Reverse_Dragon is offline Reverse_Dragon Post #41  January 17,2012, 6:01pm
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Plot Summary for every season of The Walking Dead

1. Flee zombies - 'Ack... run!'
2. Meet new friends. - 'Hello friends!'
3. Settle somewhere aparently safe. - 'Phew, that's better!'
4. Get attacked. - 'Oh yeah... there are zombies!'
5. Return to step 1.
 
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Why the sudden popularity of Zombie books/movies/television?

I think zombies today spark a horrible feeling of correspondence in many of us. We see mindless creatures of pure appetite, staggering through the apocalypse, and we recognize ourselves. We can’t turn away. And I think that this is a slightly different motivation than zombie audiences have had in recent history—at least, it’s a development of a particular strain of zombie rhetoric that’s worth noting. You see, ours are not evil zombies, not zombies called forth by some ancient spell (think H.P. Lovecraft, the book of Revelation, The Evil Dead, plus all manner of horror from Hellraiser to Amityville). For the most part, our zombies are not walking the earth because of some plotline that’s rooted in religion. More or less, our zombies are environmental—tree-hugger zombies, if you will. Our dead rise because of imbalances in our relationship with nature, usually leading to the development of some kind of super-virus that annihilates us but not before providing a short interval of zombie spectacle for our viewing pleasure.


These cautionary zombies come out of a Faustian tradition, where humanity is punished for its greed and hubris. For obvious reasons, contemporary audiences are particularly vulnerable to this kind of pathos. We turn out in glassy-eyed droves for movies that reveal how Mother Earth will pimp-slap us into oblivion. A quick glance at our end-of-summer blockbusters reveals the enduring power of this premise: see Contagion (bird flu), or Rise of the Planet of the Apes (super-cheesy research-science blunder leading to Ape, rather than Zombie, apocalypse).

It’s worth noting that the slobbering flesh-eaters in the 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead, which contemporary artists often cite as a major zombie influence, were brought to life by nuclear radiation. And there’s a whole catalog of nuclear monster fear culture, which we’ve largely gotten over. Sure, TV shows and political candidates can still capitalize on our fear of the dirty bomb, but that’s a blip on the radar screen compared to the massive nuclear hysteria of the 1980s. So, take heart! Maybe our current zombie obsession isn’t really a symptom of any serious environmental crisis. Like a little case of hives, it’s a surface manifestation of a psychic trauma that will eventually pass, just like the nuclear fear, for the most part, passed. Twenty years from now, our zombies will be manifestations of some other cultural fear... I don't know... fear of gay marriage, say. And all our zombies will be gay, and married, and the family values types will say, "see--look what happens," until eventually we get past that fear, too.
 
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The Dead are Walking again! ... new season starts today ...
 
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The Dead are Walking again! ... new season starts today ...
I can't wait to see if they're gay!
 
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harnomygirl wrote :
I can't wait to see if they're gay!
literally LOL!

Well I guess about 10% of the W.D.'s are gay, right? Do you think they should have to only eat gay people? Or maybe WDs don't have sexuality. Yes, that's probably the case. I mean, who'd want to!!!
 
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Yikes... thanks for the mental image Sass.

Anyone have a theory on what is going on with Darrell? It looks like he is starting to seriously lose it. I think maybe he had his entire sense of self worth tied up with saving Sophia, and now that he knows she's gone, he's starting to slip back into his self-imposed 'loser' role. Think Carol will be able to pull him out of it?
 
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It looks like they've both given up. Rick is getting harder, and his wife is starting to admire the other guy. No one is gay, but two men joked about the possibility before being shot.
 
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Darrell will come out of it. He needs to become part of the Triumverate currently ruling the group: rick, hershel, and shane. And he will. Carol will probably help.

Why is the group ruled by all men?

Maybe Rick's wife is history?

I really like the last scene in the bar in town where the 2 new guys showed up, and Rick assessed them in 5 minutes and decided they were too big a risk to take on. It was a valid shoot since the new guy went for the gun first, and Rick's a cop; he'd have been exonerated for the killing when there was a society. But still ... 5 minutes? that's worse than speed dating, pressure to make a good impression. lol
 
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Sassafras54 wrote :
Darrell will come out of it. He needs to become part of the Triumverate currently ruling the group: rick, hershel, and shane. And he will. Carol will probably help.

Why is the group ruled by all men?

Maybe Rick's wife is history?
She told everyone where to dig the graves and they obeyed. I'm pretty sure that was supposed to be significant. I thought Rick was history until he shot the interlopers. Everyone is getting colder.


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I really like the last scene in the bar in town where the 2 new guys showed up, and Rick assessed them in 5 minutes and decided they were too big a risk to take on. It was a valid shoot since the new guy went for the gun first, and Rick's a cop; he'd have been exonerated for the killing when there was a society. But still ... 5 minutes? that's worse than speed dating, pressure to make a good impression. lol
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Ah, I did not pick up on the grave-locations issue. Good catch.

Rick also took the initiative in "doing what must be done" when he shot the Sofia zombie. Everyone else just stood around.

Everyone likes a decisive man. LOL!
 
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