I had high hopes for Season 2 of The Walking Dead, after previews hinted that it would be darker and more character-driven than its predecessor. But although the new episodes, set on an isolated farm of a misguided veterinarian and what’s left of his family, do focus more on Rick Grimes and his ragtag band of zombie apocalypse survivors, the script still hasn’t succeeded in making us care about anyone. The characters still feel like one-dimensional comic-book creations; they haven’t been lifted off the page yet. As a result, it’s too easy to predict how they’ll deal with their moral quandaries: Rick will do the right thing. Shane will do whatever it takes to survive. And Lori will struggle between those two extremes before ultimately choosing light over darkness. She did it earlier this season, when she considered letting her son, Carl, die of his gunshot wound rather than enduring life in a lonely, ravaged, dangerous world, and made a very similar — albeit more politically charged — decision last night. [Spoilers after the jump] … Read More