The walking dead amc #2

[Jennasis]

We almost stopped watching the show all together after the first episode and Rick's horse...I shut off the tv as soon as I saw it coming and refused to watch anymore. My cousin begged me to give it another chance, and we started watching again (beginning with episode 2...never did finish episode 1) sometime during season 2.

Kill all the Emily's you want...just leave the animals alone, Kirkman.

 

[deide71]

Okay, I get that y'all love animals and are upset at the shows depiction of the brutality of their deaths. But what about the countless deaths of the people on the show. Innocents and not so innocents alike have been dispatched in really awful ways. The whole show is about the destruction of society as we know it and the way the survivors adapt to the horror and fear they face on a daily basis. This is what makes it so riveting. The protagonists do really terrible things in order to survive. They die abruptly and unexpectedly. Why should horses and dogs be spared when human beings are not?

 

[Jennasis]

Okay, I get that y'all love animals and are upset at the shows depiction of the brutality of their deaths. But what about the countless deaths of the people on the show. Innocents and not so innocents alike have been dispatched in really awful ways. The whole show is about the destruction of society as we know it and the way the survivors adapt to the horror and fear they face on a daily basis. This is what makes it so riveting. The protagonists do really terrible things in order to survive. They die abruptly and unexpectedly. Why should horses and dogs be spared when human beings are not?

I don't know...but I've felt this way about every movie/show, not just TWD. Probably something to do with being desensitized to human death on screen.

To be fair, if they EVER even considered doing something to baby Judith...well let's just not even go there. Babies and animals are off limits.

 

[BriarfoxinWA]

I don't know...but I've felt this way about every movie/show, not just TWD. Probably something to do with being desensitized to human death on screen.

To be fair, if they EVER even considered doing something to baby Judith...well let's just not even go there. Babies and animals are off limits.

.... and Darryl - he's off limits too!

 

[Mkrop]

Okay, I get that y'all love animals and are upset at the shows depiction of the brutality of their deaths. But what about the countless deaths of the people on the show. Innocents and not so innocents alike have been dispatched in really awful ways. The whole show is about the destruction of society as we know it and the way the survivors adapt to the horror and fear they face on a daily basis. This is what makes it so riveting. The protagonists do really terrible things in order to survive. They die abruptly and unexpectedly. Why should horses and dogs be spared when human beings are not?

yes I dont get all the outcry...this is a bad world they all live in, people and animals are dying and being killed. Did you have the same outrage when Mica and Lizzy died? Kids have died, good people have died, bad people have died, animals have died...it is all part of the show. I am not a horse lover but I am a dog lover and I knew what needed to happen with those dogs.

 

[Jennasis]

yes I dont get all the outcry...this is a bad world they all live in, people and animals are dying and being killed. Did you have the same outrage when Mica and Lizzy died? Kids have died, good people have died, bad people have died, animals have died...it is all part of the show. I am not a horse lover but I am a dog lover and I knew what needed to happen with those dogs.

it's a totally visceral (and somewhat irrational) response. I just don't like them killing off animals (in any show/movie).

 

[Ginny Favers]

Was that a dead horse or a cow that Dale stumbled upon right before he was killed at Hershel's farm?

 

[wdwmom2]

Was that a dead horse or a cow that Dale stumbled upon right before he was killed at Hershel's farm?

If I remember correctly, it was a cow.

 

[APiratesLifeForMe2]

Has anyone else wondered why some things (like chocolate) are on very short supply while others (like beer) are spent like they have endless supply? I suppose it just comes down to what items they have been able to find and bring back. Apparently beer is readily available.

 

[pat fan]

Has anyone else wondered why some things (like chocolate) are on very short supply while others (like beer) are spent like they have endless supply? I suppose it just comes down to what items they have been able to find and bring back. Apparently beer is readily available.

You can make beer (and those bottles on the table at the cocktail party looked like home brew) but you can't make chocolate. Beer also has a longer shelf life than chocolate, especially down south. Beer may be warm, but it's ok and I'm sure there are warehouses of it. Chocolate? Delievered in smaller batches and it melts.

