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WALKING DUMBASSES

I wouldn’t say that I love the cable TV show “The Walking Dead” beyond measure.  It surely is one of the better ones out there, not that you are really presented with that high of a bar to leap, and one of the few I’d pay good money to watch.  You can’t say it is the best post-apocalypse show out there, as I do believe it is the ONLY show, ever, to survive the bean counter ax and thrive.  It surely gives an audience enough of a target every episode.  If you are one of those people who hate shows you have to yell at ( “yo, naked white chick, there’s a guy with a hockey mask and a spear out there!” or “the haunted house is telling you to Get Out!  So, Get Out!” ) then The Walking Dead surely chaps your ass nearly all the time.  I find myself constantly yelling at the characters.  The last season, they have a rocket propelled grenade, a tube and I believe three reloads.  The first time, Greasy Biker Dude ( and that is another thing.  You are living in a semi-civilized outpost, and you never shave?  Never apply soap to your head?  Never get a haircut?  ) uses a round to wipe out a squad of enemy bikers.  Cool.  Then, he uses one to ignite gasoline atop a pond ( to lure zombies in ).  WAAHAT???  You just wasted an RPG on lighting a pool of gas?  How about using it to stop an armored attack next time?  Why didn’t you run a trail of gas up to your position and light it with a match?  What a hump-tard!

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I mean, I don’t even think an RPG would detonate hitting water ( not that I’m positive.  But if I only had two rounds left I wouldn’t use 50% of my supply and take the chance it doesn’t go off ).  I can understand it was far more “cool” that way.  Just like nobody wants to watch a show where nobody talks while on patrol, so for “TV action and excitement” you add these little impossibilities.  I get that.  But other times?  Like in the beginning of the show, when they were living in tents.  Okay, I get you are suburbanites rudely thrust out into the woods.  You have your wives.  Bitches are NOT going to sleep with the bugs.  So you live out of tents.  Then, after a piss poor job of guard duty, the zombies attack.  And nobody can get out of their tents in time and a lot of people get eaten.  You can’t see your surroundings ( although it was odd nobody heard the moaning ).  And how is knifing a skull supposed to be that easy?  At first it was just the gooey soft zombies but now it is just-dead-head-shot-them-before-they-zombify-still-hard-bone-humans.

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There are a TON of these dumbass moments ( hence the mocking title of this article ).  If I listed them as they occurred as I’ve watched the show over the years I could probably write a solid weeks worth of articles on this subject.  Alas, I tried re-watching from the beginning and there hasn’t been enough time gone by ( I didn’t start watching until the third or forth season, buying the DVD’s and binge watching.  Now I binge watch every fall when the new season comes to Netflix ) and I’m too bored to research for an article series.  That is another thing a lot of folks complain about-not much happens over the course of each show.  Well, that should be considered a good thing.  As this is TV, if they spent too much on each show they would stop producing it as soon as ratings took the smallest dip.  Remember “Miami Vice”?  At the time, a million an episode was considered scandalous and the show was canceled soon after.  Less action, more dialog and less elaborate sets and you have a longer running series.

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I personally like the focus on characters rather than action.  I prefer my books that way, also.  And that is why I think the show does so well.  We invest our interest in characters far better than a repeated formula plot ( not that there is much plot here-another new evil dude threatens the group, the group perseveres and overcomes while dodging zombies ).  Don’t get me wrong, most of the characters are REALLY friggin annoying.  Rick’s son, STILL a whiney little hump who needs a damn haircut ( looking at the sullen runt, you can understand how parents felt in the ‘60’s when long hair became fashionable ).  Rick, who is WAY too much of a navel gazer.  The older gal, who osculates between a ninja Zena or a high maintenance princess.  The oriental guy who looks like a lost puppy in-between combat missions.  Okay, I get the premise.  The women viewers probably want their men to be billy badass warriors, AND a modern sensitive partner who shares his feelings.  A lot of the dialog is by necessity going to have to be about their mental conditions.  You can’t go for hours talking about the weather.  

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Accounting for all this, the show is still something I look forward to each year.  It is the closest we come to a taste of the aftermath.  And I have to say, I REALLY liked how the last season ended.  For once, being a dumbass was punished.  I had an actually glow of happiness about me an hour after the last episode was viewed.  Thank goodness, a comeuppance at last!  The show finally acknowledges ( I have no exposure to the original graphic novels the show is based on and have no idea how the two compare ) that there is always someone out there smarter than you, bigger and bad-er than you.  It shows how being a dumbass will get people killed-FINALLY!  We’ll discuss this further tomorrow.

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