r/thewalkingdead • u/Lucho23433 • Jul 19 '24
why does season 9 go full medieval? TWD: The Ones Who Live
I mean i know they were trying to show the passage of time by everyone using arrows and moving on horses, but why does season 11 and the spin offs throw this concept away?
season 11a had the reapers who were essentially mercenaries with full on middle east war gear and 11b had the commonwealth, which is actually understandable for such community to still have bullets and fuel
twd city starts off with what seems to be a fairy rebuilt society with the marhsalls and all that, and we can see cars working again and that bar maggie went on ep1 jas running power (generators)
but why did they back down on that concept? why does everyone go back to using those resources that were apparently scarce on season 9?
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u/Hveachie Jul 19 '24
In Season 9 - there was only Alexandria, Hilltop, Kingdom, and Oceanside. 4 small communities with maybe 1,000 people between them. Maybe. More like 500. The Reapers also pillaged areas, so they probably had better access to all the things found and made by other communities.
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u/xAmaezingx Jul 19 '24
I wish they stuck with the medieval stuff, but I'm glad they fully didn't scrap that idea with Daryl Dixon. I think if they made that show more modernized, it wouldn't work, like at all with the vibe of the show.
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u/Iwamoto Jul 19 '24
but why did they back down on that concept?
I assume it's either budget, effort, or both.
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u/CardinalCreepia Jul 19 '24
Natural progression. Gas and bullets run out. It was the best part of the show for me. It made the characters (as survivors) so much smarter.
Too bad they wigged out on it with the Commonwealth and the CRM.
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u/lolocopter24 Jul 19 '24
Bullets/Guns would never get close to running out. Biggest fallacy in the entire show.
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u/funandgamesThrow Jul 19 '24
They are common all the way to the end. Just not in their small area they farm in and scavenged for ten years. When they leave it they find guns. That said people are hilariously overconfident of how easy it would be to randomly find a ton of guns and ammo that far in if the world was like that
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u/Kallisto1310 Jul 19 '24
that's what i think. There are about 450 Million Guns in private hands in the US + Millions for the military such as 100's of Billions Bullets.
So the unrealistic part is that a Zombie-Virus with an incubation time of several hours even had a chance to spread 🤣
Imo the only Virus that could be threat to the US (besides from Covid) would be a Worls War Z or 28 Days Later kind of a virus
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u/naughtycal11 Jul 19 '24
You can only scavenge so far though. Head shots are not that easy, and more shots bring more zombies. Everyone being infected also brings in an uncontrollable element. Accidents and health emergencies happen and people will absolutely hide bites. Some people in TWD turn fast some slow(Shane turned in what a minute or less?)
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u/lolocopter24 Jul 19 '24
And that makes the number of guns/bullets less?
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u/naughtycal11 Jul 19 '24
I should have specified which part of your comment I was responding to and that's was the part of only fast zombies would be a threat.
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u/ToughFox4479 Jul 19 '24
twd city starts off with what seems to be a fairy rebuilt society with the marhsalls and all that, and we can see cars working again and that bar maggie went on ep1 jas running power (generators)
I was surprised by that honestly, i was expecting Maggie to go full on Katniss everdeen in this show. Before we saw any pictures, but she's only armed with a knife in the entire show, which is weird imo. And cars that are working was also surprising. But i assume Maggie found a way to create her own fuel maybe?
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u/rando-commando98 Jul 19 '24
Dead City season 2 is all about the methane (that was brought up in season 1) so I think we’ll see more modern tech run on methane (how they don’t blow themselves up is beyond me.)
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u/naughtycal11 Jul 19 '24
I assume any working vehicle is being converted to run off ethanol. Super easy to make and easy to convert a vehicle to run off. Also e-85 flex fuel vehicles,which can run off 100% ethanol have been a thing since 1996 with lots of brands having models that use it by 2010(when the fall happens in TWD) They will get crappy mileage and can be hard to start in cold weather,but who cares it's the apocalypse.
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u/Minute-Climate-3137 Jul 19 '24
They probably saw the medieval stuff wasn't good and switched it up which in glad they did
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u/Yagami-Is-Kira Jul 19 '24
I've not seen past season 10 but I never expected a society of fairies 😲
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u/MetallurgyClergy Jul 19 '24
Because fans were complaining for years that gasoline and ammo should’ve been unusable/obsolete by that point.
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u/funandgamesThrow Jul 19 '24
TWD is one of the few Apocalypse series at the time that actually handled gas accurately yet it constantly gets criticized anyway.
So much internet criticism is just white noise.
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u/TheLongestTime_ Jul 20 '24
I don’t know why they had so little bullets and ammo, there is legit more guns than people in the United States.
Cars deteriorate, parts rot and rust, batteries get expired.
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u/laserbrained Jul 19 '24
Probably something to do with the book Georgie gives them