I watch TWD & FTWD but my friends questions me why?
What do you think of Rush’s comments? Not just about TWD.
“These young Millennials, they love television shows and movies depicting stress, posttraumatic stress disorder, trauma. The worse the better, the suffering. And the purpose of television these days, for them, is to demonstrate how to cope with all of this. And the reason that they enjoy this, I have concluded, is ‘cause that’s what their lives are today. I’m not saying all Millennials. I’m talking about these media-oriented critics, TV movie critics.
I don’t know how representative of the entire generation it is, but it’s gotta be pretty sizable. The more trauma, the more suffering, the greater they think the TV show or the movie is, because that’s what their lives are now: Trauma and suffering and how to cope. And a great TV show to them is one that demonstrates how to cope with all this trauma and suffering.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/07/22/the_poisoning_of_the_millennial_mind
Hey, I'm a retired guy and just love the show. I think TWD has all age demographics watching it.
In “Dune: The God Emperor”, he created a period of total peace, prosperity, cultural uniformity. The people reacted with the most popular theater as the drama, the most popular song the epic, the dances wild and erratic.
In an utterly comfortable universe, people longed for the chaotic wilderness in which they evolved and release of instincts honed for such.
It is why people in civilized societies have adventure sports, eco-tourism and roller coasters. Why horror shows and court dramas are so popular in a historically safe society (murder rate a fraction of that a century and millennium ago, Muslim world excepted).
We vaguely remember the thrilling feeling of running free, forgetting it was for our lives from lions, tigers and bears, so we invent safely scary things to trigger the emotions and reflexes.
It’s because they’re realistic. The violence has consequences, decisions have consequences, consequences have consequences. That’s how life works. Nobody is being poisoned, if anything people are EXTRACTING the poison of sanitized unrealistic story telling. It’s reflective of a people that have finally started looking to what comes next in all things. We now pay attention to what happens in a war zone AFTER the parades, and we know it ain’t pretty, and we know that if it’s handled poorly it’s just setting the table for the next war. And we want story telling that’s reflective of this new understanding, we want story telling that recognizes that just because the hero shot the bad guy doesn’t mean they live happily ever after. Happily ever after is a lie, and now we recognize it as bad storytelling.