(SPOILERS AHEAD!)
I know you need some suspension of disbelief to watch a show about cannibal corpses, but this last episode had such an idiotic plot that you could feel your brain shrink.
So far we saw the characters struggle for survival and fight enemy factions, but now they want to rebuild the world. Fine to me, but it seems that in order to restore civilization, they need to go to a museum and retrieve some obsolete relics.
These objects are an 18-century plow, a western style wagon, and a stone-age canoe.
Can anyone tell me why they need these antiques when there have to be modern versions of those items laying around?
It looks like they travel several miles across zombie infected land to find this museum. Then they pull those things across a glass floor over a pit full of hungry walkers, because it was not dangerous enough already. Obviously, the glass cracks for dramatic effect and they barely survive, but that's only the beginning of their journey home with their cargo of junk.
Long story short one of them dies in the trip, which triggers more conflict in the second half of the episode.
I see they needed that death to advance the plot, but there are no logical reasons they needed these things, let alone risk their lives for them.
They mention they needed the plow "to use as a template to build more". Well, if all you need is a "template" you could have gone to the library and look for books on farming equipment. If I needed a plow the last place I would go looking would be a museum, I'd go to the closest abandoned farm and look for something that's not crumbling to pieces (as the ancient one actually does during transport)
The boat was even dumber because it was not even the kind of advanced canoes the native Americans built, this was a crude wood boat that looked like something a beaver had carved out of a log with his teeth. Unless now it's canon that walkers eat fiberglass, all they needed to do was break into a sports store and pick up a modern lightweight canoe complete with oars... even an electric motor (they are shown charging batteries with solar panels in that same episode)
Finally, the wagon was the most ridiculous item of all, because just minutes before these same people are shown traveling in a modern wagon made of metal with modern suspension and tires. Why did they need one with primitive wooden wheels that would get stuck in the first poodle of mud? (and indeed it does!) We have seen them using welding equipment in previous episodes and there are millions of abandoned cars with wheels all over this universe. Why they needed a "You Have Died of Dysentery" style wagon is a mystery.
I know the quality of the writing has been going down for some seasons now, however, the show used to be relatively realistic within the confines of the unplausible premise of a zombie apocalypse. This last episode felt to me like the plot of a fantasy video game where the characters need to go on a side quest for a three pointless McGuffins.
Anyone feels the same?
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08 Oct 2018 13:58 CEST
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