localyokel
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RB07OSU;2125080; said:
My main problem with this reasoning is this: TWD is not a documentary.
TWD is the invention of a team of writers (bargain basement writers, granted, since AMC went all Scrooge McDuck post Season 1) but writers, nevertheless, who are living comfortably in a non-apocalyptic world. I'm sure all the backstage shenanigans have been stressful, but not nearly stressful enough to justify the writers having meltdowns of logic and consistency.
I've personally never seen a negative turnaround like this in a show I've watched. So, for the time being, I do check in on its progress because I'm kind of fascinated with the process. But, I am very close to taking the advice to just stop watching--precariously teetering on that edge. Frankly, the production staff's utter lack of concern with maintaining believable character development (and, as Kyle noted, little details that Ed Wood would have appreciated, like indifference to whether it's day or night) smack of contempt for the viewers. Now the dead instantly become zombies but a few weeks agp an entire freeway full of cars contained dead who didn't turn. When they were in Atlanta, they had to smear themselves with zombie guts in order to walk the streets, but on the freeway all they had to do was shimmy under a car. There's no good explanation for this, except that the creators just don't care. The list goes on and on. It's one more demonstration of how much everyone from producers on down...Just. Don't. Care.
So, if some of us choose to make fun of it, I'd say we're giving TWD as much respect as they've given us.
Here's a little tip attributed to Ed that TWD could consider: ""You know, hun, when you rewrite a script it just gets better and better."
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6l-GWwZZ7c"]http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6l-GWwZZ7c[/ame]
Oh, and, please name something (anything) that has happened on this show in a "split-second". Shane can't even attempt murder without it devolving into another episode from Days of Our Zombie Lives. If the Godfather movie had followed a similar tact, forty years later poor old Abe Vigoda would still be standing in the driveway asking Tom Hagen to get him off the hook.
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