NailToTheX

-no real spoilers as nothing really happened- This was a hard episode to watch. Micheone's part wasn't too awful, but holy crap, what were the writers thinking with Carl. It was quite painful to watch. Sadly the worst walking dead yet. I like character development, but the writing and direction has to be there. It's hard to blame the young actor, the director should have the sense to realize that the emotional scenes are just not hitting the mark. It's not ringing true. I am not beating up on supposed character development - in fact I think they need fewer zombie special effect nonsense and more psychological content and story telling. I have been watching the walking dead this since the start and have been hoping that the writing and direction will improve. It has had a few moments of brilliance, but sadly most has been just tolerable. This one feels like rock bottom. Depending on how the rest of the season goes, I think I might have to stop buying this content... :/

This is a frustrating movie... The premise of the movie is absolute genius (as was part I). This could have been a lot more disturbing if it wasn't quite so over the top. I find movies quite annoying that seem to defy the basic tenants of science - horror movies (to me anyways) are much more 'enjoyable' if they seem even remotely possible/realistic. There's always the thought in the back of your head that this could actually be happening which is the disturbing part - I think the aim of a good horror movie - otherwise we may as well watch the cartoon road runner blow up that old coyote in make believe land. Character development could have also served well to draw the viewer in. TS, don't base the entire movie on outlandishly gory/grotesque scenarios, and then in the next five minutes try to outdo yourself. Sadly, rating it a 6/10 with the thought this could have been a savagely disturbing 10/10 - the kind of movie whereby you're uneasy closing your eyes afterwords... I know that I couldn't put a movie together half as good as this, but oh well... too bad, this was a missed opportunity for TS.