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The Walking Dead Wants to be Star Trek
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AMC says that the Walking Dead franchise has the potential to last as long as Star Trek has. I have an issue with that. In comparing the Walking Dead's decade of success to the fifty years that Star Trek has been around, I don't have much faith in the franchise's longevity.
But there is a chance. The Walking Dead's narrative exploration of human nature is not worlds apart from what made Star Trek a success, though the underlying structure of the walker world's narrative limits how far the series can go. Can a dying world realistically compare itself to a galaxy brimming with life?
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Zombies… The final frontier.
These are the stories of the outbreak survivors.
Their continuing mission:
To endure this strange new world.
To create new life; new civilizations.
To suffer like no one has suffered before.
During a Goldman Sachs conference, AMC Network President Jo --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/paracosms/support
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But there is a chance. The Walking Dead's narrative exploration of human nature is not worlds apart from what made Star Trek a success, though the underlying structure of the walker world's narrative limits how far the series can go. Can a dying world realistically compare itself to a galaxy brimming with life?
Full Transcript
Zombies… The final frontier.
These are the stories of the outbreak survivors.
Their continuing mission:
To endure this strange new world.
To create new life; new civilizations.
To suffer like no one has suffered before.
During a Goldman Sachs conference, AMC Network President Jo --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/paracosms/support
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