My Writing Week: Issue 13, Year 5
I am currently watching the second series of the fabulously dramatic and horrific The Walking Dead . The cable television show is based on a series of graphic novels. Like Battlestar Galactica, it is played dead straight, there is a dearth of humour. Unlike most Zombie movies, the cast is not full of gung-ho heroes, cowering cowards and moronic zombie bait. I think the writers of this series decided that all such stereotypes would have died during the initial stages of the zombie plague. The cast is full of real people, reacting like real people would to a zombie apocalypse. Each in their own way is tough minded and determined to survive. The group is lead by two police officers and a survivalist. One policeman, Rick Grimes quietly sticks to his morals. His wife and boy are among the group. The second policeman, Shane Walsh was Grimes partner before his coma. Walsh will do anything to survive, especially if there are no witnesses. The sur...