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Originally Posted by Draft Dodger
a little late to the party because we just recently caught up.
I don't mind the season so far...although I do think the slower pace would have benefited from some more deft character development. I totally agree that we don't connect with most of the characters (still not sure I could remember all the names of everyone). Heck, I was trying to remember the people from the group who had died in season one and couldn't do it. There was some person who they left by the side of the road, there was the one chick's sister, and I think someone blew up in the CDC? And I can't picture any of them, not even sure the gender of the side of the road person. Everyone either has no depth (dorky Glenn, the chick who wants to shoot things, the grandpa guy, Sophie's mopy mom) or they have depth but it's handled so comically that they appear schizophrenic (hello, Shane). You think of, for example, all the amazingly complex and interesting characters from Lost and almost any of them would be a huge upgrade, even the lamest ones like Libby or Ana Lucia.
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Good post. They are generally doing a poor job with the show IMHO, and I always feel one episode away from just stopping my viewing. The mid-season break could easily lead to me forgetting about the show and not returning.
Your description of the shallow nature of most characters, and my inability to only vaguely recall those who have been killed off is right on.