"Fear the Living Imbeciles"!
The main characters are ALL highly unlikable and just plain stupid. In spite of the show's premise that no one has any concept of "zombies", the main character's responses, reactions and attitudes towards what they have witnessed first-hand on numerous occasions concerning the dead/infected are utterly unnatural and down right ludicrous. Just read the blogs, they are full of examples of how stupid and ridiculous these characters are acting.
The ONLY person who has a clue about what is happening is "Nerd Zit Knife Boy". He gets it, he understands to a certain degree what is happening, what is coming and how to prepare, defend and ride it out. He warns "Wise Guidance Counselor Lady" (one of THE MAIN CHARACTERS) TWICE about what is happening; once BEFORE she sees the infected "walking dead" doing their thing and then he warns her AGAIN IN DETAIL AFTER SHE HAS TWICE SEEN what the infected, dead walkers do once they are infected and reanimated. He warns her the second time right after they both have an encounter with dead, infected "Principal Bite Me"; who she eventually kills BECAUSE HE IS WILDLY FROTHING AT THE MOUTH AND TRYING TO EAT HER! Now, any normal functioning human being would logically come to the following conclusions after experiencing such events:
"'Nerd Zit Knife Boy' previously warned me about what was happening; I have seen this for myself TWICE! He Has warned me AGAIN and told me what is coming, how to prepare and how to survive: 'Nerd Zit Knife Boy' KNOWS (to a certain degree) what is happening, what we need to do in order to prepare and what my family needs to do in order to SURVIVE; 'Nerd Zit Knife Boy' is an exceptional asset who is vital to our very survival; he has told me his entire family is out of town and he has no idea if or when they will (if ever) return and he is all alone with no one to look after him; THEREFORE I SHOULD TAKE HIM HOME WITH ME." Under the circumstances any normal human being would reasonably think this way and come to this obvious conclision, especially after what she has just experienced AGAIN first hand. But, does "Wise Guidance Counselor Lady" do ths? NO! She proceeds to drive "Nerd Zit Knife Boy" home, where she drops him off to face his unenviable, inevitable "fate" on his own. However, the show's inept writers did have the foresight to make sure that she asked him: "are out going to be alright?" To which he timidly answers "yes (until I get over run and eaten by zombies [opps I used the dreded "Z" word])".
Frankly, at this point, I am rooting for the walker "zombies" (darn it, I just said the dreaded "Z" word again) to kill, eat or infect ALL of the main characters so that the ENTIRE, DISFUNCTIONAL, CAST DIES OFF and the show then focuses on an entirely new set of strong main characters, somewhere else in the city who have a modicum of common sense and act like normal, REASONING human beings would conduct themselves under the circumstances! "Nerd Zit Knife Boy" would be a prime candidate for the new main cast since he's the ONLY character in the entire mess of a series who has got a clue!:
"Go Nerd Zit Knife Boy!"
The show's producers should also fire ALL of the writers because they don't know what the heck they are doing, or how NORMAL people would act or respond in the midst of a deady, viral, apocalyptic epidemic of this magnitude, especially if they have witnessed what is taking place for themselves!
The show is terrible; however there are numerous people who have been making all sorts of lame excuses for the utter ineptitude (and unlikability) of all the main characters in the vain hope that "things will get better". <> As I said previously; the only way FTWD can "get better" is if the entire cast of main characters get infected and dies off and the series reboots with an entirely new cast, because at this point the existing cast is so unlikable and down right stupid the majority of the audience doesn't care if they live or die to the point that many are rooting for the Zombies, opps, I mean "Walkers".
LOL that was an amazing post. :)