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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FoxWander" data-source="post: 5390013" data-attributes="member: 1356">Just saw the last episode... <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/erm.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":erm:" title="Erm    :erm:" data-shortname=":erm:" />  So... I guess they are completely diverging  from the comic.  Ok, I can accept that- the comic is rather bleak (to put it mildly) and I have to admit I was really doubting that a direct translation would survive long.  So I'll just accept the show as it's own thing and see how they incorporate the comic storyline while going in their own direction. Looking at it from that point of view I'll probably be able to enjoy it more.    Taking it as separate from the comic, the "drama for drama's sake" I've been harping on isn't so bad I guess.  My main grief has been the divergence from the comic and its drama- but if they're just using the comic as a guideline, then what drama there has been has made sense for the show as it's set up.  I'll still be annoyed if they take it too far, but I can be more accepting if I stop comparing it to the comic.As far as being too too critical when it comes to the actions/decisions of the characters... maybe I'm being too harsh there also.  But it just annoys me when characters do stupid things that you just can't imagine someone in that situation actually doing.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />  When they don't really consider the weird circumstances they're in and act, if not accordingly, then at least intelligently.  This was one of the main complaints people had about Heroes (although in that case it was mainly the writers giving the characters dramatic stupidity to advance the plot-of-the-week).  They hardly ever did things appropriate to someone with those capabilities in that world setting, i.e. I have super powers and I'm in a world where super powers exist- I should consider those aspects when developing my plan.  But then again, normal folk don't sit back and consider how to act in extremely abnormal situations in the same way that gamers do.  And who's to say that even as big a zombie-fic-geek as I am that come the zombipocalypse I wouldn't just completely lose my $*!% like everyone else and wind up zombie-chow too.  But I just really would love a zombie flick that treated the subject right.  Ehh- It's still early in the show yet.  Maybe a little of Darryl will rub off on everyone else.  He may be a bit too quick to bury that pickaxe in someone's head, but he's obviously considered and adapted to the situation. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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