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The Walking Dead Goes To Bartertown


Tonight, on THE WALKING DEAD, Rick and co. appeared to have dropped into the pocket universe wherein the Max Max flicks are set; where characters with weird names and inexpressive faces dressed in black and grey Max Max-like gear stand around and speak through a monotone in clipped, half-sentences as if they've grown up in the aftermath of the nuclear apocalypse and regular conversation is strange to them. Their home is a maze of piled-up car-wrecks and trash that stretches to the horizon--with the whole world at their disposal for residences, they're mindful enough of the series' desire for visuals to live there--and they interact with our heroes while in the distance, a rusty car-door blown by the eternal winds of the wastelands atmospherically squonks away. I never noticed a crow cawing at any point--perhaps an oversight. At one point, Rick is even made to prove himself by fighting against a Medievaled-up zombie in the Garbage Pail equivalent of Thunderdome...

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Mad Max thunderdome was the first thing I blurted out to friends when I saw the new group. Yeah it was a direct homage for sure. What I don't get is why the group all talks so funny. We aren't talking 10-15 years after an apocalypse. It's been only a few years and these are all adults. Not kids who grew up during and had no one to teach them. Lol....Up up up ...Indeed.lol I laughed out loud when she said that. All their names were goofy as well.

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Yes, it's something that shouldn't exist. The writers have been attempting to ape Z NATION on various points since that show appeared. ZN is a crazy syncretistic blender of influences. It has adapted lots of Mad Maxian post-apocalyptic stuff but "adapted" is really the key word there; ZN's creators made that material fit with their own universe, whereas on TWD, this was just pulled from an entirely different one.

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Yes, the lack of expression and weird "speak" bothered me , a lot. Of all the people we have encountered in this universe, these were the MOST cartoonish. Not a fan of this group, however, Pollyanna McIntosh is aces!

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