OT: TV Shows

kmendo88 wrote:

shaygitz wrote:

kmendo88 wrote:


The women are very weak, lackadaisical, and at times they freeze up and become nothing more than burdens. I remember a particular scene where one of the female characters basically gets 'spooked' and is bed ridden for the majority of the time. Like, really?

Well, in fairness she was a 16 year old who had just seen her mother's head get blown off with a shotgun.

Carl is even younger and had to blow his mother's head off himself. He toughed it out, and is emerging as one of the leaders of the group despite being a kid (lol)


Noted: the show is not ageist :D

It's not about the way I would like to see things. Like I said, a lot of these claims stem from how the characters in the show contrast with the characters in the comics. You don't think it's a bit odd that strong, charismatic characters from the comics are reduced to weak, almost supporting roles in the show? In the comic, Tyreese (one of the guys introduced in Season 3) is Rick's right hand man. In the show? He's still pretty unknown. They also introduced characters that didn't exist like Daryl and Merle and gave them leading roles.

Well, if you're arguing the show is racist and sexist because it took the comic and reduced strong female and minority characters to insignificant background players (or eliminated them altogether), that's an entirely different thing. Your original comment was that the show itself had "racist/sexist undertones".

If you want to talk about realism, this show is set rural Georgia. Statistically, the group should be predominantly black as opposed to having a switching off of single black character roles. This isn't even a problem from my perspective, just thought I'd throw that out there for for 'realism' considering you are assuming I'm making unfounded statements.

GA is 59% white and 30% black, so while the group being predominantly black would likewise be out of proportion, half the characters should be black. Except that's never how things work out in real life, is it? And I never said you were making unfounded statements; you expressed an opinion, I honestly thought I might be missing something and asked how you arrived at it. This new information about the comic book explains it to me. Well, except the T-dog thing...