The Hurt That Will Happen

This is the episode that finally made me give up the series.

I've been watching since season 1. Season 3 was especially excellent. Season 4 started taking a nose dive and it's now become unwatchable.

The writing has become absolutely terrible. It seems like it's being written by a high school drama club who think they're being artsy but it just falls flat. Everything is so "on the nose," including the dialogue.

Characters randomly appear whenever it's convenient. Radios go in and out when convenient. Just ridiculous cliches and troupes, one after another, after another.

The acting has gotten consistently worse, though I would say through no fault of their own. It really seems like the actors know how awful the writing is and they're forcing their lines out.

There's no real storyline other than the same Morgan nonsense over and over and over again. Killing bad. Must help everyone. Must make up for past. Find more people to preach the gospel to endlessly. It's the same thing we've been seeing since what, around season 4 of the main series? The beating of this dead horse has gotten beyond old.

The season premiere was bad but this might be the worst episode of the entire series. It's really a shame what they did to this show after how amazing it was a couple of seasons ago.

As far as a horror series it's really not bad. A series would be much more difficult than a movie trying to maintain the attention of the audience. Most thrillers are really bad and you can't watch them all the way through. In almost all of them it's the same. It's not the actors failing in their roles or the characters they are portraying but the writers attempting to make scenes thrilling, excite the audience. In their efforts to make it more exciting they fail to make the actors responses realistic. They are portrayed as hard cored survivors, making it where others fail, yet while encountering certain situations they don't respond how most adults actually would. They respond more like a group of Kindergarten students out of a city fresh off a school bus. It actually doesn't achieve the desired response in elevating excitement but makes you feel frustrated at how inept they suddenly become. It's also frustrating when certain characters, (Morgan), talk way to much as if they enjoy hearing their own voice which actually becomes abrasive. They seem like they need to over explain everything which results in delaying a realistic response. Often someone else saves them by eliminating the threat while they are still enjoying the sound of their voice or savoring the attention they are getting. Then theres always inconsistencies in scenes, like the new and shiny bolt on a old corroded sign they dig out from the side of the road. Most of us are pretty critical of others work even though we couldn't do better but every once in a while a movie or series comes out that is satisfying. In the meantime we keep searching and feeling annoyed because we were hoping for more.

How hard is it to find decent writers nowadays.. pretty rare thing in 2019. The group goals is to find another plane because the first one they crashed... hey lets try that again... to find a random bunch of kids... and stubbornly help people if it means being completely reckless and idiotic in reason. The characters appear to be becoming dumber by the episode... its staring to feel like TWD... Just end this show.. its no longer its original self.. instead they seem to have highjacked it for no reason. why? Im watching soley for Alycia now... please kill her off so I can move on from this show. RIP FWD

Sorry . . . I just had to go there, but seriously, the most likely to be tragic character of Grace and her mea culpa actions adds an interesting, bittersweet touch to this episode. It's also about time we meet more people involved in the science of The Walkers. I am intrigued about how radioactive-laced walkers can ratchet up the tension in upcoming encounters/skirmishes. It's always nice to see DS and his ability to see through the BS of other characters. Like other viewers, I'm done with established characters doing dumb things to service the plot . . . C'mon! Luciana deserves better writing (i.e. Season 3).

It must be said that this episode is filmed brilliantly with tones reminiscent of a graphic novel: the stark black of the crows against the gray wash of the landscape - truly beautiful work.

This season is becoming really annoying. The characters are getting dummer just pull the plug out the plug on this AMC it's a shame for the eyes.