Updated after watching the episode.
I'm still having trouble believing that the script ISN'T written as an experiment in how stupid you can make plot points and get away with it.
The ethanol tanker, cos that stuff was in big demand and tankers of it were all over the place just before the zombie apocalypse, yep, anyway...., hey look, there's one outside and they need to drink some of it cos it cures anti freeze, but it gets shot up,... and then there was none, hang on.??? like not even some in the bottom of the barrel?, or a last drip or 3 of it coming out the holes they could get with their bucket, or like puddles of it they could scoop up from the big tanker that spilled it's content onto the ground.
Seriously, no seriously, could the 5 year old children who write this script not come up with a better reason for the ethanol run to fail than it poured onto the ground and becoming invisible? Here's one, it got set on fire, there you go, problem solved, and a nice special effect stunt to make it exciting.
Honestly all of us apart from the '10/10, best-episode-ever!!!, 'please-don't-make-me-lose-my-job-by-getting-my-show-cancelled' bots' feel we could write a better show than the handful of people actually hired to write the show.
The rest was the normal (for this show) children's preschool level story telling, grunted in caveman level explanations. Morgan need to show he 'does what he says', Morgan tells everyone, "he does what he say", Morgan do what he say!!! everyone laughs 'ha ha, ha ha'. It really is that simplistic.
And the moral of the story, beer cures everything, let's all have a happy beer, even the kid, but just this once,
Now there's a mysterious Denim factory we've not heard anything about before the last 5 mins?
This season started out well with ep 1, then 3 ok episodes, then a really good episode in ep 5 - 'Laura', the John Dorie focused one, then, a bunch of rubbish ones and one other decent one in ep 11, but only just decent. That's a pretty poor result for series 4 but still better than the last 2 series.
The actors are good, the production values, sound, and camera are good. The stories are terrible, and the writing is beyond bad, It's intelligence insulting nonsensical preschool basic rubbish.
This show could be good. hire me, or anyone on this board apart from the drones you're already paying to put up good reviews.
Check it out. 5 glowing reviews of this episode almost before it even aired. How does that happen? I'm guessing these are staff writers, or maybe even the actual program script writers who put so little effort in on the actual show they had enough time to come on here and put in a little job security effort to try and get a dying show that lost its way and is all over the place, renewed for a 6th season. Good luck to you team. Hopefully the $20 you invested in this campaign of hype pays off and you all get gainful employment for another year.
But, back to the show. I'll fill in the detail as soon as I see it.
