Hello all! Hope you are well. I'm very much looking forward to joining the discussion on here! I have a lot of opinions... I've had difficultly finding fellow fans in real life personally, and my wife unfortunately just can't handle the violence although I can't really blame her lol... I've been a big fan of the show ever since I found the first 3 seasons on Netflix, and my love for it has virtually no end in sight! The only shows that come close to me in terms of quality ATM are Breaking Bad, LOST, Angel, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (with the last two beating the TWD until perhaps the series finale :Grin

To give you just a little information about myself I am a student and currently work at a doggie day care facility, generally fall on the left side of the political spectrum although I'm capable of being convinced otherwise, lover of nature and animals, atheist, gamer, Team Morgan (I'm just assuming this is a thing haha), and an ethical vegan that was very pleased to see a vegetarian in the last episode and in the ZA no less!

Finally, I wanted to say explain why as an atheist and a realist, as well as a fan of television in general, I am so immensely attracted to the TWD. Not only did they actually have a zombie outbreak that was completely plausible since everyone was infected and would turn upon death (don't try and tell me a disease that is only spread through biting would make the world and military fall), but it's also a world that simply doesn't care about your prayers, religious beliefs, or how much you hope something will happen. Pray for guidance and a miracle? Your son gets shot in the chest. Know against all odds that you'll find a missing girl alive and well? She turns up as a zombie. Main characters can die without warning, and hardly anyone has plot armor (except maybe Rick :zombies_lol. There is no larger rhyme nor reason why anything happens, all of it just happens which is similar to the real world IMHO. None of this is to say, of course, that this is a world without hope, peace, and love. These things have existed in the show and will continue to exist for episodes onwards, but they never HAD to come from a belief in a higher power or "destiny."

At its core TWD is about survival, but it is also about living. Living, in my eyes, is about finding connection, banding together, leaning on one another, and making your own family (which needn't include people of blood relation) so that you can perhaps tip the universal scales in your favor as well as make life worth living. All of this is almost perfectly exemplified by TWD, and this is why this show means so much to me.

Hah... Well that was kind of a long introduction! Oh well, I did have some thoughts I needed to get out, and hopefully I didn't bore you. Hope to be chatting with you all soon! Peace.

 

Hah.. Well thank you very much. I have to say though that atheism isn't a religion. It's more like saying you LACK a religion or more specifically a belief in God(s). I simply thought some might appreciate how my position affected my enjoyment of the show.

 

Hah, indeed! Eh... I'll admit that I am curious about the comics, but I worry about starting them at least until after the TV series ends. I do understand that the plot-lines between the two mediums have diverged quite a bit, but I was under the impression that the TV series was still visiting locations and meeting characters that were first revealed in the comics which I would consider slightly spoilerish...