I really liked this show, but I feel we're getting cheated in the 2nd season.
It's not the plot, the first 2 episodes were ok, not great, not terrible. I loved the plot of the 3rd, but I'm upset about something.
In the zombie sequences, we are getting led. We are getting cheated.
It was the time and space argument I was making earlier, that is prevalant with most monster movies. Which you expect. If it`s kept to a min, it`s ok. But it's gotten even worse.
To open episode 3, they are trapped and can't open doors. Suddenly, without explanation they open doors and are running through a school hallway. ALL THEY SEE at the end of the hallway is a locked door. Change frame, different scene, come back. All of a sudden they can run left. (???) Change scene again, and somehow they avoided a giant zombie mob to have climbed up onto some bleachers. Bleachers which mind you, the zombies for some reason haven't figured out or climbed, even though they have destroyed all of society as we know it.
3 problems already, but we're not there yet. So the guys divide, the best route is the window in the gym, the other guy goes for the other door. We don't see him for a while. He shows up later. Weird enough, it ended up being the best route. There was a magical window there. One they didn't want to take before jumping onto the bleachers and trapping themselves?
They are falling into the problem regular monster movies have. Constant cheating of the audience. Showing a cliffhanger, only to show, an exit to the left.
This may die sooner than True Blood.
(Yeah I know I`m an episode late to the discussion.)
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