tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4504590244895370431.post4175120760820940616..comments2024-02-05T22:27:54.404-08:00Comments on Eclectic Arcania: I Love The Walking DeadKim Noyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01643573806408986092noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4504590244895370431.post-17485558078215680372011-12-27T03:22:28.886-08:002011-12-27T03:22:28.886-08:00Wow. The author of that passage uses the earth as ...Wow. The author of that passage uses the earth as a metaphor for the humans living on it. We have not only corrupted ourselves, but by an osmotic association, the earth is now us and subsequently suffers the same consequences. Yet the worst of it all is that God is uber pissed off. <br /><br />That is an interesting take on the series, and one of the reasons why the writing is so good; there are many ways to interpret TWD and I also had my own comparisons to make. <br /><br />The last few episodes, where the former family members-now irreversibly zombied-are kept in a barn. That one act of preserving what was and is no more is not merely denial of the process, but it is what we do ourselves with the members of our family who develop Alzheimer's. <br /><br />This latter situation begs the question: at what point do we stop becoming human? Are these people who sit in our own barns (nursing homes), awaiting death without hope of a return to a former state, are they still human? Their frontal and temporal lobes have been affected by the plaques that form and block the impulses of the personality. They look somewhat like the grandmother that used to hold you in her lap and soothe your fears during a thunderstorm, or the father who once took your young hand in traffic in order to protect you. But their voices are strange. They become angry, belligerent, abrasive and abusive--in short, the antithesis of who they were at an earlier date. <br /><br />My own grandmother was afflicted with Alzheimer's and spent the last 5 years of her life in a nursing home. And at one point, I had to stop going because she turned against me and totally rejected me in the voice of a randy sailor on shore leave. <br /><br />I could not shoot the people in the barn either, in memory of who they were for so long. I could resist based on the years of genuine love and companionship that was so unselfishly given that that cancer of the personality has affected every aspect of her demeanor, there remains a level of protectiveness for the past person. <br /><br />I really like your interpretation, and I shall keep it in mind as the series progresses. mark it on your calendar: February 12, 2012 is the next broadcast date. And thanks for listening. :-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18332697429257972508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4504590244895370431.post-2376774646007613452011-12-18T22:53:53.467-08:002011-12-18T22:53:53.467-08:00Lin, I 100% agree with you. However, I would add t...Lin, I 100% agree with you. However, I would add that there is a new element in the mix that runs even deeper and whose source is not from within Mankind but God Himself witnessing through His Spirit that He is nearly finished watching this train wreck we have created on His Earth and on His time and on His dime. Isaiah 24 comes to mind.Kim Noyeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01643573806408986092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4504590244895370431.post-39567240443859344972011-12-16T06:23:41.458-08:002011-12-16T06:23:41.458-08:00I definitely plan on catching up on this series du...I definitely plan on catching up on this series during the Christmas break of programming, as you are not the first to recommend the AMC offering to me. <br /><br />Dystopian literature has always been with us, in one form or another (Ragnarok, etc,), embedded within all cultures, but with the rise of Science Fiction in the Victorian Age, a new twist occurred to the Shakespearean endings often exhibited. Suddenly, the "inner man" was drawn into the plot. And of course, politics was given a thorough shaking (read Thomas More's "Utopian" 1516, for a foreshadowing of this topic).<br /><br />Fiction was ripe for the atomic age and since the 1950's, we havent' looked back. In fact, the future has never looked more bleak. Zombie fiction is a relatively new arrival and interpretations by critics are only now gaining the attention of the public. <br /><br />But if you think about it, how much of our lives is predetermined? Do we not exist, much like the walking dead? We are told by Madison Avenue what we want, what to buy and how to behave, we take corporate jobs that end in the deconstruction and disconnect of our personalities, and we take drugs in order to fit in with the "norms" of society. Simplicity would demand that those "living" within a zombie dominated society are the rebellious few who think outside the box and live their lives accordingly. <br /><br />Back to the present, I can barely stand to wait to see this series and so I'm off this moment to find them.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18332697429257972508noreply@blogger.com