Life sucks after the Rising

After watching the latest episode it's fair to conclude that life after the Rising sucks.

Every way station along the way is filled with duplicitous humans, vampires or both. Or radiation. (Can't forget that one.) If someone pops up to tag along with their little group, they will be a) killers, b) weak cowards, c) conspiring with vamps, d) killed within a few days or 3) all of the above.

I'm torn on this show. I want to see what happens to the characters because I like some of them, but part of me is frustrated at the slow pace of the show and dwindling pool of characters.

It's slowly getting a little better, but someone really needs to tell the actors playing Julius and Dimitri that less is more in these roles. They should stop chewing the scenery and take it down a few notches.

Vanessa is a bad-ass super-powered fighter who's very blood and saliva (and probably every other bodily fluid) changes vamps back into humans and kills feral ones. Why isn't she owning that? I would be. Sure, I'd be looking for my daughter on the way to Denver, but I'd be honing my skills and biting every vampire I could get ahold of, especially the non-feral ones. I'd start making all those former vamps permanently immune. She bit that guy at Eden, so is he now immune from a vampire bite? Can her bite act like an immunization? I'd like to see them answer that one. If it is like an immunization, then she should bite every human she meets!

The Doc is a messed up character. She is selfish and fearful and a coward; when push comes to shove, she is not someone you want in the foxhole with you. Now that she can't be a vamp again, will she still align with the vamps? She is a villain, and a cowardly one at that.

I knew the killer just had to be Sam. When Sam told everyone in the hospital that the new group planned to execute them all after supposedly reading their lips, that seemed really off to me. The fact Sam didn't just have a mental break of some kind to begin killing after the Rising but had been a serial killer since he was a boy was unexpected. Yes, Sam was an evil guy, but slicing the tendons in the backs of his knees to leave him for vamps is cruel, even for him. I would have just shot him in the head and been done with it. Because they didn't do that they will now have to take him on in his vamp form and many more will likely die because of him.

Mohammad will be very unhappy when he eventually finds his sister Sheema, since she is now the pet of Rebecca and betrayed the human resistance. That will not be a happy family reunion.

I was sad to see Susan go. She was a good character and will be missed.

Flesh just kind of left the group to stay in Eden. Okay. But what was that tidbit Micah told everyone about Flesh confessing he'd fantasized about killing his family while he was still human? What they hell was that?