Quote Originally Posted by Political Hack View Post
the characters blow, the story skipped the chaos of society crumbling, and the end of the season climax was pretty anti-climatic. There should have been news clips and radio clips throughout while things were unraveling to explain how it was spreading, video of other areas under attack, what the warnings were from the government, Presidential address, a preview of DC as a teaser for TWD, etc... they could have done so much.

that said, it's watchable and I'll continue to watch it during the offseason of TWD, but it's not even close.
You pretty much nailed it. It is (or at least the final episode when it finally got moving is) plenty entertaining. They didn't do any of the things they claimed they were going to do. They just spent 5 episodes of relatively boring character development just to skip over what they said they were going to explore and jump right into another TWD. I'm fine with that, but they could have gotten here in two episodes if all they wanted to do was have another TWD.

It almost felt like the entire plan changed halfway through the season. It's like they wrote two or three episodes with the expectation that they were really going to explore how society would break down over a couple or more six episode seasons, and then execs told them to scrap what they were doing, and just use these six episodes to set up another TWD for next season.