It has often amazed me, how people behind great shows, brilliant shows, at times make the most abhorrently stupid choices concerning their storytelling. The Walking Dead has been a stellar show, top of the shelf television from day one, and along come The Scavengers.
I can forgive the idea, in its infancy, but how a group of such talented directors, writers, producers and actors ALL decided that THIS was the way to go, is absolutely beyond me!
I learned today that The Scavengers are a group unique to the show, as in not from the comics, and it makes me wonder if the comics are really all that, and the people behind the show are just amateurs the lot. If you don't know by now specifically what grinds my gears about this new addition to the show, then you haven't noticed, and I'm happy for you. But picture this:
A meeting, of the show-runners, they need a new group to spice up the show, and they've used up the source material. An idea is pitched; Garbage people. Fine, I'm in. Another idea is pitched, then another, and then, somewhere in the room, some moron opens their mouth "hey, how about if they, like, talked weird, you know, because, like, post apocalyptic stuff?".
Like I said, I can forgive a bad pitch. But this insane idea; that adults, who lived their whole lives speaking normally, would digress into this ineffective, unproductive and downright moronic way of communicating, just by living in a dump surrounded by zombies for a couple of years, made it all the way to the screen. Nobody second guessed it, everyone signed off on it, that is what absolutely blows my mind. Back to the meeting: "It's totally plausible that people living isolated for years will start to speak differently, maybe they just skip a word here and there, it'll make them edgy, exciting". Yes, except it's not plausible, at all, it's not edgy, it's just downright idiotic. It's the sort of idea that works in a Hunger Games novel, in a Riverdale episode maybe. How does the same episode have such a brilliant, mature scene between Darryl and Carrol? Perhaps because the The Walking Dead, zombies aside, is a mature show, for mature people, a show that takes the world it exists in seriously, that takes human nature seriously and, most importantly, takes its viewers seriously.
An otherwise great episode gets a 1/10 from me, just for dragging the show down in the mud with the other mediocre, pandering, teenage melodrama fare that's circulating the streaming services these days, and for a script that should have gone down in flames long before reaching production. Go ahead, Jadis, show Rick the up up up, and then just kill me already..
I can forgive the idea, in its infancy, but how a group of such talented directors, writers, producers and actors ALL decided that THIS was the way to go, is absolutely beyond me!
I learned today that The Scavengers are a group unique to the show, as in not from the comics, and it makes me wonder if the comics are really all that, and the people behind the show are just amateurs the lot. If you don't know by now specifically what grinds my gears about this new addition to the show, then you haven't noticed, and I'm happy for you. But picture this:
A meeting, of the show-runners, they need a new group to spice up the show, and they've used up the source material. An idea is pitched; Garbage people. Fine, I'm in. Another idea is pitched, then another, and then, somewhere in the room, some moron opens their mouth "hey, how about if they, like, talked weird, you know, because, like, post apocalyptic stuff?".
Like I said, I can forgive a bad pitch. But this insane idea; that adults, who lived their whole lives speaking normally, would digress into this ineffective, unproductive and downright moronic way of communicating, just by living in a dump surrounded by zombies for a couple of years, made it all the way to the screen. Nobody second guessed it, everyone signed off on it, that is what absolutely blows my mind. Back to the meeting: "It's totally plausible that people living isolated for years will start to speak differently, maybe they just skip a word here and there, it'll make them edgy, exciting". Yes, except it's not plausible, at all, it's not edgy, it's just downright idiotic. It's the sort of idea that works in a Hunger Games novel, in a Riverdale episode maybe. How does the same episode have such a brilliant, mature scene between Darryl and Carrol? Perhaps because the The Walking Dead, zombies aside, is a mature show, for mature people, a show that takes the world it exists in seriously, that takes human nature seriously and, most importantly, takes its viewers seriously.
An otherwise great episode gets a 1/10 from me, just for dragging the show down in the mud with the other mediocre, pandering, teenage melodrama fare that's circulating the streaming services these days, and for a script that should have gone down in flames long before reaching production. Go ahead, Jadis, show Rick the up up up, and then just kill me already..
