a bunch of retarded people dying

Yeah, I am definitely not going to be back for season 5. The writing has become downright cringeworthy.

I regret sticking with the show for as long as I did. I can't think of a single redeeming thing about this season.

Furthermore, when June said they should keep hydrated, but discovered all the seals on the bottles were broken (something no one has noticed when making the coffee, I guess, and besides there were more bottles still sealed in plastic underneath the ones on top, I think, but whatever), why couldn't they keep hydrated by drinking tap water?

And as for the tanker: when they first showed the bullet holes, I thought the characters would think "great, now we can finally fill up". Instead they just went inside to die. [facepalm] Didn't even try to drink the pouring liquid.

Just so idiotic on so many levels - I am really offended that the writers think this little of the audience. Or perhaps the writers are really just this level of bad, but in that case I am offended that the producers stand by the show's current quality.

While I agree with you guys 99%, to be fair, they didn't know what they had been poisoned with until Morgan got in walkie range and was able to tell them. At that point, June knew what the proper antidote would be.

That said, I was blown away by how stupid everything else was, especially the giving up on the truck because of a couple of bullet holes, which in all actuality have now given you access to what you needed lol. Ridiculous. Strand and Luci just stared at it pouring out of the truck, as if they didn't have the strength to get up and put the can under it. Yet, in the next scene, we see that they apparently had the strength to get back up and come in to die with the rest of the group.

And like you, ex, I would have thought that enough anti-freeze to poison someone would be detectable. I could be wrong on this. Not a medical professional.

As for the actors' discontent: honestly I just couldn't bring myself to watch Talking Dead after such an embarrassment of an episode, but I knew when Frank Dillane left that it was because he didn't want to be a part of this sh*tshow anymore. I think Kim Dickens was just more reserved about it.

Lenny James's position is more precarious because he only became a recurring character because of the fans, and nobody knows him outside of this show.

yeah the whole goal to get outside to the truck was a waste of time and dumb if it was just gonna result in them failing and crawling back inside to die. Not to mention that they had what they needed right there infront of them but because it was pouring out of a few bullet holes they acted as if it was ruined and undrinkable.

What was stopping them from going over there and holding their mouths open underneath it while it was pouring out? or as others have said just filled up some jugs by holding them underneath it while it was pouring out? Cause when it cut to them back inside saying they couldn't get it i was confused as hell, this was without a doubt one of the dumbest worst bits of writing i've seen on this show.

Yeah, I was sitting there, looking at my TV in disbelief. First of all, they just happen to have a container full of exactly what they need to use as an antidote...Much like the ladder truck last? episode. Then they shoot it to shit and just watch it pour out. I very much doubt those bullets punctured the lowest point of the tanker as the machine guns were strafing. I'd imagine there was still hundreds of litres left even after it finished draining from the holes.

It should have ended with Morgan dying from his wound getting infected. Then everyone else dying from organ failure or whatever happens when you ingest antifreeze.

New season, new people and hope they don't fuck it up again. Or follow up with what Daniels doing.

Yup. These people are terrible at the zombie apocalypse. They have no right to be surviving considering their piss poor decision making skills. I would have a zero tolerance approach to fuckery and dropped her at the earliest opportunity after discovering she was a nutter trying to kill people.