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Shneak posted:The only thing FTWD has going for it are the locations. They're a lot more interesting than 'Georgia' and 'Georgia except not.' I haven't watched FtWD because frankly it looks horrible, but the locations are good? The main sell for The Walking Dead in my mind was that it 1) took place "after" the outbreak, and 2) took place somewhere not a major city like LA or NYC. Those things felt like novelties at the time, so a version of the same story set in LA during the outbreak seems like a step back. But yeah, I could stand to see somewhere not-Georgia. I wish they'd been more ambitious about FtWD, though. Somewhere not in the US, maybe. Or if they're going to do a US city, something like Boston or Minneapolis or Denver. Southern California is so familiar as a setting...seeing the worldview of TWD transposed to a place with winter or mountains would be neat.
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BonoMan posted:Maybe people, oh I don't know, TRY TO loving FIGURE SOMETHING, ANYTHING, OUT ABOUT THIS NEW WORLD. This. This is my complaint. Rendering more extreme violence against familiar characters is the most dramatically inert way to bring "new drama" to the show. We've already seen this, so many times. The Governor did this exact thing with Hershel. The Terminus people walked that path, too. The only variation this time is how vivid they went with their depiction, and it feels exploitative because it is. "Man's inhumanity to man" is such a well-trod theme at this point, there just aren't many more places to take it. It sucks because last season, the whole "your world's about to get a whole lot bigger" thing actually grabbed me. I wanted to see new settlements, hear different stories from different characters. Rick & Co. building a ham radio and learning about different colonies up and down the Chesapeake would've been cool as hell. But nope: new warlord. I can't wait to see how they string out the next half season before the team gets the upper hand and kills him.
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