1921

This is the most bizarre complaint ever. They shoudl’ve picked a part of Atlanta that looks more like Atlanta? It is Atlanta! They weren’t doing a walking tour of Atlanta’s most famous landmarks, and they sure as shit shouldn’t go into obvious deathtraps like an underground mall. Although now that I put it like that, I’m surprised they didn’t. Probably just because Lori wasn’t there.

1922

Walking Dead shoot locations.

Aeon is weird.

1923

Oh you know they totally would. That’s why I was shocked by them not bothering to hit it. I mean, these are the sort of people who think taking the interstate to get to Fort Benning is a good idea.

Speaking of which, I’m not really sure where they are supposed to be, but going from the CDC south along 85 means traveling right through the middle of Atlanta. All of it. CDC is in the northeast. Unless you go along the Perimeter, which sucks worse, or head out along 78 eastbound until you hit one of the tiny southbound roads outside the Perimeter that are practically guaranteed to be blocked by fallen trees and flooded out bridges – this happens regularly even without zombocalypse. Seeing as they are like totally inept, I’m not sure how on earth they’d have managed that feat. Also would have put them right at Stone Mountain. Which is why I figured they would have been camping out there.

Anyway, of course the complaints were bizarre, I was pissed off by the CDC not looking/being like the CDC. On a tv show. Full of zombies. I’m just nit picking. My real complaints are about the crappy lead characters

Also I have trouble believing in a rural Georgia family without a tv or a single football item in their house. Not even one item of the practically ubiquitous Dawgs merch that you can’t go five feet without finding?

1924

Look at the map. Scroll in real good. What’s the epicenter of most of their shooting? Georgia State.

edit: Also HOLY SHIT I did not recognize Cobb as the CDC, that is hilarious.

1925

No, you’re weird because you hate that instead of shooting Atlanta in Toronto or Vancouver or Washington State or Australia or California, as is highly typical in TV production, they shot it in…the “wrong” parts of Atlanta.

1926

Because it could very well be in one of those cities rather than Atlanta.

Also give me a break, the previous pages are full of complaints about insufficient onscreen animal husbandry! At least my realism complaints are reasonable!

I mean come on there is no logical route out of Druid Hills to Fort Benning by car during rush hour, let alone post zombocalypse! And if you are going to go scavenging in Atlanta there are plenty of better places than near GSU. Like WalMart or Costco. There are several stores and malls out in the burbs that have way better stocks and supplies.

Also we have shiiiiitloads of gun stores and ranges!

And if we’re thinking booze, there’s a WalMart sized liquor store in Lawrenceville.

So, like, these people are not prioritizing.

1927

This is the dumbest criticism of the show I have read. You’re a moron.

1928

Neither are you.

1929

I keep forgetting that the show is a documentary about zombies in Georgia. That kind of inaccuracy is unforgivable.

1930

Bingo! I agree. I think Lori is repulsive – she looks like a zombie. I was thinking that most of the cast characters are not attractive at all.

BUT

then I realized my mistake. I have been programmed to think that every character on a major TV show should look like 90210/Dawson’s Creek/Melrose Place types. It’s actually refreshing that the main characters are not attractive. It makes it a little more real.

1931

Things I would like to see:

When they go into town for supplies, how about hitting a store other than the pharmacy? Sure, we’re all supposed to care about Lori and her mood swings, but how about if they pick up some stuff from the hardware store or the feed shop? A modern farm is not totally self-sufficient. Especially when they’re running their generator all the time.

Somebody needs to actually see the opportunity in all of this. Aside from Andrea stealing a necklace and Shane getting a nicer car out of the highway traffic jam, nobody has done any serious looting. They’ve still got the same shitty RV, Darryl is still the only one with a weapon that can kill silently, and the farm people have trucks that were old before I was born. I want to see somebody taking stuff just because it’s there, and they can. Like when Glenn went joyriding in the Mustang. The entire world is a dollar store, let loose a little.

Lori, dead. This should probably go at the top of the list.

1932

Well you’re Lori, so neener neener!

1933

how about just cleaning out the pharmacy all at once since its a safe bet they are going to need most of that stuff? the characters on this show make the dumbest choices ever.

1934

I think having them do some sustained looting is a great idea. Besides the fact that it’s what people in that situation would really do, it gives the characters a chance to be pro-active. They can still have their character drama. Lori/Shane/Rick still plays out the same, just against a backdrop of them looting, instead of them loafing around the farm.

Even if Herschel didn’t want anything, they can still be outfitting themselves since they aren’t doing anything else except searching for the kid(and not all of them are even doing that). It occurs to me that Herschel, living there, may well have whatever he wants by this point. For instance, I can see myself just sticking with my trusty tractor if I was him, instead of immediately getting another one. Assuming my trusty tractor does the job of course.

1935

I find it funny that someone is criticizing the show for not looking like Atlanta. I’ve recognized almost every location they’ve used. Of course, I used to work in the building they did the roof shots on (used to be Norfolk Southern’s primary offices in Atlanta), so I probably have an unfair advantage and am not relying on them using fapping fan service shots of landmarks for no reason at all.

I bet Aeon is upset because they didn’t show the Big Chicken!

1936

I bet Aeon is upset because he has a tiny zombie penis.

1937

He’s a walker, not a talker.

1938

Throw me in with not understanding the Atlanta complaints. I’ve been through the city numerous times… you can see that it has a decent built-up portion. Yeah, most of it is sprawl, it’s not exactly Philadelphia in terms of scope of skyline, but they didn’t really try to portray Atlanta as something that it’s not, either.

The only legitimate complaint is that the group goes to center city to get supplies when they should be hitting up any number of Wal Marts in the surrounding suburbs.

1939

THIS.

The suburban scenes were the best ones in this episode in my opinion. From the first glimpse with the garbage sitting by the curb, to the final shot of the zombies closing in from all sides it was the creepiest thing they’ve done since season one. I longed to hear more about what happened in that house, from the walled off hallway to the stairs with the dead zombie pileup tot he garage with the burned corpses. Did the owners try to make a stand and fail? Did they escape? It would have been a great 5 minutes or so to have Shane looking at the scene and narrate what he thought might have happened based on the evidence, and it wouldn’t even have been a stretch given that he was a police officer prior to the ZA. The whole thing reminded me so much of my own neighborhood that I could not stop thinking about what I would do to protect my kids if something like that happened here, and THAT is good TV.

This show needs less Lori/Rick/Shane melodrama and far more of the thought provoking and creepy scenes of the ZA both before the show’s timeline and after. The webisode was a perfect example of this, and that sort of thing could be easily incorporated into the show by having other survivors recount their experiences in the first days of the ZA and by having the merry band do a little more exploration and looting (as mentioned in previous posts) with a little bit of exposition laid over the top so that we get a feel for what happened in the places they visit.

Bottom line, this show is stalling big time. It’s gone from being an exciting and geniunely scary story about a zombie apocalypse (remember how those first couple of episodes with Rick waking up and the Lennie James side story felt?) to a mostly boring and trite character melodrama about relationships and how people fall apart under stress. That stuff is fine, as long as you don’t lose site of the reason said people are under stress, the zombie freaking apocalypse. Either they pick things up in the second half of the season, or they should just chuck it and go with the brilliant idea someone suggested of having Daryl and Glenn star in a spaghetti western set in the ZA.

1940

I really enjoyed the suburban scenes too, but the one thing that annoyed me was how neatly lined up the garbage cans were. They should have been knocked over and more torn apart by the wildlife.