Thoughts (Criticisms) on Season Two during a re-watch

I'm nearly through the second season of a re-watch, and the thing that irks me the most is that the farm was the perfect place to ride out the first few years of the apocalypse until the walkers were all but bones; and with some foresight, it could have been made impregnable to walkers.

With a farm that size, there's no way Herschel doesn't have heavy equipment. My dad owns considerably less land than Herschel appears to, and he has two bulldozers. There's a bulldozer on that farm. And even if not, you can't go through any sizeable town in the south without a dealership that carries or rents heavy machinery. They could have bulldozers, excavators -- the whole nine yards, so to speak.

On the other side of those wooden fences that the walkers broke through, and just periodically here and there, they should have dug trenches for the walkers to fall into and built the dirt from them into a hill coming out of the trench as as second precaution. Should have welded a couple new rows of metal fences that are stronger to slow them down. There are small, battery-powered hunting cameras that people use to track wildlife and poachers -- using those to track walker movement and such around the farm.

Obviously, for the story's sake, they were going to have to get pushed off of the farm eventually, but I would have loved it if they had taken the steps to make it seem like they were really trying and had somehow lost the farm through human error -- someone is in a hurry and doesn't close the only gate in or out; an outside group makes their way in and inadvertently lets the walkers through the gates.

And aside from that, the thing that has me most annoyed from my re-watch is the lack of using scouts. Fort Benning is less than a hundred miles away, but they're ready to pack up the entire group and try for it instead of sending a single scouting group. Same thing goes for the CDC -- probably 10-15 miles from their original location.

And finally, there are literally military humvees littering the locations where they've been. And Shane is driving a Kia or something. And that fucking RV that gets 2 miles to a gallon and breaks down two or three times a day.

Breaking my balls, showrunners. Breaking my balls.

I enjoy the show, but I want to see the apocalypse approached the right way, and all hell breaking loose despite the earnest efforts of the survivors.

Submitted August 28, 2017 at 11:25AM by thewyche http://ift.tt/2xGTwvo