Posted on 02/18/2015 2:55:22 AM PST by raybbr
Or, you can imagine the zombies as being homosexuals. Kind of puts a different perspective on things.
Jumping the Shark — introducing gay characters on shows... (if they remade ‘The Brady Bunch’... Cousin Oliver would be a gay kid...
If its introduced as, this gay might be Gay, and Daryl says "who the hell cares, you ain't a walker", and its just incidental to the show, then I got no problem with it.
If the show goes on and on about it, then I would have a problem with it.
I bet Greg Nicotero et al would choose the former.
But who knows, this might turn into the "Dancing and Singing Dead"....
I have proudly never watch a minute of that show. The title of this thread validates my choice of entertainment.
+1 to that. It’s usually done as some kind of desperation when a show is reaching its’ closing stages. The Walking Dead is one of those shows, it is closing down, and they will throw out whatever they can to try and shore up some viewers for it.
Reminds me of World War Z. Zombies don’t go for the diseased people...
Precisely!
They already have experimented with post-apocalyptic polygamy, which isn’t such a bad idea when you have way more women than men. The most notorious I can think of are The games that parody America after Nuclear War, called Fallout.
Show got boring for me a long time ago, glad I stopped watching it now.
We’ve run out of ideas or money, so the episodes get simpler and cheaper. A whole episode on Tyrese’s death. An entire episode on not having water.
To hell with that now. To hell with anything “Dead”.
*Shrug* You must have missed Tara.
I've been told by someone who read the comics that it isn't an in-your-face storyline. I'll keep watching...the show's too good to miss because of that guy.
I see enough zombies whenever I watch a news clip of DC, Detroit, St. Louis etc... or go to town. Why watch a series about them?
You do know, right, that furthering the dramatic storyline is the goal, through bad decisions or whatever else? It's not a Discovery channel survivalist documentary.
They are two percent of the population, but somehow have made it into about 70% of the TV Shows.
I very much care that atypical characterizations of gay characters are constantly bombarding my neighbors television screens and giving them a false understanding of the characteristics and nature of homosexual men.
The Los Angeles and New York based media have been pushing these dramatically cleaned up portrayals of homosexual men for decades. They virtually *NEVER* show the reality. (which is on display in the various "gay" parades, such as in San Fransisco).
It's all propaganda, and it is how they have been winning the election wars too.
That was the ‘cure’ in World War Z. Disease that is.
I like the show. At least until they close off roads and back up traffic for filming (it’s filmed around our neck of the woods). I haven’t read the comic so I’m just wondering if this is a token character to appease the LGBT lobby -or- if his sexuality actually makes a point or is pertinent in the plot (I can’t imagine how)?
If someone is having sex (straight, sideways or whatever), go find some privacy and have a little respect for everyone else. Otherwise, in the setting of the show, I think they only care that you can fight, forage or make some other positive contribution to the team. If not, you’re a liability.
So my bottom line questions is: would the plot-line have to change if this character was straight instead of gay?
I work next to “Electronic Arts” offices. Most of the employees are severely obese, smoke and are caked with tattoos and body piercings. It looks like halloween every day when you peer towards the smoking areas. Everyone of them are zombies in one way or another.
I don't find implausible storylines entertaining. Silly is OK if they are going for silly, like Mr. Bean, but silly in a drama loses my attention fast.
You tuned into a show with zombies expecting plausibility?
LOL, okay.
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