I get it, TWD and FTWD writers all assume their audiences have very short attention spans.
"Dead in the water" is a great example of this. Simply put, why was everyone turning so quickly?
I don't know when it changed, but somewhere around season 7-8 of TWD, and around season 5 in FTWD, walkers started turning more quickly. Instead of a change that took 1-2 days after death, or after a bite, suddenly shortened drastically to hours, or minutes in some cases
My assumption for continuity sake was that as the virus evolved over time, it turned the dead faster.
This "short" or whatever you want to call it throws all that convention out the window. Why were these initial outbreak zombies turning in minutes?
For the sake of the story and direction itself, I also found it hard to believe over 100 navy soldiers would so easily succumb to zombie attack. "Noooo...zombie slowly approaching...should I move? Do anything to avoid the attack? Fight back even? Nah!" TWD / FTWD always paints every soldier as incredibly incompetent in every series, completely incapable of defending themselves from slow-moving attackers.
Bottom line, these directors are just so sloppy, all the time, and this episode broke no new ground, it goes exactly like you expected it would.
However, as a plus, I will say I'm a big fan of Nick Stahl's acting, including in this. I wish he was in more things.
