Ferguson—or the Walking Dead?

Nobody Flashes

If you didn’t see last night’s episode of The Walking Dead, you won’t know the scene I’m going to talk about. I couldn’t find it on Youtube, so a quick summation:

Sheriff Rick, has captured three cops…and one of the cop prisoners sweet talks the girl that is keeping his guard and then escapes, by knocking her out…and starts running.  He is still in handcuffs (probably plastic ones because lord knows, in the Apocalypse Zombie world, real ones are hard to come by) and he’s running down the street, being chased by zombies.

Sheriff Rick, is a fair man, and a man who won’t hesitate to make decisions— jumps in a cop car, (left there by the prisoner) and follows the man…he turns on the speaker on in the cop car and tells him to STOP!

The prisoner keeps running, down the middle of the street, a habit that ALL actors and movie writers love to put into their scripts. You, the audience are yelling, “Don’t go down the middle of the street you moron! GET OFF THE ROAD!” But do they ever listen? No.

It never ends well….not in real life either. Nobody thinks they do this so that YOU, the audience will be screaming in your seats about the absurdity of running down the middle of the road, but then, that’s great entertainment to them. What can you do?

So, in this great scene— after ordering the man to stop about TRHEE times, Rick hits him hard with the car, and it’s sweet, because this guy get BAMMED down to the payment by the front fender and we are happy, because this guy is a lying scum.

Rick gets out of the car, and walks up to him and says, “ALL you had to do was stop. It didn’t have to be like this.” Or something to that effect…and the guy starts lying and trying to sweet talk Rick…and Rick…

Shoots him in the head.

There you go. If that wasn’t a Ferguson lesson in “Do what the cop says.” I don’t know what is.

More than likely they wrote this script long before Ferguson, but the timing of the episode was…perfect.

Now, if they would just stop obsessing about having to make Darrell gay,(Another macho guy ) or put a “gay” in the script we’d all be happier.

They can’t make him gay—it would affect the merchandizing BIG time.

Anyway, I only watch this show because it’s my husband favorite on TV…and it’s beating out Football.

Do you really think The Walking Dead fans even CARE that the Rams players came out in protest with their hands up?

Nope. We are ALL…Sheriff Rick Grimes. The new John Wayne…too much fun.

December 1, 2014 - Posted by Joyanna Adams | Entertainers | American Culture, The Walking Dead