“There’s this part in the movie Medicine Man where Sean Connery says he had the cure for cancer, but he “lost” it. And when his colleague questions him, he says, “Haven’t you ever lost anything, Dr. Bronx? Your purse? Your car keys? It’s rather like that, now you have it, now you don’t.”
Which is pretty hilarious because, sure, I guess losing a cure for CANCER is pretty much the same as setting your keys somewhere and not remembering right away. That’s pretty much the same thing. God knows I’ve misplaced my iPod before. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek8NmpVBssA)
I bring this up with The Walking Dead because I can’t figure out why characters in this world EVER FUCKING TRUST EACH OTHER. Every time it turns bad.They always regret it. It works out once in a while, but for the most part, I think an ounce of caution seems to serve pretty well. I guess they just forget the way Sean Connery just forgot his cancer cure. You know, like how sometimes you forget to turn off the lights before you leave the house.
I won’t go into details, but in this volume a new person shows up, and Carl has a sort of tantrum about how they lock her in a room for a while to make sure she’s cool. And they let her out, providing that Carl keeps an eye on her. See what I did there? An eye? Because his eye got shot out?
Haha, nothing funnier than a kid who got shot in the eye, eh?
Anyway, I just don’t get it. I don’t get why everyone doesn’t say, “Carl, remember how pretty much everyone is trying to kill us ALL THE TIME? Yeah, we’re keeping this girl locked up. She’s got food and water. She’s fine. We just want to do A LITTLE work to see if she’s an insane-o. Like, I don’t know, maybe not give her all the secret info after she’s been here three hours. Is that alright with you, teenage dude who is emotionally unstable?”
Walking Dead definitely does a lot of cool stuff, but I think one horror tradition that’s wearing thin, I really hate how often I’m screaming into the book, embarrassing myself in a Barnes and Noble where I stand and read the books for free (which is why I feel so entitled to complain), because the characters just make so many bad choices. Like a lot of horror movie characters, the people in the Walking Dead make almost exclusively bad decisions. And not just decisions in the heat of a moment or something. Life choices. Or choices about where to stay or not stay. It’s a frustrating trope in movies, but there’s some way in which you can excuse it because, for the most part, when a lady is running away from a chainsaw dude in the forest, it’s the first time this has happened to her. Not so much a common occurrence, I’m told. But in The Walking Dead, they’ve been surviving for years now. They’ve done all this stuff, and they’ve done it successfully enough to survive. They should know better. “