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The whole "Lord of the Flies" angle is pretty much ingrained into any post-apocalyptic story, but if that's all they have going for them then I think they grow tiring pretty quickly. The best post-apocalyptic stuff tends to have societies that the viewers can see are worth protecting and saving because despite the harshness of the world there's a core of good to them... they represent safety and possibility for the return of society. However, when it's just lone good people in a crappy world being hunted and persecuted by the worst of humanity that now reigns supreme then I begin to question what the point is to their existence, and why I really want to watch them suffer constantly.
Good point. I stopped reading the Walking Dead early on, because it just didn't click with me. I love depressing stories ( as demonstrated by my own work, and by my recent obsession with Metal Gear Solid ), but that's either in the context of a story having a sad ENDING, or a story having ups and downs but enough ups to give some sense of hope. With the Walking Dead, everyone's doomed and is just going to get more and more miserable as they approach the end, so where's the surprise?
