The Walking Dead

[packs]

My issue with this show is that there is a wealth of material to pull from when one world collapses and another has the opportunity to be built. However, this show is constantly about how one group of people are bad, so they leave, and then another group of people are bad too. Who cares?! Do something with your material. The world and society has crumbled. Can't we see a new and different world rise in its place? Or fall in its place? I already know people are bad. They're terrible in today's world. If your message is people will never change, that is a very dull observation.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by packs

My issue with this show is that there is a wealth of material to pull from when one world collapses and another has the opportunity to be built. However, this show is constantly about how one group of people are bad, so they leave, and then another group of people are bad too. Who cares?! Do something with your material. The world and society has crumbled. Can't we see a new and different world rise in its place? Or fall in its place? I already know people are bad. They're terrible in today's world. If your message is people will never change, that is a very dull observation.

Agree with all of this. It getting old and veering off into an extended scene of torture porn does not all of a sudden make it any fresher.

I've been telling people for years that Rick and his crew are the real bad guys in the show.

I chuckle to myself and imagine a universe in which everybody else is fine. They are building a new life for themselves, a new world for themselves........................until Rick's crew eventually shows up, and everything goes to sh*t.

[packs]

I don't know if they're the bad guys. But it is consistently dull to have the end result of them finding another settlement to be "this settlement is BAD!" Humans are awful at their basest level, sure. But what else? Why would I find that observation interesting when I live in a world dominated by hysteria news channels promoting scary violence?