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fredr123 · 09-23-2015, 10:31 AM

I feel like we were sold on a show that takes place before the outbreak. The implication was that we could see how things went down when the virus or whatever it was started to spread. The first couple episodes made good on that promise. Unexplained viral videos of zombie attacks. An alarming rise in people calling in sick. Traffic jams. Riots in the street. Runs at the grocery store on supplies. People in denial. All that stuff.

No one really knows what's going on and everyone is learning about what's happening and how to deal with it at a different pace. We have families gathering together and planning to make a break for someplace save, because it looks like even home isn't safe anymore and then blam. The military shows up. Fast forward nine days and our protagonists are living in one of what, twelve?, safe zones in the city inside a fence with a 6 mile DMZ surrounding them.

If the focus of the show is more on the period of time leading up to the downfall of society than it is the kind of survival themes that we see in TWD, then the military's involvement is important. The amount of carnage they must've caused to secure the area is also an opportunity for the effects team to showcase their talents and for the show runner to give TWD fans a taste of the zombie gore they have come to expect. By skipping over the military set up, in my opinion, the show has done a disservice to the goal of showing what happened during the initial stages of the outbreak AND they blew a chance to show a bunch of sweet zombie killing. Like missing two birds with one stone. Or something.

The time jump may prove to be a minor thing, but at this stage it was too obvious and noticeable. The show only has 6 episodes this season and we've already had a two week week break after the second episode. That's not the show's fault, but it makes it harder for the show to build momentum and for the pacing of the plot to make sense. The show may as well have run some words at the bottom of the screen that said "Nine Days Later" because the soliloquy by Chris to his camcorder felt forced and out of place.

I'm going to stick it out to the end for a few reasons, not the least of which is that I've already purchased the season pass on iTunes. There are only two episodes left this season and I'm enough of a fan of TWD show and comics to give the rest of this series a chance.

09-23-2015, 10:31 AM	#154
fredr123 Franchise Player Join Date: Apr 2004 Exp:	I feel like we were sold on a show that takes place before the outbreak. The implication was that we could see how things went down when the virus or whatever it was started to spread. The first couple episodes made good on that promise. Unexplained viral videos of zombie attacks. An alarming rise in people calling in sick. Traffic jams. Riots in the street. Runs at the grocery store on supplies. People in denial. All that stuff. No one really knows what's going on and everyone is learning about what's happening and how to deal with it at a different pace. We have families gathering together and planning to make a break for someplace save, because it looks like even home isn't safe anymore and then blam. The military shows up. Fast forward nine days and our protagonists are living in one of what, twelve?, safe zones in the city inside a fence with a 6 mile DMZ surrounding them. If the focus of the show is more on the period of time leading up to the downfall of society than it is the kind of survival themes that we see in TWD, then the military's involvement is important. The amount of carnage they must've caused to secure the area is also an opportunity for the effects team to showcase their talents and for the show runner to give TWD fans a taste of the zombie gore they have come to expect. By skipping over the military set up, in my opinion, the show has done a disservice to the goal of showing what happened during the initial stages of the outbreak AND they blew a chance to show a bunch of sweet zombie killing. Like missing two birds with one stone. Or something. The time jump may prove to be a minor thing, but at this stage it was too obvious and noticeable. The show only has 6 episodes this season and we've already had a two week week break after the second episode. That's not the show's fault, but it makes it harder for the show to build momentum and for the pacing of the plot to make sense. The show may as well have run some words at the bottom of the screen that said "Nine Days Later" because the soliloquy by Chris to his camcorder felt forced and out of place. I'm going to stick it out to the end for a few reasons, not the least of which is that I've already purchased the season pass on iTunes. There are only two episodes left this season and I'm enough of a fan of TWD show and comics to give the rest of this series a chance.