Is there anything original left to do with the zombie apocalypse?
I get the feeling that, whatever the plotline of season 2 will be, it will have a strong sense of deja vu from the other ten bazillion pieces of fiction out there taking place during a zombie apocalypse. Perhaps that's part of the charm of the genre. You see the same tropes popping up again and again, without shame.
But it does make me wonder whether there are any storylines that wouldn't feel like a retread of well-worn territory. Can anything truly original be written about a setting such as this, by this point?
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Unless Kirkman loosens up his mandates that A) the zombies will never get smarter, and
things will always get worse no matter how hard the characters struggle to survive, I doubt it.
The zombie genre in itself has been done to death (no pun intended).
It's Telltale's aim in exploring in-depth characters and their conflicts that keeps it interesting for me.
Why do you think they added the sickness in Season 4?
I think they were running out of ideas
Right. Honestly, just how many times can you do the 'HUMANS are the REAL monsters!' plotline before people get it? Just how often can the 'Some people want to keep their morality and others want to do whatever it takes to survive, and the former slowly become like the latter if they live long enough!' routine be played through before it gets to be old hat?
I don't read the comic, but I get the impression that as a premise its kinda running on fumes at this point. The zombies are too stupid to remain a constant threat, unless the survivors are equally stupid. And you can always expect that, even should the survivors find temporary shelter, it will go horribly wrong soon after because people being comfortable and happy during the zombie apocalypse is pretty boring.
In this particular case, I'm more interested in the story about the people. The zombie apocalypse could be any pandemic.
To kill time before the Governor returns, probably.
Romero did it first, and did it best in DAWN OF THE DEAD. He also got his message across in just under two hours. Now, imagine this point being hammered home over and over again in an ongoing series, regardless of whether it's a comic book or television show.
I just think it would be a great way to blow a little raspberry at zombie nihilism if Clementine actually manages to survive without becoming a pragmatic survivalist uberbitch. Then again, that's part of the appeal of playing the game.
Actually they wanted to show that there are more problemsthan just walkers and other people, sicknesses just didn't disappeared from earth and you can controled them when you have medicine but when you don't it's really hard. Also they wanted to show how powerless people get when they can't control situations, like Glenn said, with walkers you can kill them, with sickness you just stay there waiting to die.
The walking dead, tv show, comics, gamem whatever, is more about people than the world overun with zombies itself. It shows that not only badasses survive appocalypses and shows how people survive and adapt with new things. And yes I agree with no matter what they do everything will get worse because that's what would happen. If the walkers are a bacteria or a virus, it's like a living thing that's trying to survive, so it's basically survivel of the fittest, but humans are no longer the strongest species. i love a scene in episode 5 where Lee walks on top of a "brige" of wood between two buildings and you just see a bunch of walkers and you notice that humans are powerless, you are running from the strongest species (the walker virus or bacteria) like rats and bugs run from humans because they are stronger. You are just notehr species trying to survive the stronger one.