[fredr123]

Build up episodes like these are tolerable when you're blasting through a whole season at a time on your PVR or Netflix. Leading off the second half of the season with one after all the hype and build up from the mid-season finale is a mistake.

As others have said, the outcome of the Dixon Brothers fight, Michone's "plate of poop under her nose at all times face" and refusing to talk, Rick's return to crazytown, Darryl's decision to follow his brother, Andrea in general... all of it came across as lazy writing or out of character reactions. I don't know if changes to the writing staff are partially responsible or Mazzara doesn't care any more knowing he's done as show runner at the end of the year or if the production lost momentum during the hiatus or I'm just being hypercritical of a show about a zombie apocalypse. Maybe a combination, I suppose.