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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Do you guys seriously not get that there is a level of suspension of disbelief that any show cannot exceed? It's not like, "oh here's something that couldn't happen, therefore anything else in the show that they do is fair game and you can't complain about it being absurd".
Let's say that instead of Morgan breaking Darryl and Aaron out of the car, the horde of zombies was suddenly immolated by Danerys Targaryen riding a dragon. Is your reaction, "well, there are zombies and that's pretty silly, so dragons are also fine".
Everyone has a tolerance for this stuff where if you go beyond it, it throws you right out of the fantasy world that the show has created. The boundaries of reality that it sets that you agree to use as the new normal for the purposes of enjoying the show. It's not a license to do ANYTHING while being able to count on the credulity of the audience. There are limits, and they're different for different viewers.
Here's a perfect example of what I'm talking about. No one thinks there are elves, orcs, balrogs, wizards and dragons, but we take those things as read to enjoy Tolkein's world. But then you see a scene like this:
And your reaction is, or at least mine is, "Yeah guys. I'm sure that barrel just bounces perfectly like that. What the f*** ever."
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A little off topic, but I'm a huge LOTR fan and I'm thoroughly disgusted with The Hobbit movie. As a 'purist' Tolkien fan, I realize there were certain limitations when making a movie about LOTR, and so I forgave a lot of stuff Jackson did, and all in all LOTR was a great movie, especially extended edition. But what he did in the Hobbit was just an abomination. Specifically, inventing the love triangle, the barrel scene (
), over exaggerating Legolas' role, the fact that Fili died for his elf girlfriend instead of defending the King, ending the movie rather abruptly, etc etc.
Anyhow, onto The Walking Dead. Great show
