The Walking Dead Forum

• Lori: I don't think this needs an explanation, her reaction at the end of the finale just made me want to fucking strangle something.
• Carl: Why can't natural selection kill this little shit any sooner? Hey there's zombies out there, i'll go fuck around. I guess the tard gene must be on the X chromosome of the family.
• T-Dog: All he does is complain, cry, and run away.
• Andrea: If shes so independent why doesn't she just fuck off on her own?
• Maggie and Glenn: Seem to be catching a case of the Lori
• Carol: Needs to follow her daughters path as quickly as possible

Why is almost every cast member a complete idiot? Excluding Hershel, Rick and Daryl. They also seem to be the only characters able to deal with emotional troubles, in a non psychotic or idiotic fashion. Ricks not there so they decide to play rodeo with the cars wasting gas and bullets? WTF? They run around like headless chickens, not even paying attention to whats happening. I understand panic, and fear but this is becoming ludicrous. I think Mr.Bean would fair a better chance then this lot.

I understand that hating a character can actually make people also want to watch a show, in hopes of seeing vengeance/karma enacted. But The Walking Dead is really pushing me to the limit with its constant one-dimensional melodrama.

I want all of the mentioned to perish, but having to deal with a character i hate ever single minute of a show is just too much. Mochone might bring in one more non-idiotic character, but there's still too many of the idiots.

On a side note, are all doors and fences made out of paper-mashe? Sheer numbers doesn't equate enough force to break cattle fences, and steel car doors. All those Walkers would just even out the load across the fence, MADE TO HANDLE FUCKING LIVE STOCK.

Its also hilarious how most living people would find it difficult to navigate barbed-wire while walkers seem to have it down. Even though its specifically designed to ensnare individuals.

Why not instead of breaking the fences, just have the walkers trample the ones in-front making a Walker bridge for the walkers in back to climb over? Its much more dramatic, and makes sense in all cases.

I'm giving Season 3 one episode to change my mind, otherwise i'm done with this show. Hasn't anyone learned anything from breaking bad? Good writing, and characters fucking matters.

I ceased watching The Walking Dead after the second episode of the second season. I just couldn't tolerate any of the whiny, indolent characters or the zombie-like pacing. Seriously, fuck that ill-written, bland, and resoundingly miserable show. I don't care if the season picked up, or if the future looks promising--I'm done. Now that I'm done vituperating, I should say that I don't care if you like the show or not; you're free to like whatever the hell you want.

They were trying to corral the zombies.

@mylifeforAiur said:

I ceased watching The Walking Dead after the second episode of the second season. I just couldn't tolerate any of the whiny, indolent characters or the zombie-like pacing. Seriously, fuck that ill-written, bland, and resoundingly miserable show. I don't care if the season picked up, or if the future looks promising--I'm done. Now that I'm done vituperating, I should say that I don't care if you like the show or not; you're free to like whatever the hell you want.

Yeah, I'm the same way. I liked the first season, but I stopped watching after the second or third episode of the second season. It just became....yawn.........

Yeah. I stopped watching the show after this season's 2nd episode. Most of the episodes on the 1st season were pretty boring too but I thought I'd give it a chance to become good on the 2nd season but that didn't happen.

I thought the first season was relatively good, though like I said, I haven't seen much of the second season. The first season was interesting enough, what with being introduced to the world, the characters, and the change of scenery from the town, to the city, to the campsite, to the CDC place, all within six episodes. Sounds like season two continued the trend established in it's first few episodes of people talking, hanging out in the woods, and doing stupid shit, so I feel no reason to hop back on. Maybe I'll pick up the comic or just reread World War Z to get my Z-fix.

Yeah they really messed up the character this season, the first season was great but the second season squandered all the good will I had for it, I will probably won't watch the third season.

Now I don't know how accurate the characters are to the comic book, but constantly with Lori, I wonder if the writers unknowingly hate women. She is probably the worst character I've come across in a while, and they keep on surprising me with how shitty she can be. She's not even shitty in an interesting way.

