Posted on 03/25/2024 8:29:33 AM PDT by RedMonqey
Does anyone still watch this TV series or the various spinoffs it spawned?
I suppose. But they starved to death after 28 days.
Except they aren’t. Romero’s Living Dead has NOTHING to do with occult. Heck he doesn’t even call them zombies, that’s a label popular culture put on it, he called them ghouls. Nobody is really sure why anybody linked the living dead movies to the voodoo thing, they have nothing to do with each other. But the word stuck and is now the name of the genre. Romero always saw them as stand-ins for whatever societal thing he was commenting on that year. In the first they’re just a threat that could be easily handled if people would pull together, which they then don’t.
I watched the first 5 or 6 seasons but got tired of it. And every time Rick showed up at a place that had fixed up a nice little safe secure shelter against the zombies, he would mess it all up and the zombies would destroy everything.
LOL, Rick was the best part of the show but he brought chaos, death and destruction to everything he touched.
If you want to live, avoid following Rick.
1. It is film experts that say Romero’s night of the living dead was what inpsired the author/writer behind the Walking Dead series.
2. A ghoul (from Arabic: غول, ghūl) is a demon-like being or monstrous humanoid, often associated with graveyards and the consumption of human flesh. A ghoul is far more ill mannered and foul than the commonly mistaken goblin. The concept originated in pre-Islamic Arabian religion. In other words, from the occult.
You don’t need film experts for that. Robert Kirkman flatout said his inspiration for the comic was Romero, he wanted a Romero story only longer, much much longer.
Yes flesh eating monsters from the grave. That’s not occult. You do recognize that both Christianity and Judaism are pre-Islamic Arabian religions right? NOT OCCULT.
You do rrecognize that Jadaism and Christianity contains warnings against dealing with the occult.
And as I’m pointing out, it’s NOT OCCULT.
It’s “DEAD”, Jim.
the key to TWD was the character interactions. Segmenting the characters into separate spinoffs dilutes the overall plotline quality.
In a zombie apocalypse the Tara character gaining weight was hard to reconcile. I do realize the actress playing the role was pregnant and post baby at the time of the shooting to account for this
I agree with everyone’s opinion.
It was a novel TV series but it quickly became a trope with settling in an area, meeting another group and another villain.
To me the highlight was Hershel and the farm.
The prison season was okay but when Hershel getting killed was a gut punch.
Then came in the obvious alphabet people which I started looking at my computer more than watching.
Frankly, the seasons in between this and Negan are a blur, well maybe the cannibal one alright but that and Carl eating a big can if pudding is is all I remember.
I liked Daryl and Meryl, they seemed like the only characters I’d believe to survive an zombie apocalypse.
Life was already sh_tty and they were already used to living in scrapes!
When the alphabet people came along I was waiting to see if they writers made him gay, you know because he has so many opportunities to get it in with Emily, Carol, etc.
Maybe they did, I haven’t watched the series nor any of the spinoffs in quite a few years.
Negan was a disappointment, it liked the actor who played The Comedian in the Watchmen movie.
But the writers just made him a thug who made lame jokes. A missed opportunity.
The Return of the Dead was another disappointment
Never believed this family could survive a Taylor Swift concert much less an zombie attack! Plus everyone if them were so unlikeable. They did represent a unban California family well.
Forgot which show had the wheel hair bound dude if the deaf girl but long by then it stopped being “must see TV”
Just another soap opera as another mentioned.
What really disappointed me was the near absence of the military, the one organization which who most likely survive,been if it’s ranks was decimated there’d be a core group to center around and fight back.
The series touched on it but couldn’t bring itself to admit the military would wipe them out in an long weekend.
Any how, that’s my opinion and the series should have ended long ago but the producers wanted to milk it dry.
Time to end it. Stab it in the head. It’s the only way.
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