Norman Reedus: 'No Ego' On 'Walking Dead' Set.

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[IronJack]

True, you have to keep the dramatic tension alive. But if you don’t do it organically, it starts to seem artificial and contrived, a lot like what’s happening to the show now. I mean seriously ... a whole episode about Rick trapped under a bed?

[catnipman]

“Haven’t seen as much this season’s second half but last’s years was glaring.... “

Nothing’s changed. Landscaping is all neat as a pin. It’s a very low budget series and they can’t afford to do anything other than film on current locations without much ado.

In reality, should a year and a half of complete neglect occur in Georgia, ALL flora would be riotously out of control everywhere, including landscaping, fields, and the tree cover around highways and roads. Everything would be “growed up” as they tend to say in rural Georgia. Interiors would also be massively dust-coated, but never are either.

A good horror story or flick requires complete adherence to all natural laws, with the exception of the one supernatural issue at hand. Such a real universe makes you suspend disbelief in only a single issue. The first few Steven King books adhered to that principal, as did the Twilight Zone, and therefore made good fiction.

When EVERYTHING in the fictional world is obviously as phony as a three dollar bill, including ridiculous behavior by the people, why really all you can do is laugh like hell or scream at the TV, “You idiots!”. Or both. Watching Walking Dead is a lot picking the compulsive behavior of picking at a scab that’s not quite ready to come off.

[catnipman]

“Also Bulldozers run on fuel, which also would be hard to scavenge...”

And yet no one ever seems to struggle very much to keep their vehicles fueled, and the bad guys always seem to have an unlimited supply of ammo. Plus the liquor shelves in the stores are always full: liquor would have been the first thing to go.

[RedMonqey]

...and the bad guys always seem to have an unlimited supply of ammo.

Don't think it would be too much of a stretch that bad guys would have guns BEFORE SHTF and more willing to USE them to acquire what they wanted while the SHEEP population, i.e. Suburbanites, huddled in their homes waiting for the government to come save the day.

Preppers, on the other hand, would sit back and wait it out.

A liqueur run would be the last thing a panicked population would grab(antibiotics yes)when relatives and friends are falling ill.

For survivors, getting "blasted off yer arse" drunk isn't a sound survivor stratagem.

Hence, the full shelves.....

[RedMonqey]

ALL flora would be riotously out of control everywhere

The Kudzu alone would make Georgia(and much of the South)into a Jungle!!! HaHa!!

Agreed, low budgets, but it's fun to point out the inconsistencies....

[catnipman]

“Don’t think it would be too much of a stretch that bad guys would have guns BEFORE SHTF and more willing to USE them to acquire what they wanted while the SHEEP population, i.e. Suburbanites, huddled in their homes waiting for the government to come save the day. “

You forget this is Georgia. Every other house is gonna have multiple firearms and hundreds of rounds of ammo, and every tenth house is gonna have thousands. If the food is still in a house, the ammo still is too. Everybody was dead in the first 60 days. There’s no way the billions of rounds of ammo stored all over the U.S. in millions of places got all shot up.

[VRW Conspirator]

Then build walker traps, 100x100 D-9 dug holes and bait them with chickens?

Bacon

[RedMonqey]

If the food is still in a house, the ammo still is too.....There’s no way the billions of rounds of ammo stored all over the U.S. in millions of places got all shot up......

Maybe...but considering most of the 300 million population have been "zombiefyed" and the fact the most experienced shooters, professional LEO, military, and avid sportsmen are trained to shoot at "center mass", many of these rounds were emptied into zombie bodies to no avail.

Especially when "panic fire" sets in.

Same with your average gun owner who may only have a box or two of ammo per gun type which again, largely wasted until they learned to aim for the head, and even then it has to be "center mass"(no glancing blows)

Hence, they run out of ammo and get overrun.

There maybe a few warehouses at obscure government agencies with ammo left but they would be deep in "zombie occupied territory".

Of course one could, if they had the skill, to go "Viet Cong" and raid Army, Navy, Air Force bases where one could find plenty of unused ordinance such as iron bombs, missiles, etc to make smaller explosives to hurl at the walkers...