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Posted on 09/22/2015 6:57:26 AM PDT by Rummyfan
The most political show on television today involves shambling ghouls that feed on human flesh and the meat puppets who try to avoid being feasted upon. “Fear the Walking Dead,” the “Walking Dead” spin-off set at the beginning of the zombie outbreak, offers us a view of the liberal, sensitive type of people who put Obama into office and – probably inadvertently – demonstrates the utter moral and intellectual bankruptcy of everything they believe in.
Modern liberalism is an unfortunate byproduct of civilization. The fact that our lives are not largely devoted to hunting and gathering food and fighting off marauders who would rape, enslave, and/or kill us, allows a large segment of our society to forget that this is the natural state of man. You didn’t have liberals in the Dark Ages because a liberal would last about ten seconds, expiring with a spear through his guts after telling the local warlord that he disapproved “of this patriarchal, phallocentric, cisnormative power structure.”
Now, of course a substantial number of Americans pay tribute to humanity’s past by understanding human nature and often by preparing to confront the forces of chaos. These people are conservatives. We conservatives expect problems, and expect that we will have to solve them ourselves. We generally know how to hunt, to gather food, and we have guns and know how to use them. And we understand that society always – always – teeters on the edge of falling apart.
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We see that now in our big cities. Image when the power goes out.
Yeah, the Zombies in TWD are just the McGuffin to keep the plot moving forward. That's all.
FTWD ... is completely different from its predecessor, which may be why people don't like it. TWD is 100% character driven. If you like the characters in TWD, then you probably like the series.
Other zombie movies are mostly Chase-Chase-Chase, with some naked hotties, blood, and scares thrown in for good measure.
FTWD has mostly characters that you hate ... The show is about what's happening around them, and how they react to it, rather than the characters themselves.
Interesting, to me at least. Watching one writer's take on "How The World Ends". They get it right, I think, mostly. It happens pretty much overnight, most people are in total denial, those who know what's going on are shouted down, and people rally towards whoever stands up and says that they're in charge. Fairly realistic, I think.
Hobbit movies are the only ones I’ve sat for that approached 3 hours, not great, but entertaining...not gonna watch some commie love story for that long.
It’s funny to read the IMDB “reviews”...many are quite “glowing”, dripping with glamtastic comments and statements...tells me about all I need to know and explains why Beatty wouldn’t talk about the film. Wasn’t he in that Ixtar or some such flop?
Nice try though! ;^)
I can live with a few plot holes if the show is otherwise entertaining. This one isn't. I could even live with the slow start if they were using it to develop characters and set up later events, but they aren't even doing that. Other than the junkie we know nothing about what motivates and drives these characters. They are just bland cookie cutter copies of characters which could be in any network sit-com or drama.
Ishtar, IIRC....with Dustin Hoffman....I guess neither one of them wants to talk about that one! :0)
I know it is a different universe than the original WD; but, for me to become attached to a show, I really do need a character that I like, or, at least, find interesting. So far, not so much.
That’s right, she didn’t...there was no hyperventilating nor pearl clutching, LOL.
I want to see the neighborhood overrun with walkers.
Lol. Initially, me two. I then started watching again mid season and got hooked. I had to go back and watch all the earlier ones.
the hispanic barbers daughter is dating the white soldier.
the white daughter is dating the black boy
the white mom is dating the hispanic divorced dad
the whole thing just seems implausible. All we need now is the sodomite inserted into the show to check all the boxes.
I agree. Fighting over laundry chores and the whole Rick/Shane/Lori love triangle almost killed it.
I had the fortune of only discovering TWD a few months ago and binging it on Netflix. Season 3 was where the series really found its stride and picked up the pace. It's been the best show currently on TV ever since.
I nearly stopped watching when they were at the prison. One of two more episodes there and they would have lost me.
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Then you missed the part where Ruben’s character says “The gun doesn’t care how you feel.”
Great line.
For the record, the character of Travis Manawa is Maori, as is the actor who portrays him.
It’s building...can be seen when the military are on patrol while the woman was outside the wire...if one was watching the scenery closely, it can be seen that any who were considered a “threat to security”, regardless of infection status, were dealt with by extreme prejudice.
what is maori?
Well, it is the left coast.
The military should cut their losses, pull out and regroup in Texas.
Heh!
There's an argument to be made that welfare, EBT, Obamaphones, free internet and all the other handouts is the price we pay to keep the jobless inner city pacified (or at the very least, less violent than they'd be without these things).
Yep. Shut the power off and things are going to get very ugly, very fast, as Katrina was but a glimpse of.
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