Wellington as an ideal
I think people have been trained enough by the zombie apocalypse genre to expect Wellington, when and if we get there, to be a pipe dream. Either it'll be run by crazy people, it will be already overrun, or it will have never existed in the first place. If you know anything about this genre, the idea of it actually being a safe place run by sane people almost doesn't cross one's mind.
That's why I hope the writers understand that expectation and play with it a bit.
Example - We never get to see Wellington, at least in this season. As the situation gets worse and worse and more members of the group die, it becomes an ideal, a beacon in the dark for people growing increasingly hopeless. The reality of the place almost doesn't matter next to the safety and solace it represents. It becomes an all consuming goal that keeps everyone driving forward through all the horror and the steadily declining sanity of the survivors.
If we see Wellington at all, let it be in the distance at the very end of Episode 5 as whatever remnants of Clem's group struggle toward it, still an ideal and not a disappointing reality. Let it represent hope and the refusal to abandon hope.
That might be more interesting than just having it be yet another place overrun by zombies or psychos.
That's why I hope the writers understand that expectation and play with it a bit.
Example - We never get to see Wellington, at least in this season. As the situation gets worse and worse and more members of the group die, it becomes an ideal, a beacon in the dark for people growing increasingly hopeless. The reality of the place almost doesn't matter next to the safety and solace it represents. It becomes an all consuming goal that keeps everyone driving forward through all the horror and the steadily declining sanity of the survivors.
If we see Wellington at all, let it be in the distance at the very end of Episode 5 as whatever remnants of Clem's group struggle toward it, still an ideal and not a disappointing reality. Let it represent hope and the refusal to abandon hope.
That might be more interesting than just having it be yet another place overrun by zombies or psychos.
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