Disc-ussion: (Don't) Walk On By. After a half-arsed facebook comment hijack war over The Walking Dead vs Other Zombie Fiction, here’s a couple of quick reasons to keep on watching…
No matter what anyone else says, the last few episodes of The Walking Dead have the best since the first season. This should be reason enough simply becauseIsaidso, but the usual “boring boring boring I want ZOMBIE MAYHEM” arguments keep cropping up.
Unfortunately, if that’s all you want you’re probably tuning in to the wrong channel. This has always been a show (and comic) more interested in the people left “living” behind in the aftermath of the zombiepocalypse, and over four and a half seasons in it isn’t suddenly going to abandon that.
Of course it’s had its frustrating, drawn out, boring moments, but events since the destruction of the prison have been exceptionally well presented, both in terms of plot and production and in acting from an increasingly impressive cast.
The despairing horror of people finally mulling over the notion of truly giving up is simply, evocatively presented without the need for a single word to be spoken aloud, while nerve-jangling terror is expertly raised in new and surprising ways; the beginning of last week’s episode managed to achieve all this in the first five minutes alone. It’s like the middle-age of World War Z with not a single awful, barely-connected Brad Pitt movie vehicle in sight.
It’s all probably going to go downhill again pretty soon, so until a new series of the wonderful In The Flesh appears let’s all enjoy this wonderful slice of doom and gloom for what it is. It could be worse: it could be that godawful bore The Battery.
It’s all probably going to go downhill again pretty soon, so until a new series of the wonderful In The Flesh appears let’s all enjoy this wonderful slice of doom and gloom for what it is. It could be worse: it could be that godawful bore The Battery.
By: Versais Demauve
