Finished watching Season 2 of Walking Dead

Grade: C.

Allow me to explain something about an apocalyptic future.

The world as you know it has gone to pot; the number of walking dead easily outnumbers the living by a 10 - 1 margin or more, and it's just getting worse every second, minute, hour and day.  Living is a struggle, let alone finding any sleep at night when the walkers are most active.  Priorities, people.

You don't spin your wheels asking stupid questions like, "Is this the kind of world we want our children to grow up, in?"  You don't waste your time with the dilemma, "Is it okay to fall in love?"  No one should even think to demand of others, "either you're with us or you're against us."

That is infantile nonsense.

Season 2 was excrutiatingly slow, filled with too many trite confrontations, and far too many soliloquies.  Everyone's character became more annoying in Season 2.

To show you how dull Season 2 was, here's a list of character themes that should help guide you:

• Glenn needed assurance that love is a good thing;
• Dale became the king of moral soliloquies; 
• Shane and Rick went into overdrive on whose penis was bigger (and who had the weakest moral conscience); 
• Lori showed us she has no backbone of her own without a man (seriously, the writers purposely made her out to be dependent); 
• T-Dog was mostly transparent and about as useful as a can of beans (the writers treated him as a token black man -- very disappointing);
• Andrea became self-righteous;
• Daryl suffered from an epiphany that he was all on his own, except of course, he stuck around and might just be the most useful person in the group;
• Carol magically transformed overnight into a woman with a backbone;
• Carl is all over the map: didn't shed a tear when someone died; wants to be a killing machine like the adults; chickens out; finally commits to killing; much, much later cries about someone getting killed.

It's as if there were all new writers on board for Season 2 -- and true enough, after the fact, I checked and many of the writers were replaced.  Terrible.

Still, I liked the new characters introduced (and survived to the next season): Maggie, Beth and Hershel.  I just have one question: If Georgia is full of zombies every f'ing where you turn, why are you still staying in Georgia?

I think I'm being generous in giving Season 2 a C; I've never been so disappointed in a second season of any show that I thought was absolutely fabulous in its premier season.

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So let me tell you how things would end up in my world.

If we was stuck in the middle of the country, we'd be grabbing hybrid vehicles like the Ford C-Max, filling them up with supplies such as solar panels, acid batteries and especially swords, then hauling ass to the coast.  At the coast we'd search for the best, largest navigable ship that we could use to escape in a pinch, and use it as a home base, hopefully near one of those natural gas facilities.

We'd tie down ships two-deep so that we would limit points of contact to the land.  On the top deck, we'd seal the deck with plastic liner, fill it in with dirt, and use it as a growing field.  Those solar panels would be mounted along the mast, and would power a reverse-osmosis water filtration, among other things.

If need be, we could cut anchor on both ships and call it Splitsville and onto another port, or even drop anchor half a mile off the coast.

Once home base was established, we'd organize mass walking dead massacres using the same tactics native-Americans used to take down herds of buffalo, among others.  We'd then haul their carcasses to form a wall of stench on land about half a mile in diameter, and hand-tie some of them to a gated fence.

Pushing out sideways along the coast then inland, year by year the perimeter would slowly be expanded.

We'd survive and grow...unlike the schmucks in Season 2 who seem to suffer setback after setback, drama upon drama.