The Walking Dead - A review

The Walking dead. What could be worse than a world completely shut down technologically, and populated with many, many more undead zombies than living humans?

Well, you know that idiot that hangs out by the water cooler all day instead of getting his work done?  The work you'll end up doing because the company has deadlines?  Assuming he survives the initial onslaught of people dying and eating each other, How is he going to behave when it's just you and him with the zombies approaching?  How about all those people who always seem to get into bar fights, even going to bars and getting drunk so they can start them, going to behave when they band together to attempt survival?

On AMC's "The Walking Dead", you find a small group that bands together not just for survival, but for the survival of the kind of ideals that create a civil society.  It's true they have to stoop, maybe just bend to a level none of us ever want to think about getting to, but they have an intrinsic unspoken feeling that if "they" survive, some basic human values have to be preserved when the new society can finally be rebuilt.

So, you have to ask yourself how you would act in these situations.  If you're a Christian or just a person who doesn't believe in violence, how do you reconcile trying to survive with people who wish to climb over your corpse to get theirs?

During the first 5 seasons of the show, The main characters go thorugh many trials for survival and quicly in the show it becomes apparent that the zombies are only a problem in large numbers.  The real evil in the world are the survivors who will take what you have, whether it's shelter, food, or just a stupid stick you are using to keep alive with.  The age-old struggles of power, politics, and wealth all survived the great zombie transformation and it comes down to who has faith and hope in people and God, and who has given up.

Even the heroes in the story, who do not think of themselves as heroes, are finally cornered and stuffed in railroad cars.

Let me say some background.  Rick is the main character.  He was a state trooper in Georgia.  A man of conviction and a family man.  He is injured in the line of duty and is hospitalized.  This happens before the outbreak, so when he finally comes out of his coma, He is like the viewer, completely unaware of what the world is like.  He discovers it as he searches for his family and brings us all along with him.  Of course, terrible things and losses happen to everyone on the show and Rick Grimes is no exception.  The writers have a way of enduring people to us just before sacrificing them to the God of ratings.

At the end of the fourth season, Rick has finally had it with walking the line between being a protector of the people and the leader of his group whom he desperately wants to save.  So, in the railroad car at the end of season four, after all that has happened to them, This happens:

RICK: (looking out a crack in the wall) "These people are going to be very surprised."

DARYL: "At what?"

RICK: "They're screwing with the wrong people!"

I've been binge watching and have seen five seasons.  I can't wait for season six.

THIS IS MY STORY AND I'M STICKING TO IT.