Quote:For everything they've impressed me with, they've let me down at the next turn.

 

I love the drug addict angle.  It drives the story well.  However, while I understand a family being protective of as son... it falls flat with me that they feel competent/capable/bold enough to conduct their own little CSI investigation of the drug den.  Quite a stretch.  Broke my personal threshold for "suspension of disbelief," as I didn't believe they would actually do that on their own, nor would many if any parents I know.

 

I could see the stepfather going as a way to try to understand what Nick was saying. It shows he believed Nick to a degree and I think since he can't be a father to his own kid, maybe he can try to help Nick. The mom..... I don't know. I'm not a maternal person so I would have gone out of curiosity since that's the kind of person I am. 


 

I also thought the mom's "got my flu shot" line was nice, but they could have gone deeper with that to make a stronger impact.  One that could be developed further into the coming hysteria over what could be causing the upcoming outbreak.  Rather than a glib one liner, they could have had a bigger scene where the nurse/doc was discussing the current strain they were vaccinating against, and how they are confident it will be more effective than those years past and why, etc, etc...

 

I agree. I think they're trying too hard to not try too hard. They don't want to overdo stuff so they leave things hanging. 


 

I was also suspect of how quickly the couple was to accept having to "murder" the "walker."  The pace of their escalation seemed rushed, and left me feel they were behaving more like outlaws than heroes.  I got the feeling their morality/drive was more about sheltering/enabling the son than doing what's right.  I would think that in that situation (in the universe where no one knows what's going on yet,) they would still be more interested in getting help for the "walker" than destroying it.

 

We may see the fall out of how they feel about what happened with the walker in the next episode. They were most likely in shock. And they were also protecting Nick from what he'd just done. An addict doesn't need a reason to use and he just went through some serious trauma so......