Why people insist on comparing The Walking Dead to any other form of zombie fiction.
The whole entire point of The Walking Dead (comics especially) has been what would happen outside of the hour and a half "OMG RUN! ZOMBIES!" thriller/horror film. And what would happen? A whole bunch of soap opera-survival-loss of humanity-mad max-post apocalyptic-manic behaviour. So that's what the comics have been and are, and that's what the show has been and is.
The Walking Dead is NOT a zombie kill show. If anything, its safer to call it a Post Apocalyptic drama that happens to have zombies.
You could, in-theory, tell the very similar stories based around a show where a new ice age dawns because a massive volcanic eruption. You could do one post nuclear bomb (although radiation makes that hard). Any form of "Well, there goes the world you knew, and it isnt coming back anytime soon." Type disaster.
The entire point of the Walking Dead, since its comic book inception, has been to focus on the humans and the social, psychological, and interpersonal effects of mass tragedy, dread, and survival of the (seemingly) fittest.
The fact people keep wanting it to be a hour and a half zombie movie every week is just proof people do not understand what it is supposed to be. It would be like watching Big Bang Theory every week and wishing it was a Neurotic Jew type sitcom based in New York featuring a whacky neighbor named Kramer. It'll always be disappointing, and its unrealistic of you to expect the show to be something that it isn't supposed to be.
I'm not saying you have to like The Walking Dead. Not in the slightest, but don't dislike it for being exactly what its source material is and what its always been. If you want a "Zombie thriller flick" every week, that's a different show.
Hell, the comics right now is basically setting a Game of Thrones type class between three groups seeking influence/control/dominance. The zombies in the comic are almost a non-factor for the last 40-issues or so.
I agree. I have no problem with the concept of TWD; it's supposed to be a drama with zombies as the backdrop. My problem is more that it's just a really shitty drama with boring, flat characters and shitty accents.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget the unrealistic plot lines - apparently designed just to make the characters suffer and make us feel sorry for them - that throw all the suspension of disbelief through the window.
ReplyDeleteRight now, for instance, they are living in a basically depopulated planet where the chances of a pandemic hapenning would be virtually zero due to the low population density. Nevertheless, out of the blue there is a new disease worse that the Spanish Flu or perhaps even the Black Death.
Seriously?