PurplePastry

I'm loving the sheer ridiculousness of this show. It's the perfect escape after a long week of work and it has loads of the one thing always missing for me from TWD, which is consistent even excessive zombie killing. (TWD nails it some episodes, but then it seems like we get bogged down in human drama and go numerous episodes without any good zombie battles.) And I knew I was truly invested in seeing this through by how loudly and aggressively I cheered when the red haired girl's awesome bat weapon got returned to her via explosion. I was seriously mourning her loss of that weapon through the whole second half of the episode.

I could have watched an entire episode about Nick, Cece & Coach being high. Either in the apartment or at the picnic. I loved when Nick was rambling on in the apartment and Cece was cracking up behind him. I wonder if that was Hannah Simone just having a hard time keeping it together cause Jake Johnson is hysterical. This show is back to all the things I loved in the beginning without all the relationship drama now. It's great just to see them being friends and idiots and I really love that Nick and Cece have more shenanigans together cause I think they work great together.

I just can't buy for one second that killing Shay was the best choice for repercussions through the characters. That should totally have been Casey if that's the impact they were truly going for. It would have been a huge blow for Severide. It would have not only been huge for Dawson, but then she could have stayed on as a firefighter at 51 knowing she's only there cause Casey died. And they could have promoted Herrman to Lt and he would have had a lot to deal with knowing he's in Casey's spot just because he died. Plus it also would have allowed them to bring back Rafferty (assuming the actress was available), someone that many of the fans really enjoyed, to take the other Paramedic spot with Shay. Maybe some people out there still enjoy watching shows compromised almost exclusively of straight, white male characters, but I'm not one of them. This show just went from "appointment" Tv for me to "maybe I'll get around to it over the weekend" Tv. Catastrophically poor decision, imo.