The Walking Dead: The Television Series

Dylflon · 03-09-2012, 11:37 AM

Without spoiling anything, the next location they end up staying in comic timeline-wise, they stay there for a long time. Out of everything created so far in the comics, I think one third of the comics is set in one location.

I'm with Sean. People would crave stability and safety over everything else. I'm sure the season will end with the farm no longer being a viable place to stay.

The first season felt like it was about reaction and a building sense of hope that they could get to the safe place, or find the guy who had the cure.

This season is about accepting that there is no going back. There's no Fort Benning where they'll be safe and protected. There's no scientists at the CDC who can make it all better. This whole season to me has been about the death of hope and coming to terms with the world as it is now, and figuring out how to behave in it.

You can't tell that story when it's a story about getting from point A to point B. Where the heck would they even go? To me the story they're telling right now is more interesting than just trying to get to the next objective.

If the show feels directionless, that might be a reflection of how the characters are feeling.

Edit: Also, I'm surprised. I feel I'm generally more critical of tv and films than most of you since I frequently bitch about bad acting/pacing/storytelling but for whatever reason I don't seem to have the same complaints everyone else does. I suppose that it's just that what I like is vastly different from what normal people like. I never have much to bitch about when I watch this show. Even my fiance was bored when the pace slowed down, but I've always been really happy with the show.

Vampyr · 03-09-2012, 01:33 PM

I don't think the farm is the problem, people just perceive the static location as a cause for the stagnant plot.

It isn't. Going back to a Joss Whedon example, the first 3 seasons of Buffy took place in mostly the same locations, primarily the library at the high school. That one room housed so many scenes from each episode, and it never felt dull. They kept finding new camera angles to use, and the dialogue was always perfect.

Leaving the farm and taking the show on the road wouldn't fix anything.