The Walking Dead: 5 Things Self Help Did Right (And 5 It Didn't)
The Bad:
5. Flipping Cars
Not that the episode was totally perfect. For one thing, it continued some of the writers more lazy fall backs, including the apparent inability for anybody in The Walking Dead to drive a car properly. Using transportation as a way to both move the story (and the characters, more literally) forward, whilst also providing an obstacle, makes sense in a zombie apocalypse: petrol is limited, so theres always the chance theyll be stranded in the middle of nowhere without fuel; walkers are slow, but enough of them can overrun even a tank; clogged up highways are an issue. Those are all perfectly fine tropes to reuse across five seasons. You cant really blame them for returning to those old faithfuls. What is absolutely laughable is the amount of times somebody takes their eyes off the road for a second and their vehicle goes through a spectacular tumble, usually after hitting another (parked) car. Loris in the second season was most ridiculous since, like this one, it had absolutely no consequences. She was banged up a bit. The fact that Self Help's crash was almost shot-for-shot the same as Loris crash was unintentionally hilarious.
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