The truth is out there

 

I am curious to see this show but I have one reservation that hopefully will be explained in the new series.

Based on the trailer it appears that this community is 9k plus and it appears to be highly functional and pretty close to the "old world" as possible. Damn near looks like a pocket of preserved life.

Now since the show is 10 years in, and Alexandria, Hilltop, and Oceanside are also roughly 10 years in and they look like colonial America. It kind of shits on what Rick and our group was able to accomplish.

Like we watched this group start from nothing and build these communities up so much that we have to be impressed. Then we see this new place that is much further along in the same time period, kind of makes what our group accomplished very unimpressive.

I hope they explain that this was basically a large town that wasn't bombed and just built a fence and didn't have to start off in the woods in tents. Basically a larger version of Alexandria with thousands of people from the start.

 

That honestly was one of the worst trailers I have ever seen.

 

Yea, I don't think it really got me excited as much as it just made me ask a bunch of questions. Like I'm not all hyped up to see it, but I'll watch because I'm curious. If that makes sense.

Actually it'll probably be a 6 episode season, so I'll just binge watch it.

 

Yeah the only good thing is that it is going to be a lot shorter season so maybe they can manage to have a little bit more concise storytelling than they generally do in these 16 episode seasons.

But in anycase I really am starting to feel like AMC is losing their grip on this franchise. After all this trailer was released just about a week ago or so about teens living in a zombie apocalypse. I don't think there Is any question which story looks better.



I think AMC needs to start taking notes from NaughtyDog on how to write stories within a zombie apocalypse. Even if you still like the original show they are merely adapting already existing material in that show. Watching new TWD content like this doesn't give much hope to the regular show once it has to start creating its own original stuff.

 

I'll just talk about the story here in my post and not get into my current feelings about the franchise as a whole again.

It does seem extremely odd that this show is taking place right around the same time the main show is currently at. At first when I saw all those scenes of the characters just acting like normal school kids I thought we were being shown flashbacks but when it became clear it was happening present day a decade into the apocalypse it was really jarring. It really doesn't make it seem like it is all taking place in the same universe. You'd think that if there were communities that well off to the point to where they were able to have kids live the life of normal kids the people in the Alexandria communities would have heard about them. It's not like all these groups are located on separate continents or anything. And there is not just one but supposedly three of these large scale communities.

Add to that unless all these people just stayed in their homes and huge walls were built up all around them I don't see how their societies recovered that quickly. THe ending of the comic showed a society where they had managed to recover to a degree but they were still living like people of the Old West and that took place almost three decades into the apocalypse. With this show we are on the same timeline as the other shows and somehow, someway these people in this new show are living like it is 1997. I won't at all be surprised if we start watching the show and these people have telephones or a form of the internet.

Honestly AMC should have done what the comic did and if they wanted to show a highly functioning society like this they should have jumped in time several decades from where the shows currently are at.

I watched a couple reviews of the trailer and they all said it seems like AMC is aiming the new show at a different demographic from who is currently watching the franchise and I agree with that. I think they are trying to attract more of the teenage crowd with this show. Only problem is if they try to morph a Walking Dead show into the type of show teenagers are currently watching you lose the essence of what a post apocalyptic show is about.

I remember back in about 2017 when Sony released the second Last of Us 2 trailer where the female character got her arm smashed by a hammer and it received some criticism for being overly violent. Sony responded to the criticism by saying Last of Us are games made for adults meant to be played by adults and people who don't like violent games shouldn't play them. Unfortunately it seems AMC is taking the opposite approach to its zombie apocalypse franchise than Sony is.

 

You did a better job explaining my feelings than I did, and I agree 100%. By having such a "modern" community, it just looks out of place. I mean technically it looks more realistic to what would actually happen in that world, but either way it just makes it look like it's taking place in a different universe. If anything it just makes the other groups early decisions look that much dumber. I mean sure the world ended, but to go live in tents out in the woods just seemed like a stupid idea when there are houses, warehouses, large buildings, and other locations that make much more sense.

I also agree with Last of Us. I think that first game was an amazing way to tell a story set in a zombie apocalypse. Basically take a character driven story about love and hate, relationships and loss, and set it in that type of world. Instead of creating the world and telling a story around it.

 

Oh yea I'll give it a shot. Depending on when it is released, I might binge it though.