It's a pet peeve of mine that
TWD, despite apparently being a repetitious, nihilistic bore, gets so much in-depth attention on nerd sites (
io9 especially) while the awesome, hopeful, and ever-evolving
The Last Ship hardly ever gets mentioned. (Full disclosure: I'm a Navy veteran, and I haven't yet seen
Ship's latest S4, so it might have declined from the excellent first three years.) Is it a case of the liberals and libertarians who're drawn to bleak apocalypse scenarios not caring about the Navy? Or are zombies
still so captivating, more than a decade after the craze started, that a show featuring them is automatically worthy of undying nerd attention and love, no matter how mediocre it's been for years and years? I mean, I guess the fact that
TWD has its comics counterpart and spin-off show explains part of the discrepancy, but,
sheesh.
I've never seen
TWD, but there was a time, long ago, when it sounded interesting, and I figured I'd watch it someday, but from all I've heard over the years, it's just an aimless, directionless slog, and if I felt the urge to get an apocalypse fit and my
Y: The Last Man books weren't doing it and that adaptation still hadn't happened, I'd be better off re-watching
The Last Ship. "Honor, Courage, Commitment!"
Hooyah!