Six things the hit TV show “The Walking Dead” gets right about a post-apocalypse world
by: JD Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Friday, June 02, 2017
If you’re like me, when you first heard about “how cool” that new “zombie show” The Walking Dead was several years ago when it first began, you shook your head and thought to yourself, “How in the world could anyone watch such nonsense?”
But because a friend was persistent and kept assuring me it was worthwhile television, I finally relented about three seasons in. One evening after work I searched Netflix and found the old episodes dating back to Season 1 and began watching.
I was hooked within the first 20 minutes. In fact, one of the opening scenes — gruesome though it was — broke new ground (for me, anyway) when one of the show’s main characters had to “kill” a child zombie. Cringe-worthy, for sure, but I found the storylines credible and the writing good.
Initially, the show focused on a small group of “unbitten” humans who worked daily to survive the zombie hordes that roamed city streets and the countryside. But as the show is getting ready to enter its 8th season, there have been some major changes to the storyline: For example, surviving “zombies” has taken on a secondary role and is no longer the biggest danger to survivors.
In fact, the biggest danger has become other survivors.
The show has been remarkably accurate in its portrayal of life after an apocalyptic event — though more realistically it won’t be zombies but a global financial collapse, nuclear war, long-term loss of the power grid due to a massive solar storm, etc. And to be sure, life after such an event would be grim. And difficult. And brutal. (RELATED: A ‘Walking Dead’ Scenario: This Is What Cities Will Look Like When Anarchy Hits)
Here are six things I think the show gets exactly right — consider them hard life lessons for real preppers who are committed to surviving whatever ends modern life as we know it:
1. Finding supplies will initially be easy, but then become very difficult. By supplies, I mean basic supplies: Food, water, medicines, clothing… things you need to actually survive from day to day. Following an event that has killed large percentages of Americans, shelter should also be fairly easy to find, and that shouldn’t change. But eventually, you’d run out of readily available supplies because surviving bands of people will steadily pick these easily accessible resources clean.
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