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Well, yeah - Kirkman has stated over and over he won't explain that, and I don't blame them. When a show does that, the science fiction takes center stage and typically gets picked apart by the viewer. The whole idea with avoiding it and one of the main reasons TWD is so successful is because it focuses on the people and the character interactions and not the cause itself, because there's nothing they can do about it anyway.
But if they do take another run at a spin off, and they should, they really need to focus on the before and during the outbreak stage, and they can do that well without laying out all the answers. Go back to Atlanta as a setting. Just do a six part miniseries with 2hr long episodes. Have like four-six main characters, a hot EMT who is dating an assistant DA, a low level scientist like Jenner at the CDC, a utility crew out laying fiber in edges of the metro and then maybe a wealthy landowner who has a few ties to DC. All of these people would not necessarily have high level clearance, but start piecing together clues and we watch who their worlds deteriorate as more and more "cases" pop up. But the whole point is we should/would get an almost bird's eye view of the fall of society as thing's fall apart, and then they could maybe show the EMT working at the same hospital Rick was admitted to and continue along with what happened while he was in his coma, and end it all when he wakes up.
Well, yeah - Kirkman has stated over and over he won't explain that, and I don't blame them. When a show does that, the science fiction takes center stage and typically gets picked apart by the viewer. The whole idea with avoiding it and one of the main reasons TWD is so successful is because it focuses on the people and the character interactions and not the cause itself, because there's nothing they can do about it anyway.
But if they do take another run at a spin off, and they should, they really need to focus on the before and during the outbreak stage, and they can do that well without laying out all the answers. Go back to Atlanta as a setting. Just do a six part miniseries with 2hr long episodes. Have like four-six main characters, a hot EMT who is dating an assistant DA, a low level scientist like Jenner at the CDC, a utility crew out laying fiber in edges of the metro and then maybe a wealthy landowner who has a few ties to DC. All of these people would not necessarily have high level clearance, but start piecing together clues and we watch who their worlds deteriorate as more and more "cases" pop up. But the whole point is we should/would get an almost bird's eye view of the fall of society as thing's fall apart, and then they could maybe show the EMT working at the same hospital Rick was admitted to and continue along with what happened while he was in his coma, and end it all when he wakes up.
I think you are on to something. I think Kirkman could have TWD be continuous and have FTWD be a limited series and maybe each season of FTWD follow a different group of people somewhere else in the world.
Well, yeah - Kirkman has stated over and over he won't explain that, and I don't blame them. When a show does that, the science fiction takes center stage and typically gets picked apart by the viewer. The whole idea with avoiding it and one of the main reasons TWD is so successful is because it focuses on the people and the character interactions and not the cause itself, because there's nothing they can do about it anyway.
But if they do take another run at a spin off, and they should, they really need to focus on the before and during the outbreak stage, and they can do that well without laying out all the answers. Go back to Atlanta as a setting. Just do a six part miniseries with 2hr long episodes. Have like four-six main characters, a hot EMT who is dating an assistant DA, a low level scientist like Jenner at the CDC, a utility crew out laying fiber in edges of the metro and then maybe a wealthy landowner who has a few ties to DC. All of these people would not necessarily have high level clearance, but start piecing together clues and we watch who their worlds deteriorate as more and more "cases" pop up. But the whole point is we should/would get an almost bird's eye view of the fall of society as thing's fall apart, and then they could maybe show the EMT working at the same hospital Rick was admitted to and continue along with what happened while he was in his coma, and end it all when he wakes up.
yes, indeed, you are most certainly onto something...!!!
Thanks, all. And come to think of it if they didnt want to go completely clean sheet with new characters it might be an opportunity to bring a couple of old faces back to give them at least a cameo or go all the way and make them regular prominent characters. Jenner is obvious but I could see them bringing back someone like Jacqui who said she worked in the city or Morales or Jim whom they could make something up for a backstory to work them in.
The writing on the show was much more compelling earlier on before it got to the running in the woods from evil bad guy's group that it has grinded down to now. Those first few episodes seemed to pack so much storytelling in the same amount of time that is seemingly wasted now. Sometimes when i think back to when something happened i figure it might have been multiple episodes in and it turns out to have happened in the first 2 or 3.
How come nobody ever uses a plane in these shows? All this wandering around. Just hotwire a plane and get out of the AO.
Probably because none of them are pilots. And besides that people had been clamoring for them to get on a boat forever for these shows and now that we got it we see it isnt that interesting. I dont see how a plane would be that much more compelling. Usually that spells the end of a show/movie and a great unknown if they can find a safe place with no zombies. Othetwise they just have go land and go right back to surviving.
Probably because none of them are pilots. And besides that people had been clamoring for them to get on a boat forever for these shows and now that we got it we see it isnt that interesting. I dont see how a plane would be that much more compelling. Usually that spells the end of a show/movie and a great unknown if they can find a safe place with no zombies. Othetwise they just have go land and go right back to surviving.
Why would you get on a plane? Unless it is a 747 you won't have enough supplies to last more than a few days. Then you have to land which everybody and their brother will see. Boats are bad enough because there is nowhere to hide in an ocean, but a plane would be just idiotic.
When is REAL Walking Dead coming back? I'm so sick of its less-hot younger wannabe sister.
October 23rd at 9pm EST.
6 weeks, 2 days and about 4 hours and 15 minutes from when I posted this. Not that I'm counting.
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