Totally Off Topic: Why the Walking Dead is Horrible

The show is so poorly written.

There is not a single character that has continuity from one scene to the next. At times, I think the writers are suffering from a lack of extra actors to say certain lines. For the most part it comes off as a bunch of feminist crap, because they have a female character say something evil to a male character.

The writing is just really poor. Instead of developing a scene they are just throwing paint on the wall and seeing what sticks. add on top of that, bad directing and bad acting. it is the director’s job to time lines and time scenes. this show has awkward scene after awkward scene with a character pausing between lines. there’s not an actor I even like the show.

As far as the governor’s arc, it doesn’t work. they would have to portray all the guys that work under him as being stupid or obscenely evil, which they haven’t developed in over 5 hours of dialogue with the various underlings. the little scientist guy, they keep oscillating between him being weak willed and being genuinely scientific, and and having a line “for science”, doesn’t make him scientific. He needs to either be cold and detached or nerdy / weak and smart. as he is written he’s schizophrenic.

The governor character, himself, you cannot pin down anything. instead it being a rich character you want to hate, he is just annoying. they don’t have him bringing the town together and showing people being thankful. They don’t have him shooting little kids in the head. they don’t have him being a megalomaniac. he is simply annoying. he’s not really evil. he’s not really nice. he’s not really loving.

Finally…. there’s nothing supernatural about the story. The writers sprinkle zombies in EXACTLY where they want them.  *character standing by tree* INSTANT ZOMBIE REACH THROUGH FROM OTHER SIDE. *character sitting on chair with hands in head crying* INSTANT ZOMBIE CROWD SUDDENLY APPEARS AROUND HIM. *character in building for 30 minutes, going through house to make sure it’s empty and then looks under sink* INSTANT ZOMBIE CROWD APPEARS IN KITCHEN SURROUNDING HIM WHEN HE CLOSES THE CABINET DOOR.

The entire point of the show, from the audience’s perspective, is to see how people would react in a zombie apocalypse. This show is instead cashing in on the trending zombie theme. Some genius figured out that zombies are trending right now and wrote a terrible comic and an even worse zombie tv show.

Instead of seeing character react in desperate situation, like a zombie apocalypse, instead we have complete feminist propaganda with female drama, with no point to it…. OH YEAH… and zombies.

For instance [not that I’m trying to get a script writing gig, but it just seems so obvious] a Black guy approaches a white guy shooting zombies on top of a 10 story building with a rifle, the sound carrying for miles and miles around, drawing the attention of every zombie within the Atlanta city limits. The Black guy, T-Dog, who is unarmed, and up to this point is the communications specialist, says stop shooting, you’re using bullets we don’t even have. To which the white guy, Merle, says that’ll be the day I’ll take orders from a nigger, and proceeds to beat him with the rifle. Let’s point out the logistics of the scene. T-Dog is 300lbs all day long, and all of 27 years old. Merle is 130lbs 5’6 and 60 years old. Yet somehow manhandles T-Dog.

The reality of this scene would have been T-Dog, having suspected that Merle was a racist the whole time and would never have been put in that situation. Next, when he said, “that’ll be the day I take orders from a nigger,” T-Dog would have taken out his gat and blasted him. Or, since he’s 300lbs, just one punch to knock him the heck out.

The problem is Hollywood has turned this into another “white man’s story”. The entire setting is in a place with 54% Black people in the city and nearly 40% Black people in the countryside, yet they put nothing but token Negros in the show, with little to no lines.