OK I can now finally read this thread, as I just finished watching all the episodes from this season that have been clogging up our DVR for the past several months.
First, some background:
- My wife got me into watching this show, and I really, really enjoyed season 1. Totally desolate cities, abandoned interstates, the journey to the CDC, a sense of mission - good stuff.
- Then season 2 came, and maybe if I rewatched it now or had set my expectations appropriately I'd feel differently about it. But I felt like that sense of mission and purpose (having some sort of goal/vision/endgame for the group) disappeared. I kept expecting them to leave the farm and get back to the highway and back on the road again - but they never did. They just stayed at that farmhouse the whole season.
- And then season 3, which had great promise for awhile, but eventually lost my interest by the end. I just couldn't believe the actions of some of the characters. OK, I get that now we see the Governor is a complete psychopath, but why on earth would all the others who had grouped up with him think it's a good idea to murder a whole squad of National Guard troops w/ gear, weapons, training, etc? What does that accomplish and why did all the Guv's lackeys seem to take satisfaction in it? Bizarre.
And in general, it seems like many times characters (whether our main group or other people we've come across) have the ability to survive pretty well but somehow always manage to fail. Is that just a plot device I'm supposed to buy into and let my belief be suspended? I suppose so, but the number of times my wife and I have said to each other "why don't they just X, cause that would make a lot of sense" is quite a large number. Except for the giant herd factor, these zombies should not pose that big of a threat. They're pretty defeatable in small numbers. And even in large numbers, a disciplined group should cut through that. (which makes you wonder how the zombie apocalypse ever really took off in the first place, but I digress...)
So that leads me to the whole thing about the prison and the fence. There should NEVER have been any groups of zombies just standing there banging on the fence. I know they threw us a couple scenes showing people stabbing them through the fence, but with the numbers the prison group had, that should just be a constant on-going job. I know it would be boring, and obviously would make the show a lot less exciting, but in reality a couple people in shifts should have just been on full-time "poke them through the fence" duty. Problem solved.
- 2 people x walker every 15 seconds x 8 hours a day = 3,840 zombies killed a day =)
Finally, why did all of the Guv's new camp seem so eager to rush in and fight after he killed Herschel? I mean, once that tank plowed through the fence, my first thought was "uhhh, the whole premise of them being there was so that they could take over and have a safe location with fences to protect them". I'm not sure why all the random camp people all of a sudden became bloodthirsty killers who just want to fight for fighting's sake and take over a worthless site. Not one of them was like "Woah, Guv, wtf dude? I didn't sign up for this... I'm out".
Anyway, overall it's an interesting and usually exciting zombie show, but I guess I'm one of those audience members who just can't buy into what we're supposed to swallow a lot of the time, and thus have a hard time realizing my maximum enjoyment.