Man that was dumb. The church stuff was all really boring and pointless. I guess Gabriel needed to make sure that the cannibals really were bad, but it ate up time that should have been spent elsewhere.
The only reason Beth's death was surprising was because of how stupid it was. She stabs her in the shoulder?! What the fuck did she think was going to happen? I get that they wanted the death to be a shock, but they did it in the most contrived way possible. It made all of the character development with her and Dawn seem really pointless. It's almost like they weren't sure what to do with their story-line so they just killed them both.
Also, what was the point of Bob? If they were just going to have him get killed off immediately with zero repercussion on the exchange, why even have him as a character? All he did was needlessly eat up screen time. Was the entire point of his character just to show that the black girl (can't remember her name right now) was really in an emotionally vulnerable state? No shit. She'd just lost her boyfriend.
So much pointless filler that never went anywhere.
Anyway, apart from the pointless filler and the mindbogglingly stupid death (seriously, I think it was dumber than Andrea's death), it was a fairly decent episode with a good amount of tension building.
