ZOMBIE10, eh?
Maybe down to the imminence of Series 6 of The Walking Dead on Fox - ooooh, I'm almost nauseous with anticipation and simultaneous fear that they will fuck it up at last - that now there will be so many opinions of how the story should continue that the producers will literally lose the plot in amongst trying to please too many people but also, because AMC will continue to court greater success, the opinions of those people whose main motivation for watching it is fear of being thought out of touch, ie those latecomers whose positivity underpins the budget and yet is most fickle, will end up being given far more weight than those fans who have watched it because, for the most part, the plot and production thereof have been a consistently high octane version of the raison d'etre of zombie films per se, ie a scathing satire of the society from which the main protagonists emerge and more fundamentally, consumerism. One thing we can know for sure about the fickle enthusiasm of those who base their viewing habits on which lifestyle commentators approve of what shows: they have most certainly bought into modern western society and, even if they don't know it, consumerism is their credo. AMC may very well feel the need for a 'Lost-ian'* plot device aimed at making sense to, and appeasing, middle-America...
I fear that Gahd, and possibly Jeheezus, may yet rear their ugly heads as simultaneously the cause and salvation from the TWD apocalypse...
And whilst I take the point that prima facie this may seem like another of my massively off topic rants, being as it is in a thread about current airsoft bargains, I ask you to consider how much a part of the wider airsoft community is being energised by Zombie Experience days/evenings/weekenders and how much of a nose dive said will take if AMC do manage to fuck up TWD; how much more favourably AMC are likely to be looking on the lowest common denominator of viewers, given that they now have their new global channel to which they must needs garner viewers and, perhaps more importantly, advertisers; and speculate with me, if ye will, how much these converging factors have already/may yet affect the price of cheap pistols and shotguns... how much is an ASG MK23 these days? £25 from TWG innit?
*By all means, go right ahead! :lol:
[any and all rounds of applause for stylish recovery gratefully accepted]