“Rick Grimes 2000”

“So this is like…an elseworlds Walking Dead I guess where aliens are involved and alien technology and so on.

It sort of reads like the kind of fanfic that I don’t love where basically characters and things from The Walking Dead are referenced, and they all have their analogues here, but they are essentially the same. Negan is there, he’s essentially the same, and he’s got a bat, and so on.

I thought, towards the end as things got goofy, that this was going to be some clever story within a story, like a character would be telling this story of the zombie apocalypse to another character or something, it’s obviously not true, but there you have it. Like maybe kids are saying what their parent s told them, so we’re seeing these out there ideas and stories based on what parents told their kids about the whole zombie apocalypse thing.

Then I fell in love with my own explanation, and when it turned out to not be true I was disappointed.

Let that be a lesson: just read passively, kids. “