• Decides to sleep with another man mere weeks (days?) after her husband's supposed death.
• Sex with other man isn't sympathetic, "I'm lonely and lost without my husband and I'm having trouble coming to terms with it" sex, but raw-dogging from behind on the ground sex.
• On multiple occasions, cannot effectively look after her own kid.
• Gets mad at a guy for supposedly lying to her about her husband's death even though the guy genuinely thought her husband was dead.
• Thinks that women should be in the kitchen doing "women stuff".
• Assumes everyone should listen to her because of who her husband is.
• Apologizes to a man who tried to rape her.
• Mad at the same man because the man is doing what she asked, which was staying away from her kid.
• Crashes car, endangers herself, and gets mad at a guy who was only trying to protect her.
• Because of the previous fact, tries to convince her husband to monitor the guy instead of mentioning the whole "attempted rape" incident.
• Wonders -- out-loud -- if her son would be better off dead than alive.
• Mad at her husband for killing a man (same man who tried to rape her) in self-defense, even though the man would have killed her husband.

That's the reason why I stopped watching it. I just find everyone completely unrelatable and boring. I might go back to it when it's over, but right now I have no interest to watch it at all.

Indeed. The characters suck and the majority are one dimensional. Killing Dale was the biggest mistake so far. I don't watch it anymore

Season 2 was bad, and I do agree with you that most of the time I watch the show I find the characters to be annoying. The writing is sub par, the characters are one dimensional, and I'm losing interest in the zombie fad personally.

I'll watch the first couple of episodes of Season 3, if it doesn't click with me by then, I'll wipe my hands of it.

That's funny. I hate about 95% of this show...

...and it's for many of the reasons you listed in your OP. Beyond that, the second season was incredibly bland and boring. I really didn't give a shit about most of what happened (including the season finale).

i thought the last episode was kind of cool but im frustrated that less people died than they should have. it was basically only the totally insignificant characters that died. i know people died before but t-dogg shouldve died, andrea shouldve died, and sophias mom shouldve died. the lady with the 2 chained zombies looks pretty cool tho

Pretty much agree. If my wife didn't insist on watching it I don't think I'd bother.

If it wasn't for Daryl and Rick I definitely wouldn't bother.

Yeah, most of the characters are pretty awful on the Walking Dead. Lori, especially, is probably the most unlikable female lead I've ever seen on a show. That being said, Daryl, Rick, and to a lesser extent Herschel, Maggy and Glenn are good enough characters to keep me watching, especially considering it's one of the few TV shows that can genuinely surprise me anymore, and I love my zombie headshots.

Sidenote: how did everyone get so good at shooting zombies? I mean, I get them being good at using guns from Shane and Rick's training, but they get a headshot pretty much every single time. Even Lori, the most useless woman on the planet is an adequate zombie-hunter. There was even an episode with Andrea learning how to shoot them zombies and totally sucking at shooting moving targets. When did freaking Carl get this lesson? How did he go from being too afraid to shoot a zombie, point blank, stuck in the mud to shooting his best friend in the head, at night, over his father's shoulder? Other sidenote: how many rounds does Herschel's shotgun hold? Other OTHER sidenote: Why do zombies get the jump on so many people? How come they never realize that a slow, growling, thumping monster is right behind them?

Whenever they kill off Lori, I´ll have a big smile on my face. And that´s my biggest problem with the show, I dont care about any of the characters (except Rick and Darryl). I think the only reason I keep watching is because I love post-apocalyptic stuff.

Huh, good thing I dropped the show early in season 2.

Perhaps kind of unrelated, but how do people stand to watch Mad Men? All of the characters, aside from Don Draper, are immensely unlikable. Don Draper's an awful person, but he's intelligent and charming enough to make him interesting to watch. Everyone else just makes me want to kill myself. Despite all the good buzz that show has, I couldn't get past the first half of the first season because I hate everyone.

Yeah, I agree. The entire show is so lazily written.