Mother Dick

For those of you who watched The Walking Dead this Sunday it definitely wasn’t one of the stronger episodes. It was however a really good example of some of my Top 10 The Walking Dead Complaints. Namely “We leave no one behind” and “Meh I’ll do it later”. One of the strongest things I found about this tv show was the characters did what I would do. Meaning that in certain situations the writers made sure that characters acted like normal people and not like characters in horror movies. However every now and then the writers seem to fall prey to that horror movie genre, and in order to create drama they create things that most people with any common sense just wouldn’t do, or create situations that just sort of make you scratch your head.
A quick example. When they entered the warehouse looking for parts for the power grid, they came across a pack of walkers stuck behind a chain link face. First off I have no clue why 20 people would be locked in fence inside a warehouse in the first place. But when they found them all they just left them there. a great example of We leave no one behind. Take a few minutes to take out the zombies easily and safely behind the fence, then you can search the warehouse with ease and comfort. And don’t even get me started on the super grenade.
Another thing that really bothered me was the shooting of the hydraulic line in order to have a character fall into a bad situation. It was just a cheesy way to create suspense (which seemed to be the theme this episode) and I found myself laughing at the entire scene. I’m really interested as to where that guy was even aiming because he was a good 15 feet too far to the left and unless there was a walker that was 20’ tall he may have been aiming a little high as well.
All in all it wasn’t my favorite episode and there was just too many scenes that were unbelievable, frustrating, or just made me shake my head. People who have been surviving for years suddenly became chowder heads, and it just seemed gimmicky and unbelievable. There was one epic part of the episode however… “Mother Dick”