Don’t dare show a nipple!:
So this complaint doesn’t really have as much to do with The Walking Dead as it has to do with our completely screwed up views as a society, this show just happens to be a great example of this. One of the elements that makes The Walking Dead so good is what also brings to light how messed up things are, it’s incredible special effects. You would be hard pressed to find a movie that has better zombies in it, in fact I bet you couldn’t. The show is especially good at coming up with imaginative crazy ways for the walkers to get killed. From up close and personal head shots, getting squished under objects, getting ripped apart or just plan old getting their heads smashed in by the heel of a boot. There is no end to the intensely detailed ways they come up with to end walkers. I’m sure there is a team of people that sit around all day and just think of messed up ways to kill them. It definitely adds to the show and like it or not creates a realism to what the post apocalypse could be like.
An argument could be made that the special effects used when killing walkers has a longer leash when it comes to what can and can’t be shown. They are (so far as we know, wink, wink) a fictional, already deceased monster, so killing them off even though they use to be humans is easier to accept. I get this part, but it’s not just limited to walkers in the show. They also have no issues with showing humans getting the short end of the stick. From being torn apart, shot, guts ripped out, faces ripped off, body parts being snacked on by a horde of walkers, there doesn’t seem to be much that is taboo when showing a human death either. Hey it’s the zombie apocalypse after all, this stuff is going to happen and I see nothing wrong with it.
Now the fucked up part of all this is that our rating system, and in turn society, is fine with showing all of this on regular tv, but never, under any circumstances, no matter what happens, should they ever show a nipple!! My god if a boob popped out or someone's junk flashed up on the screen the world may end. Kill the feed immediately and cancel the show!
It’s perfectly acceptable to have a scene showing one of the main characters getting torn apart by zombies, or hell having the main characters kill a child, but no matter what no nudity!! Now, so there isn’t any misunderstanding I’m not complaining about the blood and guts in The Walking Dead, or any other tv show for that matter, I really don’t care what they choose to show as long as they are upfront about it. I’m hoping that as a mentally stable adult you should have no problem discerning reality from fantasy and right from wrong. If a tv show sets you off on a murdering rampage I would say that there were much deeper issues present well before a tv was ever turned on. What I am confused about is how we can, in HD detail, show someones head getting mashed in and thats fine, but if you were to see someone nude that is completely unacceptable. I just can’t wrap my head around the thought process behind that. Shit needs to be seriously reevaluated if the general agreement is that showing a nipple is worse than showing brutal murder? It makes me sad for the human race and it scares the hell out of me much more than any zombie ever could.
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