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I don't I don't normally roll that way but sorry. Time to vent.

Ok, who wasn't excited for the season four premier of The Walking Dead last night. I'm sure there were a lot, but none that would read this blog. I have a fickle love/hate relationship with the show. I think all fans of the comic do because the comic is so great and the show borrows from that greatness but loves to waver. I have complained for a long time to all of my friends that watch how I hate that the writer will do some really amazing things and then do some completely moronic things for the sole purpose of creating drama. I get that it's a drama but come on! Don't have Lori tell Rick Shane is a threat to the group and needs to be removed only to have her get pissed at him when he admits he killed Shane. Stupid!

My second biggest pet peeve with the show was addressed last night. Finally, there was a bullet fired that didn't connect with a walker's head. The season two finally where there are driving around on the farm over bumps and Andrea is firing out a truck window and unloads an entire clip with a headshot on every bullet was ridiculous, especially when couple with how Rick could hit Martinez anywhere let alone the head from ten feet away with an assault rifle when the Governor led an assault on the prison.

Phew. Now that that's off my chest I can talk about the season four premier. I was expecting an OMG fast paced brutal episode and got none of it. At first I was really disappointed with how slow and dragged out it was, but then I learned to appreciate it because there does have to be some downtime and relative safety even in the zombie apocalypse. The episode did a good job of showing how things have improved and can get better. It showed that they continued to bring in people to join the prison, not just people from Woodbury. It also did a good job of showing what problems are still arising, while alluding to what happened over hiatus and what can be brought up throughout the season.

What I hated about the episode was just one thing. One very major thing. The raining zombie scene. WTF? The premise is that the walkers had been on the roof awhile with the crashed chopper and leaking oil or whatever it was to go along with unchecked weather damage. I understand in an apocalyptic suspension of disbelief world that could happen. I even get why the liquor shelf collapsed. The roof was leaking on the shelf causing it to erode and the pressure of setting the bottle back down on the shelf made the shelf give way. Totally plausible. I wouldn't buy the whole cabinet falling if Nathan Fillion hadn't said he watches videos of that stuff happening (yes I watched Talking Dead last night. Only because Nathan Fillion was on it and I'm a huge Browncoat and overall fan, although I wish I hadn't watched because executive producer Scott Gimple was a total unentertaining tool). However, I don't buy the walkers falling through the roof all at once premise. If the roof was all decayed and shit they would have been falling through the roof gradually. If it was the noise of the liquor cabinet that attracted them to the weak spot in the roof, then they would have all come down in the same spot. Instead, they came down all at the relative same time in different spots all across the roof, where they had been for who knows how long, which I don't see happening (and my friend who is an architect agrees).

The other thing that I didn't like was the ending. Patrick feeling sick and then dying and turning into a walker? Where did that come from. How did it happen to just him, and maybe just one pig. But, I understand that they left that as a crumb for everyone to chew over all week and maybe even the rest of the season. I was really excited about season four after the way then ended season three with the status of the Governor up in the air. You know he isn't dead but you don't know where he is or what he is doing. And they are bringing in up in what could be a Michonne story arc. I was hoping they may have him go away and then return as a villain in a later season, but I now don't think that is going to be the case. I guess I am just going to have to keep watching the show to figure it all out. I mean, I have put up with the random nonsensical BS this long. What's one more season of it after three already?