Yeah. As a white person I’m offended by the obvious pandering to white people, or at least to white people of a certain mindset, shall we say. I mean, when the first episode aired, we all guessed that the principal would be toast, because he was black. Think you’re so smart and in-charge?..you’ll be put in your proper place, black principal!!! …And we all guessed that the black boyfriend would become toast, because black dude with white chick is not cool! (Among white people of a certain mindset.) …And we all guessed that the black drug dealer would get his just deserts: take that, you uppity ‘businessman’ making money off of helpless white teens!
It’s kind of revolting. No, scratch that–it’s genuinely revolting.
That was just idiotic writing and/or directing–as was the very careful shot of Mom putting the crow bar on the table (before trying to bend the locker-door open with her hands). Then, of course, nothing at all happened relating to the crow bar. Chekhov will be spinning in his grave.
Yep. And does it ever show! :mad:
I gave this episode a much higher vote than it deserved, simply because it was somewhat less chock-full of Stupid than was the pilot. (At least in this episode, people undertook risk-filled missions for actual good reasons. The mom couldn’t have gotten meds for her son any other way; the father really did feel impelled to find his son; the daughter really did think her boyfriend needed her help.) But now I regret having voted so generously.
Just a thought as why there might be OxyContin in the school’s medical room, my kids these days aren’t allowed to bring their own medication, even if it’s just Tylenol. It all has to be administered by the school nurse. The most realistic explaination is that was some student’s prescription for school hours.
That was my thought as to why the meds would be there. After all, if there were real drugs as contraband taken from students, wouldn’t the police have been called and the drugs taken as evidence?
It’s too bad I’m hopelessly compelled to brave these laughably written/acted scenes in the hope of seeing some fall of civilization action. Could save six hours and just watch the first ten minutes of the Dawn of the Dead remake instead.
The first named character who died was Gloria, the white female junkie, and the 1st zombie.
I was surprised that mom/counselor and Tobias(?) left the school without the food. Mom was there for the opiates but Tobias had made a long trip for nothing. Mom should have strongly insisted that Tobias join her family if only because Tobias appears to be a slow runner.
We talked about this a while back in a thread about TWD series. This is a world where the word ‘zombie’ doesn’t even exist. Much like that Sherlock Holmes series on CBS has to take place in a world where Arthur Conan Doyle never wrote books about his fictional detective.
I live in LA, and seeing so many people in houses pulls me out of the show every time.
Every damn person I know here lives in an apartment. But so far, only the barber and maybe Travis’ son and ex-wife live in apartments. Tobias was dropped off near houses. Calvin the drug dealer and Matt the boyfriend live in houses. We don’t know what Tobias’ or Matt’s parents do for a living, but we know Calvin was a drug dealer, and it’s believable to me that drug income helped pay for the house. So I’m having a hard time believing a high school guidance counselor and a divorced high school teacher who’s likely paying child support can afford that home.
At least the inflatable bouncy castle next door was realistic.
The combo of petulant teens who don’t listen and characters who don’t tell what they know is just as annoying and infuriating as I expected it to be. There’s so much consarned potential for this show and TWD that it makes me angry. At this point, I don’t see how it can redeem itself in 4 episodes.
I cautiously optimistic that next week’s show will be a good one. Things haven’t really started to go to hell quite yet, but I sense they will next week.
We’ll never find what cause the zombie apocalypse, and the cause is irrelevant anyway. The show is about how the zombie apocalypse caused society to breakdown and the characters desperately trying to survive it. And speaking of the dad; is anyone else thinking it would’ve been more interesting if Cliff Curtis was just playing a Kiwi? It’s make an interesting backstory, and could provide a reason to find out how a foreign country (the most isolated country on Earth) is handling things. Obviously the writers wouldn’t want to explore any of that.
That’s what I thought. I know my HS school nurse did have narcotics on hand because she once mentioned what a pain it was having to keep them in a locked cabinet in a locked storage room (regular meds just had to be in a locked cabinet).
As I noted in another thread, the writers originally wanted his character to be Hispanic, but he supposedly talked them into letting him be authentic-- not just a Kiwi, but a Maori. I think we can presume he’s not Hispanic (Travis???), but he’s Americanized his accent, so I’m getting the vibe that his ethnic background is going to be left out of the writing altogether. (Please read that last word as something like: awl-t’-gi-thuh )
Yet, surely you acknowledge that there are tons of detached houses in L.A., even if the people you know don’t live in them*. That’s a very weird thing to nitpick on. I used to live there too, and it was extremely common to meet people who lived in a house that they simply rented (often sharing the rent with others, as people also do in apartments), or if they were the owners they often had to rent a room or two to other tenants to help make the mortgage (even if they have a family, which I’ve always thought of as kind of an awkward living arrangement). Although particular characters living beyond their means is to be expected in the world of TV.
*Looked it up and according to NMHC, apartments only made up 43% of occupied housing units as of 2013 (so 57% are houses), and that’s only in L.A. city proper. I’d be willing to bet if you looked at the greater L.A. metro area, i.e. L.A. county, you’d find that closer to 65-70% of occupied dwellings are detached houses and not apartments.
