Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/08/29/nbc-wanted-the-walking-dead-b.html
…
5 Likes
Do there have to be zombies? WHAT?
38 Likes
[a procedural in which the two main protagonists would “solve a zombie crime of the week"]
That’s Supernatural or Grimm
16 Likes
Reminds me of the execs who wanted to option a Mort Discworld movie, but without Death. (for those who haven’t read the book, the plot of Mort is “Death takes an apprentice.”)
20 Likes
“a procedural in which the two main protagonists would “solve a zombie crime of the week”"
So iZombie then
17 Likes
How the hell can you have The Walking Dead without the freaking zombies?
19 Likes
Okay, hear me out… what if we made the protagonist a teenage girl… who can see ghosts… and she struggles with her feelings as she comes of age? Oh, and there’s a bomb.
12 Likes
Someone on this very forum, many years ago, stated “network television is for children.” This is correct.
Zombie apocalypse with no zombies.
15 Likes
Instead of Zombies. How about Aliens.
Or Robots?
What about Robot Aliens??!!
6 Likes
For some reason this reminds me of back when I was a stripper, and the audience comment cards said that they enjoyed me dancing naked on stage but they would prefer I stopped dancing, got off the stage and didn’t remove my clothing.
37 Likes
I think it could work with some sort of different worldwide apocalypse-level event. The show is about the survivors more than the zombles after all…
But:
Wait, what?
10 Likes
“And it’ll take place in New York, and each week the cast – and they should all be twenty-somethings, each with a readily distinguishable look and quirky but amiable personality – so, yeah, LIKE zombies, but NOT REALLY zombies, and each episode we see them gather at this trendy little coffee shop…”
17 Likes
Well, their instincts weren’t entirely off. The Walking Dead is kinda lousy (IMHO), and zombies are a huge reason for that.
I for one would much rather watch a show about the ragtag survivors of a civilization-ending virus, asteroid impact or war. Of course TWD was never going to be that show (given the source material), and The Last Man on Earth is a shitty sitcom version of it, but I’d say there’s room for that show, somewhere.
4 Likes
Revolution? Dear god, don’t make another Revolution
8 Likes
They should have combined the two ideas. A procedural where every week the protagonists solve a zombie crime of the week, but without the zombies. I think that’s how we end up with Scooby Doo.
20 Likes
Ghost Zombies! Just think of the savings in the FX budget.
3 Likes
If you ever start to get frustnesia and forget how awful Revolution was, and think “maybe I’ll watch that, seems like a cool idea that would, at the very least, generate some fun imagery” just shatter the glass that is over your emergency copy of Henry’s Quest and enjoy an actually fun and fulfilling realization of the conceit.
4 Likes
That looks like concept art for the fallout series of games 
4 Likes
I’ve never heard of that one. And there are probably other post-apocalypse shows that missed the mark. I’d watch a good one.
1 Like
Easy, just call them zuvembies…
My benchmark for a decent post-disaster series has always been Terry Nation’s 1970s series “Survivors” - especially its first season. Basically, trying to survive would already be dramatic and exciting enough without the main cast needing to degenerate into stupidity every few episodes for cheap drama.
Consider how septic the Walking Dead world would be! Can you even drink from a stream which doesn’t wash through thousands of corpses somewhere? Re-learning the basics would keep them busy for years.
Also, it has been remarked that I am far more nihilistic than most (although I don’t quite agree) and even I find the nihilism of TWD stupid. People did not struggle this much to find meaning in living in pre-industrial society. After a couple of years, most of the people who would have survived would be those with the requisite skill and attitude. Not angsty people who struggle to adapt and still make rookie mistakes.
8 Likes
