Bayouwolf wrote:1) At the CDC, they were walking within INCHES of dozens of automatic weapons, military hardware, riot gear, etc..., while surrounded by hundreds of bodies with bullet holes in their heads. Why would you have everyone running together for an unknown doorway when there was so much to be looted from the surrounding corpses? Obviously they weren't zombies anymore, go collect some supplies/ammo/clothes, etc...
the guns, ammo etc weren't going anywhere. i think they were more interested in getting inside the building and hopefully finding somebody there who could help them. they didn't travel all the way to the CDC just to get more guns, they went there to find others. they could always gather up whatever guns and ammo they wanted if and when it came time to leave.
Bayouwolf wrote:2) They allowed themselves to get SURROUNDED with a massive ROUND building at their back with closed shutters. Why didn't anyone else go look for another way in? Just seems to not follow a logical law enforcement officer protocol, Hell, even the Scooby gang knew when to split up...
it's not like they got there, found the one door closed, and then broke out the lawn chairs and just sat their a few hours, saying "guess we'll just wait til someone opens that door". they were only there a couple minutes before shane and rick started arguing about whether to stay or go. not really much time to devise a plan for finding an alternate entrance. and by the time shane was almost about to leave, rick noticed the camera moving. so obviously it made more sense to wave at/talk to the camera to let them in, then going looking for another entrance that would surely also be locked and closed off as well.
Bayouwolf wrote:3) Why on earth would you bring CHILDREN into an unknown area of a known hot zone? It's not safe at the quarry anymore, I get that...BUT JUST LAST FUCKING WEEK we saw a perfectly safe place the kids could have holed up for the night while the adults went looking for anyone at the CDC...What's the point of showing us angry Latino's with hearts of gold, when it gets forgotten the next fucking day?
is the CDC building actually inside atlanta? i got the impression that it was somewhere on the outskirts or something, not in the actual city, since we never saw them driving back inside the city. i think it would've been kinda risky to drive straight through a city that's been overrun with zombies, just to drop off a few kids. plus, i don't think any of them want to be split up again. i imagine they felt (and i would agree with them) that the kids were safer with them, wherever they might have gone, then risking everyone to drive through a horde of zombies in the city.
the one thing that bothered me was that blonde chick hanging over her dead sister all that time. maybe for you comics readers, you knew how it was going to turn out, but to me it seemed pretty dumb. of course, we haven't seen how the transition from dead person to walking dead person in this particular zombie goes, and it seems to be a slower, more gradual process than what we're used to in zombie films, where a zombie just suddenly wakes up and lunges for the nearest fresh meat. so i guess if she/they knew that the sister wasn't just going to suddenly spring back to unlife and take a bite out of her, it makes a little more sense. but i, and i'm sure most people watching, were just waiting for that jump scare moment.
they need to resolve whatever happened to merle. they can't just forget about that character, if he disappears and is never seen again, that will be weak. i'm still operating on the theory that he led the zombies up to camp, at least until the show tells me different. but if not, maybe he'll get back to camp and find that note that rick left on the car and follow them to the CDC.
the CDC stuff didn't bother me. it's a bit far-fetched i guess, that there'd only be one guy left alive. but the idea of a bunch of zombies overrunning the US military is much more far-fetched (world war z is a bit more believable in how a zombie apocalypse would actually play out), yet its taken for granted in this show. i have to think we'll see a flashback next episode when the CDC doctor finally meets the survivors and tells them his story, and that will explain how things ended up the way they did at the CDC. as for the timeline, i think he said about 160 days since the "disease" was first identified, and something like 80 or 90 days since it became an epidemic. we don't know how long rick was in the hospital before it got overrun or abandoned, but if the epidemic began around 80 days, they may have held out for 40 or 50 days before leaving the hospital, giving him a month or so before waking up from his coma and leaving. i don't know if that's plausible or not, medically.
