The Walking Dead

[ricco]

ricco, here is a post I made on the old IMDb forum in response to the question 'why do you write?'

As for why I write, I like to tell stories and my speech is a bit hard to understand sometimes, and I'm not used to talking for long long periods so I write. Right now, I have one novel published on kindle, (The Pale Horse), and one other has the rough draft done and is being proofread and various other corrections are being made, and I am starting a third novel. I am jotting down ideas for other novels as I think of them.

Stephen King, in his novel, Salem's Lot, quoted another author who said that 'a novel is a confession to everything by a man who has done nothing'. Very apt in my case. When I read a good novel but especially when I write one, I am actually living the adventures that I never had, but sometimes wish that I did. What this is saying is that a novel serves as wish-fulfilment on the parts of both the writer and the reader. There is much truth to this. In my dull, humdrum life, it is a chance to escape, in my imagination if nowhere else, the sometimes excruciating sameness of my existence.

The board was from the 1994 ABC miniseries The Stand, now on moviechat.org

Makes me think of the Henry David Thoreau quote, "The mass of men lead lives of quite desperation, and go to their grave with song still in them." Probably more true today than when Thoreau wrote it in 1854.

 

[AKguy1985]

Anyone still watching the walking dead?

Yes I brought this thread back from the grave. Many years ago we had a huge walking dead thread. So, only eight episodes remaining til the series finale.

 

[RETOKSQUID]

Nope, havent watched it for at least two years, maybe more. Might have to watch the last few just to see who and what remains in the end.

 

[OKCHunter]

I haven’t watched since Season 6 - it got too “woke” for me. I can only imagine that by now every relationship is interracial and all people are gay, transgender, questioning, etc.

 

[Gadsden]

For the first few seasons I watched it all the time then it started getting way too stupid. The garbage people (I forget what they called themselves) pretty much spelled the end of TWD for me.

 

[RickN]

I stopped watching when they were in the prison. To many stupid mistakes that could get people killed. I know it is a TV drama but it was more than I could handle.

 

[kroberts2131]

I’m pretty well still caught up on it. Just a few shows behind. At this point, I may as well see it through just to see how it ends. I don’t foresee them doing anything else with the show after this though.

 

[turkeyrun]

We quit after Season 6, too woke, show changed.
Never got into all the spin offs. Made it to Season 2 of Fear TWD, trying to get into it.
The others, never seen an episode.

Z Nation was more entertaining, even though, completely comedic stupidity.

 

[dancer4life]

I haven’t seen it since season 10.

 

[TinkerTanker]

I quit in season 6 too. I miss the excitement and discovery of the first two seasons. Now I'm trying to get through 1883 instead. That girl with her retarded narration is starting to tick me off. The rest of it is decent, just slow.