Just like Daryl and finding the moonshine shack. Making beer, moonshine, hard cider etc..none of those are THAT complicated or need any fancy ingredients.

 

[Mkrop]

it's a totally visceral (and somewhat irrational) response. I just don't like them killing off animals (in any show/movie).

I can appreciate that but that is not "realistic" for what the world is like in this show.

 

[LiveYourLife]

Doesn't anyone feel bad for poor "Well Walker" from Season 2??? I mean he was all juicy, prune-y, and boated!!! And the poor fella got ripped in half, then got his head smashed in. I don't know about you all, but that tugged at my heart strings.

 

[Jennasis]

I can appreciate that but that is not "realistic" for what the world is like in this show.

Realistic?? The whole show isn't realistic, LOL. Animals dying is, frankly, quite realistic as is people dying. Doesn't matter the premise of the show/movie...I find it upsetting when an animal is killed off. Sorry I can't explain why any better. It's a turn off to me, that's all. I don't expect others to feel the same. It's my own personal hang up.

 

[yoopermom]

I get it, Jennasis. My best example is "Dances With Wolves", one of the BEST movies I've ever seen, but one I can't rewatch because of those terrible deaths. I was literally borderline hysterical the first time I saw it and didn't know what was coming .

I'm glad TWD isn't realistic, because, really, there's no way a baby would survive with nomad travelers like they've been. Think how filthy dirty, hungry, thirsty she always would be, there would be NO way that she wouldn't be crying and screaming the majority of the time. That would call walkers, and then we all know what would happen....

So I'll enjoy the show as a guilty pleasure, and suspend my disbelief at the door.

Terri

 

[Diznygrl]

A lot of people are super sensitive to watching animals get hurt or die on screen. It's really not all that uncommon, actually. Not really sure I can explain or rationalize it other than saying that's just the the way it is. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that animals are completely innocent in the purest sense of the word, void of the "stain" of humanity. I don't know. I just know that I can't bear it.

 

[yoopermom]

My DH's greatest eye roll is that before I will watch ANY war movie with him (and he just loves them), he has to tell me that no horse is going to be killed. I know how many horse and dog breeds were driven almost to the point of extinction during the world wars in Europe, and it makes me so sad...

Terri

 

[WDWBarb]

It's because animals are innocents. So are babies. If Judith were to go, I would be very, very upset. And in modern society, horrible, cruel things are done to animals - things that if they were done to humans, the perpetrators would be on death row. So I find it more realistic to see such violence towards animals.

It's the same reason that violence towards children is taboo (I walked out of the first few minutes of Face Off years ago and ever since, I always screen movies for violence towards small children), but when the children are say, maybe 10 years older and teenagers, nobody cares if the are being slaughtered like crazy in Scream, or the Friday the 13th movies. Their innocence is gone by that age.

The destruction of innocence is what pulls at our emotions. It's why the writers of TWD continue to use it as an emotional response tool. But it wasn't just tragic, it was horrifying (BOTH times they killed horses).

And Robert Kirkman grew up right in the heart of the Horse Capital of the World. Guess he must have been scared by a horse as a small child.

 

[Jennasis]

I'd like to thank Robert Kirkman for creating such a great show...then kick him in the shins for killing two horses LOL!

 

[lakelandgal70]

A lot of people are super sensitive to watching animals get hurt or die on screen. It's really not all that uncommon, actually. Not really sure I can explain or rationalize it other than saying that's just the the way it is. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that animals are completely innocent in the purest sense of the word, void of the "stain" of humanity. I don't know. I just know that I can't bear it.

This explains it perfectly!

 

[denisem]

I'd like to thank Robert Kirkman for creating such a great show...then kick him in the shins for killing two horses LOL!

I'd aim a little higher...

Seriously, I just got around to watching the Talking Dead today and they mentioned the same horse trainer played a zombie in both the attacks on Rick's horse and poor Buttons. He must be a heck of a trainer to get the horse down with all the background zombies around...