The Walking Dead Season 6 Discussion
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It probably has peaked/is peaking. The zombies are clearly getting more and more skeletal every season. And there's a reason the show's starting to push storylines into increasingly shorter time-frames.
But, yeah, watching a tv show about a zombie apocalypse at all pretty much requires that you accept the fact that the zombies aren't going to decompose at anywhere near the same rate as a normal human.
What would be the "lifespan" of a zombie, given the accelerated breakdown and decay of skin, organs, and bones, not to mention whatever remnants of brain tissue and nervous system that still allows them to see, hear, move, and walk upright? How could they last more than a year of being exposed to the elements, bacteria, and everything else in nature that turns dead meat into fertilizer?
Perhaps ASZ is functioning at a 20th century level and Hilltop at an 18th century level as far as their technology, however the complete breakdown of government and absence of law-and-order is what would make rebuilding so difficult. You can't go out and start rebuilding the local widget factory if you're having to deal with predatory redneck biker gangs and sociopathic warlords at every turn, hence my "dark ages" comment.
For another take on the problems of a post apocalyptic America, check out Jericho, which aired on CBS about 10 years ago, and is currently available on Netflix (and which ironically also featured Lennie James).
Perhaps ASZ is functioning at a 20th century level and Hilltop at an 18th century level as far as their technology, however the complete breakdown of government and absence of law-and-order is what would make rebuilding so difficult. You can't go out and start rebuilding the local widget factory if you're having to deal with predatory redneck biker gangs and sociopathic warlords at every turn, hence my "dark ages" comment.
For another take on the problems of a post apocalyptic America, check out Jericho, which aired on CBS about 10 years ago, and is currently available on Netflix (and which ironically also featured Lennie James).
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The series is all over the place about that. Kirkman is famously cowardly by running away from providing an explanation for the ZA plague and how it creates and maintains the ZA (I believe he did not like Darabont's great season one episode "TS-19" which added some sense to it all, when Kirkman could not).
It is clear some extraordinary reason caused the plague, so it would then be easy for audiences to accept that TWD's corpses do not operate and decompose as expected in reality. It is fantasy! Kirkman avoiding the details is his way of ducking imagined criticism about the "accuracy" of his explanation. Romero /John Russo never had a problem with "radiation from a Venus space probe," and the audience did not, either. They just accepted the horror of it all.
So, instead of Kirkman trying to protect himself (at the expense of the series), just follow Darabont's wise model and say the zombies are still operating for a reason.
It does not matter what the reason is, because it is just fantasy that needs some framework of realism to sell, like the Venus space probe was the realistic touch for NOTLD.
That's why Hershel's management of his farm was the perfect way to live and survive in the ZA, as there were no "do what you want" or dictatorial low lives living there. With minimal voyages out for supplies, they were well ordered and operating from a general moral code, which also made them sensitive to avoiding (i.e. seeking) as much trouble as possible. The only time they allowed any significant change to their model was taking in Rick's group, and that was a heated situation at best.
You keep saying this as if Kirkman is a politician hiding an affair. The truth is that it's his creation and he can focus on what he wants. If he says the cause of the plague is not the point of the comic/show, then it's not. Get over it.
Get over defending his avoidance of a creative solution offered by other zombie productions, which--by the way--did not get in the way of the central point.
What good does it do for you to keep bringing it up in this thread? No one here cares.
That has been a topic in every WD thread, discussed by many members, no matter how much you are troubled by that.
Yes, they respond everytime you bring it up and try to explain to you that it's not the point of the show. Somehow, you just don't get it.
A lie, since this has been a topic introduced by numerous members. Stop crying about that which you do not like...and for one who does not like it, you are keeping it alive by whining about it.
Pot, kettle, black.
Yawn.
Trevor is a Savior. Figures...
Who was beaten? 
Oh yeah, and Thomas Wayne threatened Martha Wayne.
Oh yeah, and Thomas Wayne threatened Martha Wayne.
"Last Day on Earth"--
We see just how much Carl & Enid care for each other, even after their ideological disagreement over zombie Deanna. Locking her in a closet might seem extreme, but he saw the potential horror of her facing the Saviors.
.Abraham talking babies with Sasha, along Eugene bonding seemed like way too obvious telegraphing for a bad outcome.
...along with Carl's "I'm not gonna let anyone die like that again."
Maggie's "I believe in you, Rick" was a nice moment. After several years, they have a strong sibling-like relationship.
Carol's reasoning--not being forced to kill to protect loves ones means she had to leave makes sense. However, her "you don't get it" does not apply to Morgan, considering how he's had to come back from great personal tragedy, becoming a psychotic killer to become someone who does not want abandon one of his newfound family--even after his conflicts with her. However, now that the duo have been rescued, as Jesus said a few episodes ago, their world is getting bigger.
The bad part of this episode was the repetition of how villains wrangle the heroes; as in the season 4 finale, "A," where the Termites shoot the heroes toward a desired location/situation, the Saviors do much of the same thing. Rick figures that out, but way too late. Its the kind of maneuver that a seasoned group should expect from any other organized groups--particularly predatory groups.
I will have to considered how dangerous Negan might be beyond this death--while ignoring the squealing Negan fanboys all over social media, who seem to get off on his comic-based sadism.
So, who is betting Michonne got the bat? The editing was deliberately mixing up the "bat" selection out of original order, but if the long standing theory that Rick & Carl will not die, and the producers will not kill Glenn thanks to the double death fake outs already used in this season, the only other game changing death would be Rick's newfound love.
Or.....sick, pregnant Maggie (no matter how much many think she's going to lead the Hilltop).
We see just how much Carl & Enid care for each other, even after their ideological disagreement over zombie Deanna. Locking her in a closet might seem extreme, but he saw the potential horror of her facing the Saviors.
.Abraham talking babies with Sasha, along Eugene bonding seemed like way too obvious telegraphing for a bad outcome.
...along with Carl's "I'm not gonna let anyone die like that again."
Maggie's "I believe in you, Rick" was a nice moment. After several years, they have a strong sibling-like relationship.
Carol's reasoning--not being forced to kill to protect loves ones means she had to leave makes sense. However, her "you don't get it" does not apply to Morgan, considering how he's had to come back from great personal tragedy, becoming a psychotic killer to become someone who does not want abandon one of his newfound family--even after his conflicts with her. However, now that the duo have been rescued, as Jesus said a few episodes ago, their world is getting bigger.
The bad part of this episode was the repetition of how villains wrangle the heroes; as in the season 4 finale, "A," where the Termites shoot the heroes toward a desired location/situation, the Saviors do much of the same thing. Rick figures that out, but way too late. Its the kind of maneuver that a seasoned group should expect from any other organized groups--particularly predatory groups.
I will have to considered how dangerous Negan might be beyond this death--while ignoring the squealing Negan fanboys all over social media, who seem to get off on his comic-based sadism.
So, who is betting Michonne got the bat? The editing was deliberately mixing up the "bat" selection out of original order, but if the long standing theory that Rick & Carl will not die, and the producers will not kill Glenn thanks to the double death fake outs already used in this season, the only other game changing death would be Rick's newfound love.
Or.....sick, pregnant Maggie (no matter how much many think she's going to lead the Hilltop).
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