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> Walking dead seems to be tapering off fans, turning from less of a zombie show to more of a drama ( each episode is 95% talk, 5% zombies ). I'm sorry to dera
by dclowd9901 13y ago
> Walking dead seems to be tapering off fans, turning from less of a zombie show to more of a drama ( each episode is 95% talk, 5% zombies ).
I'm sorry to derail, but I am so sick of this being considered as a "problem" with the show. The show is about human beings facing their inevitable demise. Even the title "The Walking Dead" is a play on words, referring to the survivors, rather than the zombies themselves. The show, the novel are both dramas first, and zombie stories second, where the zombie story is simply a backdrop to the very human drama of coping with one's own death and the death of loved ones.
The show has gotten worse, but that's because the characters have gotten more bland and the scenarios have gotten more tepid. It has nothing to do with drama:zombie ratio. Would you criticize Breaking Bad because you don't see as much crack being made in more recent episodes? How fucking stupid.
If this is a major problem to you, then you don't get the show and probably shouldn't be watching it anyway. I'm sure Fox will cook up some nice, bland, predictable zombie-loaded crapfest for you in due time.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> Would you criticize Breaking Bad because you don't see as much crack being made in more recent episodes? That would be like criticizing The Walking Dead because you don't see as many vampires in recent episodes.
- ianstallings 13y agoDon't hold back, tell him how you really feel.
- Zimahl 13y agoWould you criticize Breaking Bad because you don't see as much crack being made in more recent episodes? How fucking stupid. It's not stupid at all. The meth on Breaking Bad is not the plot, the plot is cancer-stricken man is pulled into the seedy world of illegal drugs and how he participates. The plot of Walking Dead is survival in a zombie world. If you aren't going to focus on conflicts with zombies then they should've just set it in a post-apocalyptic world sans zombies.
- mbreese 13y agoZombie movies / shows are never about the zombies. They are about how the survivors navigate that world. They almost always play with the humanity aspects of it all. What does it take to be truly human? What happens when the zombies aren't the only bad guys? Etc... Most classic horror stories play with the line between human and monsters, and that is why the genre has survived as long as it has [ * ]. It's never about just the zombies. [ * ] Not counting slasher/gore movies
- jmduke 13y agoThe plot of Walking Dead is survival in a zombie world. The setting of Walking Dead is a world with zombies.
- res0nat0r 13y agoIf you read the comics you will know that The Walking Dead is much more about the surviving humans, their interactions, and a discourse about society than it is about zombies.
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