# The Walking Dead; 2.02 "Bloodletting" (open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 23, 2011, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-2-02-bloodletting-open-spoilers/600579 "2011-10-23T22:51:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![conurepete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@conurepete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conurepete)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-2-02-bloodletting-open-spoilers/600579/61 "2011-10-27T13:00:32Z")
I am certain that we are watching the “dumb” melodramatically emotional survivors. But it is like in Shawn of the Dead, if we follow the competent group, it will get pretty dull. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-2-02-bloodletting-open-spoilers/600579/62 "2011-10-27T23:53:48Z")
> [@MaddyStrut](#): > > Odd choice to use up their “kid in peril” trump cards at the start of the season. One kid is missing and the other has been shot. I don’t know if I like that decision or hate it. I’m not a fan of kid in peril story lines, so maybe this means we won’t have any more when they’re resolved. That would be nice! I was going to say just this. I think the kid in peril stories are indicators of poor writing, so I’m a little worried that we’ve already gotten two different kids in peril, overlapping, during the first two episodes. This is what they were able to come up with during the break? ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-2-02-bloodletting-open-spoilers/600579/63 "2011-10-28T00:17:45Z")
Shane _had_ to get ass deep in zombies, the group _has_ to remain split and _has_ to go back in the woods because of the kids. Although I don’t care about the kids or their storyline, I’m hoping they make the rest of the situation more interesting. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-2-02-bloodletting-open-spoilers/600579/64 "2011-10-28T01:01:13Z")
Maybe it’s just me but I feel like this series has weak and almost 1950s cliche overly emotional female characters/dialogue. The farm girl on the horse has promise though. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-2-02-bloodletting-open-spoilers/600579/65 "2011-10-28T04:53:12Z")
> [@Fubaya](#): > > Wow, what a terrible exit-from-the-medical-trailer plan. Does no one think ahead on this show? Don’t keep a road flare for the return trip. Don’t look out to see what’s going on, just barge on out and get their attention, then wait for 5 seconds to make sure they see you. 1)When Otis (that was his name, right) mentioned that they had to get to the medical _trailer_, I thought that instead of wading through the sea of zombies that Rick would grab the Hummer (Humvee?) that was sitting right that and attempt to just hitch it up and just drag the whole thing back to the farm. 2)If that was blue meth, it was _a lot_, he must have been dealing. Hell, I thought it was Adderall, but if it was any kind of drug in that bag, it was a lot of it, so I suppose it could have been blue meth. 3)Rick, IRL, I noticed has a British accent. Also, his father in law is Ian Anderson. 4)When Lori was pulling up on the horse, I was half expecting Rick to warn everyone that she’s going to be uber pissed, especially at Otis. 5)When they found the tent in the woods (I think that was last week), did it bother anyone the way they went about looking in it? Kind of sneaking up on it? ISTM in ‘this day and age’ they really need to be announcing their presence since zombies can’t talk. I’d think that if I was sitting in my tent and something opened it without telling me they were about to do it, they’d likely meet the business end of whatever weapon I had in my hand. I know they eventually had Carol call out for Sopie but Merle had already been poking around in it and if there had been a non-zombie human in there he very well might have started shooting. I’d think by now any time they are entering something unknown and there isn’t an obvious zombie presence that they need to keep quiet about they need to be saying something, anything, even a simple “Is there anyone here?” Along those same lines, it also seems like when two people approach each other instead of attacking a quick “Hey, say something or I’ll kill you” would resolve a lot of problems. (I just caught up, watching all of S1 and 2.1 in the last 2 weeks or so.) Lastly I watched last week’s Talking Dead and I’m about to watch this weeks. The asked the writer about one of the plot holes and he gave, IMO, a really bad answer. As I’ve seen discussed in all these threads (which I’ve skimmed as I watched the episodes) and noticed myself, there’s a lot of plot holes. I hope that if they’re not going to try to close them up, he keeps his mouth shut about them since it makes it sound like they’re not even trying. Especially when AMC also has Breaking Bad. A show which seems to go out of their way to close up almost every single plot hole they can find. They almost seem to look for them just to sew them up (save one major one, but the jury is still out as to if they left it open on purpose). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-2-02-bloodletting-open-spoilers/600579.md?page=3)