The Walking Dead
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- colin_s0
Yes this is a terrible show but I am still incredibly curious as to the storytelling. I've not read the comics so I don't know how far off they are (I know the kid doesn't die in them though).
What's interesting to me is the show still uses standard hero-story tropes like emphasizing (or trying to) that Rick is the "good guy" and Negan is "bad," but for two or three seasons now the "good guys" have been making decisions that range from morally questionable to outright evil.
I can't really tell what the showrunners are trying to do, what narrative they want to construct or who they want to be considered worth rooting for ... honestly in our fucked up reality it's kind of an interesting thing to watch, because it's as untrustworthy as everything else.
- Negan's the most likeable guy on the show. Everyone else is annoying._niko
- There is no true good and bad, only your team and your survival. Everyone has a motive/angle to survive.ETM
- ^ yeah i understand that, but I can't tell if the show does. Like they seem to want to have that ambiguity but are using stereotypical storytellingcolin_s
- which emphasizes standard protagonist / antagonist concepts, as opposed to like, "the wire" whose execution kept all sides on equal groundcolin_s
- It WAS an interesting thing to watch. Those dynamics have always been there.
"I'm a good guy with morals. But I'm gonna have to kill you to protect my family."Hayzilla