My roomie forced me to watch the first two episodes of FTWD. I haven't seen TWD and therefore had no idea what it's all about (except that dead people become zombies and so on).
I thought it was quite alright, but nothing really good. Of course I liked the young Megan Fox, but in general I was really annoyed at the lack of basic communication between the "main" characters. Seriously, why is it so fucking hard to tell each other that you just had to kill some guy because he tried to eat your face? For me the worst moment of the second episode was when the mom went back to school to get some drugs for her junkie. First the stupid scene with Chubby McFatfuck where he essentially says he came back to school for his knife. 
And then when they meet the zombie "let's try to talk to him, even though he is bleeding out of his face and looks like a dead person walking and I've been attacked by something like that just a few hours ago". The coronation of this scene, for me, was when they left without all the food.
The food thing pissed me off as well. I think its a case of a bad edit really, they should have shown there were more walkers in the building, which the metal detector alarm going off repeatedly seemed to suggest. Then it would have been a case of fuck carrying all this shit we need to run now. As it was, they had the fat idiot go back for a single can of soup while they were legging it, then left the fucking lot.
One single 5 second shot of walkers could have fixed that, just shadows would have worked, just show they were there. Just because the characters don't know exactly what they are, the audience do, so if we saw it the reaction would be yeah, you were right to leave the food and leg it and it would make sense.
The not telling the fucking neighbours that some fucked up shit is going on, not a hint, nothing, then later just watch as they get eaten. That was just nonsensical and frustrating.
The main issue at the moment though is that its such a slow burn, they are promising much and showing nothing. Its constant moody music, ominous atmosphere, a little jump and nothing happens. Just fucking get on with it.
I have to admit the depiction of how it could go down is making sense. If you combined a deadly biological outbreak happening in the midst of the break down of social order, such as if it happened during all the Ferguson riots and just spread, suddenly the walkers are everywhere and its chaos. It works, but its really fucking slow and annoying.
I dunno, I'm a little cheesed off with the genre, with the horror genre as a whole really, I am sick to death of seeing cardboard cut out characters. Like whiney teenage girls obsessed with their boyfriends, for fucks sake, for once let the little c*nt go and see her boyfriend and live to regret it.
Bratty kids who never do as they are fucking told and constantly put themselves and everyone else in danger. I'd like to see kids who are fucking terrified and so do exactly what they are told, that don't want to get away from their parents to go and sulk. Kids who, like in real life, cling to their parents because they are scared and don't know what the fuck is going on.
