Personally I think the new writers messed it up and created a hole that they will have a hard time getting out of.

-They are too slow to do anything. First episode of this season, awesome. Had great pacing, was really edge of your seat....then they ruined it by repeating it 6 times. They took 6 episodes (half a season) looking for a little girl, didn't Rick spend 1 or 2 episodes in the first season finding his wife? First writers had so much better pacing.

-They make you care/hate the characters too much. In the first season they developed the characters just enough and then killed them, or had them disapear. This season who all hates Andrea? (raises hand) they are making us hate Shane too, which isn't right. In the first season we cared just enough to where any person dying at all we were hit hard emotionally.

They are at the point where we care too much. I'm BIG fan (EVERYONE else too) of Daryl. You kill off characters like that, we start to lose interest or get angry, you start missing too much. yet at the same time with that motive you know they won't be going anywhere unless they start making us hate him out of no where.

-personally I think they should stay on track with the comics, get through it, and start making their own stories. They already kind of do, but most of the major plotlines are the same.

-lastly, to this day we still don't have any answers from season 1. They talked about them in the first episode and then stopped....why?

WWWEEELLLLL, not all people might die as in the comic book. Remember the little girl. She is still alive and kicking in the comic book and for some reason they decided to kill her off in the series.

The Shane turning into a zombie doesn't make sense at all in the context of the situation laid out here. He would have had to been bit at some point and nothing in here makes reference to something like that happening. We all know Shane is going to die will just wait and watch to see the details.