Zombie Cliche Lookout: Never Saw It Coming
There’s usually a pretty clear trajectory in zombie stories. In the early going, when everyone is still adjusting to the zombie menace, many people get overwhelmed and killed. This period is often exacerbated by bad information, denial, and people’s overall inability to adjust quickly to change. We’ll lose the majority of the population during this time. Those who remain are either smart or lucky enough to get by in a zombie filled world. For now, anyway.
Eventually, zombie survival will become the new status quo, and that will introduce a whole new danger: losing your sense of cautiousness. People might survive the big die off only to get a little too comfortable and get killed by dumb luck. It’s always some barely mobile zombie that no one notices that gets our unwary character. They’ll never see it coming.
About this Episode:
I had Cheryl step away from the guys for this episode. I wanted her to tell this little story without making eye contact with the others, especially Sam. Cheryl has a deep sense of regret, and a bit of guilt over what happened to Shannon. She can share the story, but can’t look Sam in the eye while doing so.
Discussion Question: Sam’s Growth
While I may not have been able to respond to the comments in Monday’s episode (sorry about that), I still do read everything you guys post. In reading them, I noticed a pretty interesting discussion taking place about Sam’s personal growth as a survivor, with his ordeal separated from the rest of the group acting as a sort of crucible to make him stronger and more confident. I was really happy to hear this, as this is the sort of thing I was going for in his character arc. It also made me think: what are you guys seeing in other characters? Do they have satisfying growth? Are any of them stagnating?
Typo alerts:
Mouseover text for comic: “I guess we could have warned here. Ah well, hindsight’s 20/20, right?” here–>her 😀 Also, hindsight is more commonly referred to as an exact science, it has nothing to do with your vision, it’s more about how your decisions are painfully either good or bad when looked at after you’ve made them.
Zombie Cliche Lookout, second paragraph, first sentence, after the colon: “loosing your sense” loosing–>losing 😉
Discussion Question: “I was really happy to hear this, as this is the sort of thing I was going for in her character arc.” her–>his You’re talking about Sam here, yet you incorrectly used the female pronoun of “her” when the paragraph this sentence is in is quite clearly all about Sam! 😀
Wow, Dave, work is making you do some crazy typos! As always, fix ’em when you’ve got time to do so! 😀
Also, regarding your workload, have you considered talking to your boss or supervisor about whether or not they can somehow help lessen the burden of your extra duties training up new staff?
Oh, I’m hiring a bunch of people at the moment. It’ll just take a while for everyone to get trained up and comfortable. No biggie.
Remember: never train anyone yourself whenever there’s a nice expensive training course you can send them on! 😀 If your boss or supervisor complains, they obviously aren’t hiring creative accountants who would write such training expenses off against profit gained from training people up! 😉
I think that’s some piece I half-remember from my younger years! Take it for what you will, but with the proverbial grain of salt! 😀
Fixed all. “Hindsight is 20/20” is a phrase that’s commonly used. Might be an American thing.
My guess would be that Sam and Cheryl are your favorite characters as they are evolving through the story. Stew, obvioulsy won’t change a lot now and other are dead…
Can’t wait to see the developpement of the last 4 characters you introduce in the past 50 or so episodes. I think Murphy will be interesting too, mostly because of seeing Sam again.
You’re right about Sam and Cheryl; they are definitely my favorites.