Post by Ripley on Sept 21, 2015 14:24:34 GMT -5
"...It’s really difficult to watch AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead. While the new series gives us an interesting view of the ensuing chaos the beginning of a zombie apocalypse might bring, because we already know about the walkers, it’s nearly impossible to look at things from its characters’ perspectives. Does our foreknowledge give us an unreasonable advantage, or are we simply smarter than Maddie, Travis, Alicia — most of the characters we’ve met thus far? Even if you’d never read about zombies, wouldn’t the appearance of the walkers alarm you enough not to approach them?
That’s the crux of a mild disagreement between myself and the mister each week so far, one I’m pretty sure I’m winning, but hey — maybe you can help us settle it. I’m of the opinion that most people could not be as astoundingly dumb as this particular group. I feel like if I saw someone shot over and over, still rising up after falling down dead a time or two, I wouldn’t attempt to reason with that (or any similarly oddly-behaving) individual. If someone did nothing but growl, chase and grab at me, eyes glazed over — bloody face/mouth or not — I’d have no interest in trying to reach that “person,” regardless of whether she watched my kids when they were little. You see the things that Maddie, Nick, Travis and Alicia have been witness to, know you should get out of town because something is having a bizarre effect on people, then JUST GET THE HELL OUT OF TOWN. LET SOMEONE ELSE TRY TO REASON WITH THE ZOMBIES SICK PEOPLE. The mister keeps reminding me my reactions are because I already know what I know; the Fear characters have no idea what (who) they’re dealing with. But, I maintain there are enough warning signs to know there are certain people who shouldn’t be approached.
It did pop into my brain while watching last night that The Walking Dead original flavor had some such incidents (Herschel, Andrea, to name a couple), but even though they were each dealing with immediate family members and major emotional trauma, they at least had the sense to keep their zombified relatives at more than arm’s length. Nearly every episode so far, a Fear character has been — or almost been — overtaken because of his/her impossibly foolish disbelief at what their own eyes were seeing; I don’t know if it’s my mommy instinct or what, but if I’d seen one of the early walkers approaching, I’d be heading in the opposite direction. Quickly. Come on, people — you see a person apparently eating a dog, GTFO. You spy neighbors acting strangely and seemingly attacking each other — don’t let any family member out of your sight alone. Another neighbor does her best Frankenstein’s monster walk, reaching for you and growling through the fence, you shoot off her mothereffin’ head —thank you very much. You know there are such “people” roaming through the neighborhood; don’t go sit in your car — which is blocked into the driveway — with your windows down, essentially trapped, and a sitting duck. While by the end of “The Dog” Maddie started coming around, she spent most of the hour veering between some sort of awakening and deliberately obtuse. Don’t even get me started on “weak” Travis, the alterna-world’s would-be-Herschel..."
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