PeonForHer
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There are so many "is Daryl gay" articles out there. LP, now then. Are you indicating that you have *read* such articles? Hell's bells, aren't we entering obsessive territory, here? Well, whatever the truth about Darryl, he is, and has always been, a bomb waiting to explode. There's a ton of stuff that could happen with his back-story. Lordy, you know ... after all this time, this show gives no sign whatsoever that it's tiring. There could have been so many ways in which it could have gone stale ... but it's nowhere near stale. In a way, that's surprising to me: scriptwriters have screwed up before with even the best of premises. Do you remember 'V' - the remake? Aliens land on Earth, are actually reptiles looking for food (and humans fit the bill) but manage to pass themselves off as benevolent. You might think 'How could scriptwriters fuck up a premise that good?' But they did. They turned it into yet another tedious soap-opera about love and families. It was all repulsive teenagers snogging and weeping, with the producers assuming that we'd all care about said teenagers, though all the while we just wanted to see them killed. God, I hate it when a series starts to zero in on the Romeo and Juliet theme. I cannot dredge up the slightest ability to give a swivelling one about teenagers and their romances and really, really don't give a flying rat's arse if their True Love is Realised, or if they both get machine-gunned out of their - and our - misery. In short, the V series' bosses made an absolute brainless, mushy, bollocks of it. Perhaps they got too scared of stepping outside The Formula. No surprise that it wasn't signed for a second series. Well, that clearly hasn't happened with TWD. The makers avoid stale old stereotypes like the plague, it seems. Good for them. I think I knew that TWD would be ace the moment that Maggie and Glenn got together. A Chinese-looking bloke and an all-American, big-eyed, strong-toothed American lass - *that* was new. 'Right', I thought, 'This show has some guts'.
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