The Walking Dead

Like many in the class, I had never seen an episode of The Walking Dead before, or read the graphic novel.  I had no idea that the show was even based on a graphic novel.  Although I love watching scary movies, I had never been interested in a show about zombies for some reason.  Maybe I was turned off by the sci-fi-ish feel to it, or had just not fully understood its popular hype and failed to get hooked on it.  However, I was impressed by the way that the show presented this particular apocalyptic scenario.  It is scary enough imagining flesh eating zombies taking over society, but being stranded without friends and family is another fate entirely.  The fact of this scenario actually happening is of course slim, but it still represented a horrific situation, and was definitely thought-provoking.  In an apocalyptic world, the thought of police officers and law enforcers having little power to defend or protect is also a scary concept for me, and this is very much relevant in both the graphic novel and the show.  Humans being unable to protect themselves, and being so susceptible to horrific fates is unsettling.