Thanks, at last someone other than me can see that this show has lost it's edge.
Remember the scene when Shane and Rick went out on their road trip, ended up fighting each other. Well, remember the scene with the odd looking walker out there on his own walking through the field? And Shane just zoned out staring at the walker as they drove past, and the awesome music. Wow, that's what I want to see, real cult TV, edgy, great music, some awesome drama.
And now all we have is A-Team style gun battles and lame writing.
Bring on Game of Thrones. Sadly once, the "millions" start watching GoT, TWD will look like it really was directed by the A-Team writers.
Season 2 had some bad writing too and it didn't feel like an apocalypse... it just felt like a soap opera on a farm. There was no suspense, sense of dread or impending doom, just 13 episodes of Lori being a bitch and Rick being a pussy. Season 1 really had atmosphere to it, it was tense and the tone was very much apocalyptic, the characters felt real and smart. Then season 2 came and it was half a season of looking for a noncharacter that no one cared about only for her to be dead the whole time. The second half of the season was based on a ridiculous scenario that required Rick being an idiot and making contrived decisions. then they dragged it out for like 6 episodes of Rick crying about what to do only to ultimately not do a damn thing about it either way.
This show really went down hill after season 1 and it's sad because it has a LOT of potential. I read the comics during the midseason break of season 2 and it didn't take me long to realize how much better they are. People talk about how the show has had all this character development when the truth is it hasn't had much if any for most of the characters. The comics actually present the characters consistently as smart people doing their best at the end of the world, while the show has characters making contrived idiotic choices that would only serve to make their own lives harder just to further the plot... it's a wreck. And all the lazy character writing is compounded by the fact that they have the source material available to them... how hard is it to write something that has ALREADY BEEN WRITTEN?
After a great first season and after reading the comics I hold this show to high standards and really want it to live up to it's potential and it could if the writers just tried even a little. This is a show about the end of the world and dumbing it down for TV is really ruining the story. If I judge this show harshly it's only because I want it to be the great show that it could be, instead of just the average show that it is.