Starting the Walking Dead, First Impressions.

Well I finally gave in. I'm starting to watch "The Walking Dead", I've been extremely unmotivated to start this program. Now why is that you ask? Because this is just another one of the cookie cutter drama shows that I couldn't care less about. An uninspired show full of thirty-five minutes of fluff, with maybe a shot of quality heart-felt dialogue or action. This may be sufficient for most people who get their standards of what is entertaining from Twitter. But, I demand a higher quality product. Which is why I typically stick to Japanese anime. They are able to put out a much higher quality of a show because they often have only twelve to around thirty episodes (granted some great ones are around 40-65 episodes). Also, seeing as how the program has ran it's course I have heard quite a few bits of information about the show that now make it seem less special, the same goes for Breaking Bad. People never stopped talking about that show until they found the new "Best show I've ever seen!". So here we go, first Impressions of a show I have watched two episodes of.

   Walking Deads' first two episodes were slow to start and very uninspiring. Enter a cop, burned out vehicles everywhere, then shoots a little girl whom has had her face chewed off. This is followed by a rant by a seemingly stupid deputy of the main character. This mainly monologue filled with sexist remarks from some dumb hick seemed tired but purposeful. My first thought with that was "Oh, he is the bad guy that treats women bad. So he was put there for the female audience to get mad about, and then become excited when he gets killed a third of the way through the series..." turns out I wasn't actually all that wrong. Which is pretty self-evident when he is clearly raping the main characters wife, whom he was supposed to be friends with. Real classy Walking Dead, way to support the idea that all shows must have sex in them. And that the only purpose of the female characters is to be raped to create drama for the viewer, or make problems for the male characters to solve. Like when the female pointed the gun at the Sheriffs head and she didn't know the safety was on. Of course, there also had to be the gruff racist southerner or this show couldn't be complete. He will die soon after a heartfelt friendship forms with people of color, and he'll die saving them, probably. A pretty good part of the first episode was the Black guy and his son meeting our beloved sheriff, after knocking him out. The high point was when the black father couldn't shoot his wife. This was a great scene for many reasons. It made the audience ask itself "Could I do it? Would I have the guts to shoot my significant other?", it also allowed his character to show realistic emotion that truly spoke to the viewer.
I'm not overly impressed, but I'll attempt to keep watching.