I’ve been thinking about starting a thread about the various stages of Zombie Apocalypse. But generally, my favorite parts are while society is coming apart at the seams through small pockets trying to survive against overwhelming odds.
My least favorite is when we start getting into the politics of post-zombie hunter/scavenger civilizations, which is where we are at now. Because it tends to turn into these sort of cartoonish uber-violent Mad Max societies.
Honestly, I found Tara’s encounter with the armed Oceansiders a lot more tense and realistic than Negan’s over-the-top gruesome spectacle. To me there’s just something a lot scarier about being gunned down by a bunch of nervous idiots because you wandered into the wrong camp, as opposed to being beaten to death by a grandstanding warlord because of a tactical miscalculation. Probably because of its “ordinariness”.
Generally the “black guy” on Walking Dead doesn’t live long enough for me to remember his name.
Since you posted this after my post, it seems like you’re referring to my post. If so, maybe learn to read better. I didn’t refer to Heath by his skin color. I referred to “unnamed zombie woman” by her skin color.
It’s not offensive or even insensitive to say the character is black. It’s an efficient way to identify an otherwise minor character except when there is more than one black character on screen at a time, since that would create ambiguity.
Conveniently, The Walking Dead rarely faces this circumstance.
No one said it was offensive to say that a black person is black. It is, as I said, a bit insensitive to use someone’s colour as the only identifier when (a) his name is used plenty of times in the episode, and (b) when you use the names of every other character in the story except the black guy. It’s simple respect.
Absolutely agreed. One of the reasons this was the best episode in a while even though it was all minor characters. Plus the Oceansiders had a motivation for what they behaved t he way they did and dissenters in the ranks. Much more engaging than the presentation of the Saviors right now. Actually the best encounter with the Saviors the show has presented us thus far was Carol running into them on the road. That was tense and well done.
I have to admit, I appreciated that as Tara was watching, the Oceansiders quietly interrupted their work, quietly got their rifles, and then not-so quietly started shooting, i.e. they had a system worked out among themselves that when an intruder is detected, they will respond in a calm disciplined manner, take up position and then open up with overpowering deadly force.
It fails in that they all seem to have Imperial Stormtrooper aim, though, but if Tara had been killed in the first two or three shots (as is the goal, I gather), we’d have no episode. Instead we get to see a ridiculous amount of wasted ammo and a lot of missed shots (odd behaviour for a group who values concealment above all else), but what can you do, it’s TV.
I membered, but I incorrectly thought Tara had been in the background somewhere when the mattresses got taken. Black hipster, I thought maybe the actor had left the show between seasons.
By the way, if one returns to Alexandria and Eugene is weeping, it doesn’t necessarily mean that some members of the group have been gruesomely bludgeoned into oblivion as a demonstration of arbitrary authority. It could just mean someone’s recently given him a wedgie.
He’s kind of a bully-magnet.
The actress who plays Tara had been pregnant in the latter stages of last season, so when the writers got tired of standing her behind things they sent her off on a supply run ‘up north’.
