The Walking Dead | Season 7 | Episode 2 | The Well [AMC] [SPOILERS]

Dempsey

sonofenoch wrote: »

Iron Mike and his pet Tiger

For those who find walking undead flesh eaters more believable than a bloody tiger on a leash :rolleyes:

Thats a drugged up tiger though

Mellor

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OneOfThem Stumbled wrote: »

I'm finding these episodes away from the action hard to buy. The ones where we see "civilised life".

Food, electricity, housing are all plentiful. The place is spotless, clothes are new, people are all clean. While some of these things are forgiveable (scavenging and whatnot), it's just a bit much to suspend disbelief.

Carol even asks for a tissue at one stage. Are they still manufacturing those things? Surely in this sort of society you'd be using handkerchiefs.

Pomegranates and peaches? Those imported :rolleyes: or home grown, because that's fresh produce. They *can* be grown in places like Ireland and mid Atlantic seaboard in Untied States, but it's pretty damn difficult.

Most people were wearing clothes like jeans: again, are these merely scavenged or produced locally? We are a number of years into the post-apocalyptic setting at this point, can supermarkets and shops still be abundantly stocked?

It would be interesting to see the citizens deal with the problems of production and survival. Hearing home-spun philosophy about violence, national determinism, or individual freedom are tiresome and ill placed. If I hear one more person going on about how they can't take their current predicament, or one more person preaching from their moralistic platform, I cannot be held responsible for what I will do to these screen writers.

The tiger is okay though - taken from zoo or circus and fed on scraps perhaps.

There's thousands of tissues, jeans, etc in shop storerooms. Given most of the population is dead or zombified supply greatly exceeds demand. But they aren't all readily accessible from day 1. A supermarket might have been overrun for 2 years, etc. So supplies are drip fed sporadically as areas clear.

I'm not sure what's unbelievable about fruit. They aren't in the mid atlatic seaboard, they are in the south. Rural areas, so quite possible that there are pre existing fruit trees that produce each year. Fruit is a much more believable source of food than pigs.

Dandelion6

Mellor wrote: »

They aren't in the mid atlatic seaboard, they are in the south.

They started off in the south but then went up to the Northern Virginia suburbs of DC. That's neither south nor seaboard, but most fruits can be grown there.

StringerBell

We are also not really a large number of years, 2 years is it? Maybe a bit longer? I remember the timeline seemed like it must be longer before to me at some point and was told it was 18 months or so after the outbreak

DoozerT6

StringerBell wrote: »

We are also not really a large number of years, 2 years is it? Maybe a bit longer? I remember the timeline seemed like it must be longer before to me at some point and was told it was 18 months or so after the outbreak

^^ this. I know it's been on tv for nearly 7 years, but in their timeline it hasn't been that long. Use Judith as a gauge. How old is she now, just over a year old or so? We haven't seen her walking yet so not much more than that. I know Carl looks a lot older now but we'll just have to suspend our disbelief there. Chandler Riggs has gotten very tall and teenagery, in fact he's now 17, which makes him seem a lot older that the little boy we remember him as in S1.

It's probably only been two years or so since 'it' happened. Realistically, they've probably only been in Alexandria a few months, tops. Beth died very shortly before that (three weeks or so), and Terminus was probably only a matter of a couple of weeks before that.

I know writers can mess with timelines (artistic licence, etc) , but I've always thought of Judith as my timeline gauge whatever age she appears to be in the show, add on another year or so (9 months of pregnancy+a few months at the very start when Lori wasn't pregnant).