Poll: (Revamp) The Walking Dead - Poll / discussion

[HenrySugar]

So I've searched and found some lightly off-the-beat and dead forums of The Walking Dead Graphic / Serials off the telly and have decided that I would try to up the stakes and keep people interested. Seeing how we're half way through the second season now and things are becoming interesting in the parallel universe of the tellys version, I want other peoples opinions.

Yes, I own all the graphic novels that have been published, and I do go back and check some references from time to time. One of my hobbies is actually comparing books to movies and such (including video games to movies). What I noticed, and what I am beginning to like, is the fact that the telly series is playing is smart by not launching too far or too fast into the series while it is still being written out. By doing this, they also help build up some suspenseful topics I hope to see in the future. Spoilers would be provided but I don't want to ruin anything.

My personal opinion: I always found the graphics and the telly show interesting because, for me, it was never about zombies. It was about how a group of people tried to survive with the ordeal and with one another. The drama, philosophies, atonement, love, action, and gritty style of trying to survive against walking dead and other humans was something that hooked me in. In a sense, for me, it felt as though the main group of survivors were - in a sense - truly The Walking Dead. Why? Because, this event takes place that changes them, takes something important and lively from them. Hope, perhaps? Meh, I won't go too in depth.


According to some people on the IMDb boards of The Walking Dead, some people have argued that
the first season was excellent and people had high hopes, where as the second season was more grounded with character development and less undead action. While some argue that it should be all gore and zombie fest, others argue that it is a show of human bonding in a time of a catastrophic event.

What do you think?
What do you like and hate so far?
What would you fall under if you took the poll, and why would you classify yourself as such?

 

[JayElleBee]

I've never read the graphic novels, so I can't really comment on that, but as far as the show goes I really do prefer the focus on the last remnants of humanity over all the gore. It's something that really interests me and I find the way that people respond in post-apocalyptic situations fascinating. If the show became all about blood and guts and all that nasty crap I probably wouldn't watch it any more. I get that it could be entertaining for some people but if a show doesn't make me think then I'm not going to watch it.

As for what I hate so far... Andrea and Lori. That is all.

And I voted for "A member of a team, silent and obedient but with a voice when needed." I'm a bit of a spoilt brat but I also have a teensy bit of a defeatist attitude so I don't think I'd whine and stomp my feet because I'd have to pull my weight. I think I'd just shut up and do as I'm told unless the others in my group were thinking about doing something that I found reprehensible (such as abandoning the search for a lost little girl).

 

[Vault101]

walking dead looks interesting but it seems too depressing

somtimes though, as despressing as some things seem they I feel the need to get drawn in

like Y:the last man...a comic, it seems depressing but the Idea of a moslty female society facinates me, Ill have to pick it up at some point

 

[Kae]

Character focus is definitely the best part of the show, but the reason why it worked was because of the awesome action packed first season that hooked you for long enough to start giving a crap about the characters, the whole lost humanity thing and having to see whether morals still apply to this kind of situation is pretty good too, overall I like it a lot.
As to what I dislike, well I don't understand Shane's motivations very well, though I feel I should by this point, and yeah Lory is kind of annoying.

As for what kind of person would I be in that situation, most likely a zombie I mean that time that I was lost in that forest for 5 days I didn't eat anything nor found shelter or managed to create fire, so I'm pretty sure my survival skills are utter shit, and even if I didn't die because of that I also get distracted really easily, I'm practically blind without my glasses which are broken and fall off every time I look down, my physical strength is rather pathetic, I trip every 5 minutes when running now add to that the fact that I pretty much am incapable of killing a person and that I can't leave behind anybody and put myself in danger to help others mostly because I'm stupid, and yeah, my survival is pretty unlikely.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Reading the graphic novel, not watching the series yet. Up to book 6 of the hard cover collection my sister owns.

I guess the college student works for me. I won't let the group I'm in turn into animals just to survive but I'm not going to contest some of the dirtier necessities like murdering people out to kill our group for supplies.

 

[FalloutJack]

Who reads/watches The Walking Dead for the characters? It's all about the zombies, baby!

 

[Vault101]

Who reads/watches The Walking Dead for the characters? It's all about the zombies, baby!

....Zombies dont make compelling charachters..

"uuuuggghh"
"ooorrrrr?"
"aaaauugghhhh!"
"ooorrr"
"AAAGHH!
"ooooaaaghh!"
"sob* "agh"
*hugs* "ooaaaaghh

 

[FalloutJack]

Who reads/watches The Walking Dead for the characters? It's all about the zombies, baby!

....Zombies dont make compelling charachters..

"uuuuggghh"
"ooorrrrr?"
"aaaauugghhhh!"
"ooorrr"
"AAAGHH!
"ooooaaaghh!"
"sob* "agh"
*hugs* "ooaaaaghh

As funny as that was, I stand by my statement. The Dead Walking is certainly full of characters and their day-to-day lives in zombie apocalypse, but the zombies are what makes these average yokels come alive as they continue to torment them on a daily basis. Dead The Walking features so much human suffering and doom that you kind of have to elevate the zombies to villain level, having beaten the heroes hands-down. It's like one of those movies where the bad guy puts them through so much hell that they're practically the main character...and in this case, he's not gonna be defeated.

Walking The Dead is one of those dark and edgey things, like a Ray Bradbury tale where human colonists slowly become the new Martians because they're stuck on the planet and have no way of fighting the influence on them. The people in these cases are interchangeable. So are the locations. And in some ways, so is the threat. All it has to be is so encompassing that it is a power in of itself that drives the plot forward. Zombies are a phenomenon that will keep on going, no matter what, much like them.