The second season of AMC's critically acclaimed series The Walking Dead wrapped up for the year with last Sunday's mid-season finale, entitled "Pretty Much Dead Already". The series has taken a drastic turn from its first season, focusing more on character building rather than the grand, apocalyptic feel of the first. Many fans have attributed this to showrunner Frank Darabont stepping down from the series after the first season. It has also divided the fans of the series, with many leaving the show because of the "campiness" it has displayed. Though I have been disappointed by the second season thus far, I have decided I will stay with the series (at least until Daryl is killed off).
However, as a noob to the series (I started watching it during the first season marathon AMC played before the premiere, I like to think of myself as having a less biased mind toward the show. Although it hasn't been as good the first season, it is still better than most shows on television right now. I also have to attribute the degrading quality of the series to the absence of Darabont, who gave the show the epic scale that drew so many people to it, but also to the thing people don't like talking about: the budget cut AMC delivered to the series after the first season, a debilitating blow that took away the hordes of zombies we grew used to in the first season.
Also, the people need to stop calling them "Walkers" already. We all know they're zombies, you don't need to hide it from us.
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