I kind of hate how they made the story a soap opera, but one thing I can appreciate about the show it that it keeps the theme from the comic that zombies are not the main problem.
It's just a cavalcade of awful, shitty, terrible and petty decisions that are the main reason they keep going in circles.
I think the melodrama really detracts from the parallels it tries to make about modern society.
I can see their trying, but it get so hammy at points.
Daily reminder that Bethesda should just open source the Fallout 4 engine so we can make the an actual post apocalyptic adventure about survival and restorration and not just a murder engine with poorly written characters with a senseless plot.
@BrokenBiscuit People don't learn. That's why western societies keep going in circles while a handful of people benefit.
For example, white people are getting decimated by opiods and they can't get treatment because their parents voted for harsh drug laws pushed from the last conservative they elected.
And yet they elect another conservative that is literally trying to dismantle healthcare, the exact opposite of what they need to survive.
@ansugeisler@brainblasted In that context, yes, I can understand how the lack of introspection can make them unhappy, but framing that as the human brain is a 'misery engine' strikes me as hyperbolic.
People in these social spaces of extreme privilege aren't expected to grow and learn, which of course leads to their own profound lack of fulfillment.
Indya Moore, on the red carpet accepting an award for best cover for Elle Magazine.
Their earrings have the photos of the sixteen black trans women that have been murdered this year, carrying a photo of the seventeenth and most recently known at the time of the event.
We are currently (at time of redraft) at nineteen.
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