Yeah, it was pretty fucking good. It's been a while since a TV show could get my heart pounding like that.
There were some down moments, mostly for dramatic effect, to cut up the suspense.
Axel hitting on the single women was mildly amusing, if not simultaneously creepy.
One major nitpick was the gunfight at the bus wall. All those rounds wasted and there isn't a bloodbath!? Yea, it's smoky, but most of those guys were firing automatic weapons. Daryl and Merle were both holding full-auto weapons and didn't hit squat. Those guys are THE best shots on the show. How is it that they both went through multiple magazines, pulling a spray-n-pray, and not hit one guy? Were they trying to miss a lot because they both knew their brothers were on the opposite sides?
Adrea had Oscar dead to rights with a 9mm at about 50'. She's a good shot, too. She couldn't manage to hit a big ol' black dude moving slowly, at full-profile.
It took some random moron with a shotgun to finally shoot the biggest guy after he did the classic action/horror movie mistake and stood on the bus in the middle of a gunfight. I was thinking "yep, time for someone to get shot!" Sure enough, Terminator-style some nobody with a 12ga puts one in Oscar's gut.
I had to look this up as to why Rick paused after shooting Oscar's killer, but apparently he had a hallucination of Shane? Wut?
These people are supposedly the most badass people in the zombiverse; and a gunfight with automatic weapons at pretty close range nets a total of maybe five deaths? One for the good guys, four-ish for the bad guys. It's an even badguy:goodguy ratio, but that was just terrible.
Suspenseful, but terrible.
Seriously, though, a zombie bone shiv? Glenn keeps finding new and improved ways to be a hardcore motherfucker. Think about it for a second. You get stabbed anywhere with that bone, and you're gonna turn. That's like walking around with a poisoned knife. Only it's made of a bone that you ripped out of some dead zombie you killed in a brass-balls grudgematch.