There was enough moaning about spoilered posts on TWD in the main TV thread last year that we're aswell getting a thread going early on.
Spoiler pertains to season six episode one.
Toggle SpoilerAs entertaining as that was, and it was entertaining, it still had all the usual problems.
The plan to lure all the walkers from the massive pit to wherever Rick planned to get rid of them relied on the walkers in that garage being killed, but rather than dispatch them while they had about fifteen people on hand the day before, they sent three people to do it once it was time sensitive. I've always said you can overlook the various zombie tropes with this, the stealth zombies and the overwhelmed good guy inexplicably killing fifty of them off screen for surprise value, but that's just having people we're otherwise supposed to believe are hyper competent behave like idiots. That's not a genre trope, it's unforgivably poor writing.
Along similar lines, Rick has just seen Carter shit himself when confronted by about five walkers, having earlier wanted to kill him for putting a gun on Eugene. Why, at a crucial moment in the plan, seemingly about a week later, and without Carter having gained any ostensible experience or training, does he trust him to go off himself? If it was during a dry run and he hoped the twat would get eaten to save him the bother of having to biff him I could have bought it, but again, that's just having the main characters behave like puddings to create artificial tension.
I could have done without them repeating themselves, with Morgan entering just as Rick kills someone for the second time in two episodes, but I understand that they're hoping the audience will increase with each passing season, so I get the desire to refresh that potential conflict.
I think more than anything this episode serves to confirm that the show is immeasurably better when Morgan is around. The premiere is still the best episode they've ever done, and the other one in the top three along with the 'look at the flowers' episode is the second time Morgan turned up. Without him around to immediately see through Carol and all the other moments of quiet brilliance he brings I think I'd probably have been harder on this.
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