"The Walking Dead" - Does anybody else watch it?

Thanks for sharing. It had me irl.

 

There are reports that season 9 is Andrew Lincoln’s last season. That means they are killing off Rock Grimes, since I doubt they could recast him.

The show has really screwed the pooch, but other comebacks have happened.

Could this be what brings it back? My guess is it is the nail in the coffin.

 

I have yet to see the charm in Zombies, can anyone explain it to me?

 

zombies only serve to add tension through every episode...zombies are just a substitute for whatever end of civilization event that could occur, asteroid, pandemic etc and leave the survivors to battle with the real danger of a post apocalyptic world, other people...

 

Getting rid of Rick might be just the shot in the arm the series needs.

 

I dunno. I think it was over the minute they killed off Carl.

That's the day I stopped watching, and I've watched it since the pilot.

 

It's far more about human nature than it is zombies.

 

That's all any story is about in the end. Human nature is the warp and weft of ALL fiction, even science fiction. I just don't see the particular appeal of stories about survival after the rest of humanity turn into mindless eaters of all but the few remnants of the race there are.

It begs so many questions to begin with, Why don't the zombies just eat each other, surely what seem several thousand at the least aren't all getting by on the few uninfected humans left?

 

I've really never liked post-apocalyptic. About all of them have humanity reduced to just a few pitiful remnants. It makes the stories starkly simple and I guess that's the whole idea but it's totally unrealistic. Even killing off 6 billion people would still leave us a greater world population than we had in 1800 and I don't get the idea that the world looked empty then.

The only story I've seen that even begins to be realistic as a Post Apocalyptic scenario is Ghost in the Shell. The world has just been through 2 wars and refugees from those wars are the main problem of the story. But it takes place in an area (Japan) largely untouched by it and it makes clear that the modern world survives in most places and even prospers in some, as I think it would.

 

Could be, but Rick is the main character of the comic. He is kinda of the glue that holds the show together. It could fall over.

 

as with many tv and movies there is some requirement of "suspension of reality" to enjoy the show...I can pick apart almost all movies and tv programs due to implausible scenarios but that would ruin the entertainment factor...there's nothing wrong including a bit of fantasy in our lives...

 

Stephen King says that the phrase "suspension of disbelief" gives the wrong idea, leading one to believe that it must be a light balloon, easily held up and drifting lazily through the tale with little effort . He finds it like a great sphere of lead which takes all his strength and artistry to keep from crashing down on his story, crushing him and his characters beneath it's ponderous weight.

I don't mind fantasy at all. I just find this almost constant depiction of the post apocalypse as being a completely ruined world as being tiresome. It was interesting the first 10 or 100 times but could we do something else but watch doomsday preppers fight it out for a change

 

You can't find anything else to watch? The living are far more dangerous than the dead.

 

They can't just continue to do the same things every week (fighting violent despots). They can't find peace with whatever survivors they find - no drama. Seems like they're stuck and good despots are hard to find.

 

until the situation settled life in a post apocalyptic would be dangerous, you do you trust? total strangers? no ...dire situations would make everyone super cautious and until they feel safe their daily needs for shelter, food and security are met; every strange person or group would be viewed with suspicion...you only need to back a few hundred years when native american tribes guarded their territories from neighbouring tribes encroachment as a life and death situation, because it was...lose territory and you lose your food supply, in an apocalypse a small community that can barely feed itself is going to be understandably cautious in meeting others...

 

Lost was pretty much all planned out before they started it unlike this show.

I think the only part they didn't know was how to end it.

 

My point exactly, and this is extrapolated to the whole post apocalyptic genre. The last thing really original out of that whole ouevre was A Canticle for Leibowitz in 1960. Many good stories since mind you, but originality? Not a lot . All variations on a theme

One interesting concept I've heard recently is that we're IN a post apocalypse right now, our Great War being the REAL Great War, WWI. Anybody find that idea intriguing?

 

Where in bloody blue blazes do you get that idea? What planning? It was just one trope piled on top of another until the viewers caught on to the fact that there was no there there and the ratings started to reflect the fact that the one thing you can't do to your reader is let him know he's a reader. The ending was a pure betrayal as they had said early on in the series that they were NOT in purgatory. Worst waste of good writing on a shitty story I ever saw.

 

I watched the making of Lost with the lead writers after it went off the air.

They said the entire story was already scripted only that they didn't have an ending and it wasn't until season 2 that they knew they wouldn't be cancelled and could make the story.

But you can choose not to believe them if you like.

It was pretty interesting in fact, like the polar bears. The creators had added them into the story but didn't know what their purpose actually was supposed to be so the writers had to ignore it and pretend it didn't happen.

 

If you don't have an ending you don't have a story. That's one of the first things they teach in creative writing classes. Anybody can write a beginning and you just continue that to make the middle but the ending is where you tie it all together and that's the art.

And you never believe authors when they talk about their works. How would they know?

( btw The polar bears were the one thing I though was well integrated into the story)

 

The writers said they weren't, they had no idea what the polar bears were supposed to represent.

And I'm just telling you what they said so you can judge them all you want on that.

It was probably why it was a great story up until the ending.

 

I stopped watching a couple seasons ago. Sooner or later ilI go back and watch the 2 or 3 seasons I missed.
Yeah in many ways Rick is the show, I think the writers are slowly getting rid of everyone..The whole cast dies. Doesn't get any more apocalyptic than that. Lol

 

There was a really good show a while back called 'Resurrection'. It was clear during the second season that they had written themselves into a corner with no way out. They did the same with 'under The Dome'.
Walking Dead loosely follows the comic book of the same name and comic books aren't supposed to have endings.

 

Comic books generally don't have an end and there's some good writing in them. It's the ride - not the destination.

 

Watch the show every Sunday night with friends, but lately it’s starting to seem like a chore getting through many episodes.