Feb 10 2014 11:45am  The Walking Dead, S4 E9 “After”  TBH,
watching The Walking Dead is rather an ambivalent experience for
me. I love the tense drama, the philosophical debates, the clash
between morality and the will to live. Heck, I even love the
zombies. On the other hand, almost every character is infurating
inconsistent or frustratingly unknowable. Practically every
major narrative arc on TWD has failed, then been dug out of the
trash and reused with diminishing returns.  The CDC lab was
pointless, Hershel’s farm a timesuck, the prison a dead end, and
the plague went nowhere. Rick wants to be the leader, Rick
doesn’t want to be the leader, Rick is pushed into power, Rick
refuses power, Rick talks to his dead wife on a broken phone,
Rick pretends to be a farmer. Shane decides he’d be a better
leader and fights Rick to the death for it. The Governor decides
he’d be a better leader and fights Rick to the death for it.
Sophia, an innocent child, gets killed by zombies in a frenzied
attack that separates the