Michonne on the show is if anything way more humanized than comic Michonne, at least at the point I stopped reading. Her character made no sense, why a Russian lit major would grab a samurai sword and become the stoic didn’t convince me. I remember no back story in the comic about her having a dead child, but she did say the pet zombies were two ex-BFs. Also in the comic the Governor takes her hostage and brutally rapes her, I had a problem with how prurient some of the art was.
Why would people still be fat many many months after a zombie apocalypse when food is hard to find and most of the characters are constantly on the run? Wouldn’t that be like the world’s best diet plan?
We’re three years in at this point in show time, I think second third season was 1-2 years in. No one would be ALLOWED to remain fat in the communal compounds, no one would be allowed to eat that much food. Also no electricity equals no TV or videogames.
Im being a bit flippant here, but this makes too much sense. These are the same people who willingly fight Zombies at close quarters whilst wearing a pair of Daisy Dukes and a bikini top.
Michonne glowered and never opened her mouth for the longest time. I was neutral on her. After the episodes with her, Rick, and Carl, she is now my second favorite character on TWD.
I love Debra on Everybody Loves Raymond, 80% of the time. She has good reason to be bitchy. 20% of the time she is maddening. When she nagged Ray to throw Robert “a real fun party, a real shindig” bachelor party - men don’t do that kind of thing as a rule! Shut! Up!..When she wanted to cook a fish for Thanksgiving… When she went to the Super Bowl with Ray and expected it to be romantic weekend getaway, just the two of them. (Neither here nor there, I also thought Patricia Heaton was quite beautiful until she revealed her inner fundy ugliness in the last few years. Suitable then that she’s had some hideous plastic surgery to match.)
This question might make sense if there were a lot of fat people in season 1. And if we weren’t having a dscussion about the dearth of fat characters in general.
(Have you ever been to Georgia? There are some really big folks down there. Even after a year of walking, I’d expect to see at least a few large zombiies. It’s not like they’re speed walking or running marathons.)
They are filming in extremely hot and humid conditions, I have heard of David Morrisey complaining about this before. Sitting around all day caked in make-up and in extreme heat probably isn’t a great idea for many large individuals.
I disagree. Rick’s farming doesn’t seem notably successful. They have no livestock to speak of. They must be eating calorie-dense canned and preserved food that they scavenge. There isn’t any great amount of hard physical labor that has to be done in the compound. No farming. No mining. No manufacturing. They can’t/won’t/don’t leave the compound for purely recreational purposes; so nobody is going out jogging or hiking or rock climbing. There is no reason to believe these people would have the lean, chiseled gym-rat physiques they exhibit. Andrew Lincoln and Norman Reedus, in particular, have buffed up during the course of the show (despite Reedus being on record that he hates exercise).
You have a point about the lack of zombie variety, they did find a real big guy in the well. What bugs me is all the female zombies wearing filthy old full length dresses, almost all of them! Did they all come from some whacky fundie cult or something?
I’m still watching it and still enjoying it, but I’m getting a little annoyed by The Big Bang Theory becoming “Friends with High IQs”. The show used to be about the guys, Penny, and the contrast between their nerdy pursuits and her more mainstream outlook. Then Amy and Bernadette showed up, but they were scientists and nerdy and quirky. But as the show goes on, those two have become less defined by their nerdiness and more defined by the fact that they’re the guys’ girlfriends (and “girls” in general–when the characters divide up to do different things, it’s almost always the guys doing nerdy things and the girls doing “girly” things (like getting Princess makeovers, or attending a tea party)).
It would be nice if at least one of the girls was a hardcore nerd and actually liked doing nerdy things with the guys (similar to Raj, who’s been shown to enjoy doing girly things with the girls). Oddly enough, out of all the girls, Penny seems to be growing into filling this role, but she isn’t there yet.
I can actually buy the lack of husky characters in a post-apocalyptic movie where food scarcity is an issue. What seems really odd to me is movies are television shows that are supposedly the mid-West or South and everyone even the poor characters who don’t have access to plastic surgery look like models.
There really ARE a shitload of female zombies in long dresses. I’m not sure what that’s about - I suspect the producers/dressers/whomever just like the visual of a long, dirty dress.
It didn’t make me give up on the show (and the cancellation took care of that for me), but I always had problems with how Inara was portrayed on Firefly. It was always hard to put a finger on, but she always struck me as too perfect. Like I couldn’t stop picturing Joss Whedon grinning at himself in smug satisfaction for putting an empowered, educated feminist sex-object love-object prostitute on network TV.
And that question (which you knew was offensive, hence the disclaimer) was already answered. The very first post responding to it explained that merely showing something is not glorification, and previous posts had already covered how it would fit in The Walking Dead world. Since then, it’s been explained ad nauseum.
Maybe it was a legitimate question at first, but it’s now a hijack. It’s turned into a contentious GD thread, not something for the lighthearted Cafe Society. If you want to further discuss the subject of the portrayal of fat people in fiction, open a GD thread.
We would rather get back to the actual subject of this thread.