Zombie Cliche Lookout: Taking the Lead
Once again, we’re not sticking too closely to zombie stories but reaching a little wider. In this case, we’re not even looking at tropes in fiction, but things we see in real life. Often, when someone makes a big point about how someone needs to make a decision, they have a pretty good notion of exactly what that decision should be. In fact, sometimes they’re only pointing out the need for a decision to give themselves the opportunity to inject their opinion into the situation.
It goes a little something like this. You’re irritated because no one else is doing anything, even though the solution seems obvious to you. Your frustration mounting, you demand that the group makes some sort of decision. The rest of the group is unable to offer up anything, giving you the opportunity to offer up your idea. Because there aren’t any real alternatives, the group should have no choice but to adopt your plan.
About this Episode:
No stairs in the foreground of any of my shots in this episode, although I can’t make any promises for further episodes (some of which have already been shot, although I don’t recall whether I pulled the foreground object trick in any of them). Sometimes, I think I’m probably a little too over-reliant on some of the little tricks I use to make the photography more interesting. Ah well.
Discussion Question: Forcing Your Opinion
In the zombie cliche lookout, I outlined one way that I’ve seen people inject their opinion into a conversation (a way I’ve probably used myself if I’m being honest). Building on this, I’m wondering what tactics you’ve used to push your ideas on the unwilling public. Come on, you know you’ve done it. Just own up and tell the rest of us your tricks.
Typo alert for today: “no one else it doing anything” it–>is 😀
Fixed. Just one; not bad.
Barb makes a choice that seems fairly logical. The next item on the agenda she’s just created for herself and her newly-founded group of followers is how to go about leaving.
Leaving is obviously going to entail some kind of reconnaissance in order to determine the best way out of the building. Or maybe Dave might pull out the hidden trap-door trope, and have them exit from somewhere underground that just hasn’t been revealed before now. 😀
There’s also the sewers, although given what usually goes down sewers, I’m sure most people with a functioning nose would prefer something less horrible, and Dave has already done sewers in this comic! 😉
I have indeed already done sewers. Don’t worry, we’re not going to retread that ground.
Barb’s choice is of course wrong but being a person of action she feels it is right and this being an action choice comic action must happen and sitting in a building is not action.
For the topic question making bold statements in rapid fire is one way to force your opinion on others. Clarifying them later is how to cement your view.
In this case she wants to leave so she decides too ignoring the fact she has a woman and two kids who can not handle themselves against the zeds and will need to be covered by the others. She wants to leave knowing she had people coming back. Unless some alternate place was confirmed to meet up how are they going to find each other again? She is basically abandoning them. Where are they going to go once they leave? Right now the place is secure and has some supplies. Leaving it means leaving that security and many of their supplies behind to go somewhere else even though she does not know where that will be.
This is not going to end well.
“For the topic question making bold statements in rapid fire is one way to force your opinion on others. Clarifying them later is how to cement your view.”
Oh man, that’s something I’ve done without even realizing it.
I think I use the “you’re right BUT,…” tactic. Adding an indisputable argument or real life illustration is obviously a plus here. Just trying to show the person I’m talking with that 1/ she’s smart and 2/ as smart as she/he is, could be very wrong.
Could take a lot of time and energy though…