The Walking Dead Spoiler Bomb:

“Personally, I would much rather face herds of walkers, or a bunch of incompetents from Woodbury, than be a farmer in northern England facing a bunch of Vikings.”

You touch on the nub of it there, perhaps. Most civilized people are utterly incompent when it comes to basic survival skills. We’ve seen only a few—Daryl, Merle, Michonne, maybe Shane when he wasn’t being stupid—who’ve had the right mindset. Morgan seemed to have somewhat of a handle on it in spite of mental problems. Rick’s kid seems to be learning. The rest are too stuck in the past.

Then again, we only get to see a tiny sliver of the new zombie world. Maybe there are gangs doing much better.

Speaking of modern incompetence, an old book called “Castaway” by James Gould Cozzens popped into my head. It’s a updated Robinson Crusoe plot, wherein a man holes himself up in a department store amidst some sort of disaster. Despite having everything he could possibly need at hand and there only appearing to be one other person in the building, he struggles considerably. It ends up being one of those “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” stories. But in the meantime the character demonstrates about all you can expect from regular people cut off from modern civilization.

You would think they would use technology, which hasn’t gone away despite the ‘new conditions’, to lure the zombies away from where the survivors want to live (like back at the farm). A loud speaker or any audio device blasting music or sound should draw them all to one area and away from where the survivors choose to hang out. But nooooo. Too logical.

When the zombies were migrating, I thought it would come out eventually that the government, via helicopters, was drawing or herding them with sound waves or something. Guess not.

Oh well.....the show is well written and well performed....and if you can get past the “zombie” aspect and the blood and gore part...it is probably one of the best shows on tv at this time (not saying much).

Substitute the zombie bs with a more-likely plague or post-apocalypse scenario, and you have a real-life survival drama. Something that everyone in America can relate to re: our worst fears coming true.

The Walking Dead proves that the entertainment industry CAN produce a product that is good, gripping and worth watching....if and when they want to. Too bad that most of the time they apparently don’t want to.

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