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RESPECT THE WALKING DEAD
This missive is my verbal lashing at the tone on the above article...
I have read several articles that suggest that The Walking Dead is aimless and that if the producers would do 'this and that' then the show would be more relatable... even though The Walking Dead is the number one drama on TV and its fans are ravenous zombies who cannot get enough of The Walking Dead content... and sit right there in front of their TV's every Sunday night -- even during a NFL game!
I will confess this about myself -- I am not embarrassed to confess that I will forgo an hour, perhaps two hours, to watch The Walking Dead during football season... even during a Dallas Cowboys game. That is how much I LOVE The Walking Dead.
And, after each episode of The Walking Dead, Chris Hardwick host a live recap show called The Talking Dead. He usually has three guests on the couch and usually two of them are actors from the show. The third is usually a producer or the creator of The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkland himself, or perhaps the genius make-up artist/special effects producer Greg Nicotero will drop by and give his incredible insights into the awesomeness of the show.
Something in journalism really pisses me off these days... and that is the me-me-me attitude and mindset that this new generation of writers bring to their articles. I grow weary of reviewers and bloggers and radio show hosts and writers who place as the point of view of their articles THEIR myopic viewpoint, as in... ‘if I don't like it then nobody should like it...’ disregarding the fact that there are 6 billion people on this planet, all with a different viewpoint of thought about the same subject.
This selfish way of thinking really bugs the hell out of me. If you do not like The Walking Dead... that is perfectly fine. But if you are writing about the show, make sure you show respect to the millions of people who LOVE The Walking Dead. Remember the fact that those people are the millions of fans who will not give you respect when they read your me-me-me point of view!
And believe me... even if you do not respect the show... you want anybody to read your writing. Why would you spend your time writing an article that offends the fans and alienates you from the very fans who would remotely be interested in your written work in the first place. Kind of silly, right?
“Think before you write,” that is what I say. And if you mean what you write when you write it, then critiques like mine should mean nothing to you and all the stuff I just wrote is moot. But again, you should consider the fact that just because you do not like something... there are millions, maybe tens of millions or hundreds of millions, of people who DO like it.
Remember that because you want those fans to at least tune you in enough to give you their attention without thinking that you are a joke.
RLJ
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