The show is chock full of idiotic people or situations and that is rather unfortunate because it brings what would otherwise be a good show down bigtime! Sure some people would actually do dumb shiz but not ALL of the time! There is a way to make things happen that make sense and STILL get the desired outcome. I'll begin with the original "survivors". I understand the restlessness that they may feel being cooped up all day while being poked and prodded but YOU JUST SURVIVED A MYSTERIOUS SITUATION WHERE EVERYONE ELSE IS DEAD EXCEPT YOU! You have no idea what caused it or what happened or if you're infected. Why would you be so impatient to get back out and possibly spread something to your freinds and family when you don't have a damned clue if you're carrying something??? Pretty selfish attitude on the part of the survivors... Not to mention that weird crap is happening to them AND NONE OF THEM SEEK THE HELP OF A DOCTOR whatsoever... Except the rock god but it was too little to late - not that it mattered but at least it would have made sense instead of them just letting things pass!
Next, the CDC ignoring obvious evidence given by Eph and then calling the feds on him for dragging the pilots' body down to the basement. WHY would they just ignore the evidence and did anyone actually think to go and LOOK at the corpse??? The only thing that would make sense there is that the CDC boss already knows what is going on and is helping the situation.
Next, the 3 STUIPDEST situations in the entire show to date that almost want to make me stop watching.
1) The same r******* feds that agreed to follow Eph's lead are all in the car and notice a lunatic running in the street and trying to pull a woman out of her car. The one guy has the sense to do his job but the other idiot suggest that the assailant is a homeless person and that they stay out of the situation??? I about fell out of my seat on the level of idiocy that I just witnessed?! Forget the fact that they didn't know that it was a vampire, what about the WOMAN being dragged out of her f'ing car by a complete stranger? YOU ARE AN F'ING COP! DO YOUR G' DAMNED JOB!!! Both of those idiots earned a well deserved death for utter stupidity. Thing is, displaying that level of stupidity was totally uneccessary. They could have both simply did the job that they were supposed to do as COPS and STILL died in the attempt. A common sense approach with the same desired outcome! I can't understand why anyone would write something that r******* in the script?
2) The cops "suddenly" arriving out of nowhere to arrest the 2 hispanic men for what I assumed was attacking a "victim" or did they already have a warrant out for their arrest? If so, I don't recall it being mentioned so I have to assume that they somehow "saw" them attacking the "victim" - of which they didn't even bother to look at... COME ON MAN! LOOK at the body!!! You can't possibly arrest them for defending themselves against that! If you want to find an excuse to arrest them, say that they found out that they stole that suv and go after them for THAT!
3) And finally, that situation that this person mentioned about the cab driver. ANYBODY in that particular situation would have booked it! No question! This r******* cab driver stays put and then gets out of the car to start shoot one of the vampires only to get hit by the other... WHY put yourself in that kind of danger when all you have to do is DRIVE THE F AWAY!? Also, if you were going to get out and start shooting, why wouldn't you be prepared to fire more than 1 shot? He shoots the one and - LOOKS as the other comes on and overtakes him instead of taking another shot!?... What would have worked better here is the cab driver freaking out for a moment, long enough for one of the vamps to reach his window and having the probiscus hit him by penetrating the window. THEN having the passenger freak out, exit the car and run to the house meeting his end by spouse.
Good show. TERRIBLE writing/scripting in the common sense dept.
