pacing is always off, that good episodes are followed by long dull periods of character development. I would hope the writers learned from that critical response are using these first episodes to build characters so that once the world really begins to collapse we can…

I won't disagree that the show may have come off to some as boring. But then that was the point. People live boring lives. Even the people who wake up one morning in the Walking Dead started off with their own boring lives. Rick Grimes and Shane were eating breakfast the same as every day before the world fell apart.…

Ever see documentaries of homeless children or young junkies? Survival is a way of life. Those that make it a few months develop amazing survival skills. In the case of Nick I would surmise when he is not high or in withdrawal he would be acutely aware of danger around him. It all hinges on how the show plays his…

I think that's a little harsh for the show. Consider it this way…
1. This is LA, the big dirty city and people tend not to pay that much attention to what happens around them. Its an urban malaise that happens all to frequently even in the real world.
2. This is not just a person walking through the church, It is a well…