Maybe it’s a good thing that The Walking Dead has no lyrics. Otherwise it might get kind of weird, like sitcom meets modern era weird since a lot of shows no longer have a working theme song with lyrics, at least not in the manner that people were used to in the shows of the past decades. Plus the idea that the lyrics of a theme song could point out the glaring inaccuracies of the show isn’t a good argument to have them in there either. People tend to tune into The Walking Dead to watch the show, not just point out what’s wrong and what’s different from the comic. There are those people that do such a thing, but a lot of us still want to just watch and be entertained.
One thing that can be easily explained is that the zombies are called walkers since in the world that the survivors live in the knowledge of zombies is simply nonexistent. I do recall reading about this in a few different articles that went into great explanation over why the word ‘zombie’ was seemingly forbidden to be used when it came to the show. Not a single person uses the word if you watch through every season. They’re always referred to as something that sounds reasonable or seriously out there in terms of description, but never is the word zombie uttered. To think that a world where movie monsters are still very much a part of pop culture that the walking dead wouldn’t be seen as a natural progression in monster lore is kind of odd really, but that’s how it was designed.
Also, it’s not entirely accurate to say that Rick and his group burn down every place they go to, though it’s kind of hard to argue against as well. Circumstances being what they are in the apocalyptic scene after the outbreak, it’s entirely fair to say that his group has burned down every place. The CDC was blown up by the last surviving scientist after all, and Herschel’s place was burned out of necessity to help the group get away. Of course the kind of backfired since they lost more people on the way out. Terminus was better off being burned to the ground since what they were doing was kind of sick as well as contrary to the survival of the human race really. They were living walkers more or less that hadn’t been infected, so they didn’t really get the benefit of the doubt.
Alexandria is more the fault of Negan since the guy is certifiably psychotic and can’t simply let people live the way they want. Rick isn’t blameless in all this, as he’s made some questionable decisions along the way that got people killed and could have gone either way had he been completely wrong about his choices. But he’s been doing his best really and in a world where your best simply isn’t good enough at times there are bound to be consequences.
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