The Walking Dead Wants to be Star Trek

AMC says that the Walking Dead franchise has the potential to last as long as Star Trek has. I have an issue with that. In comparing the Walking Dead's decade of success to the fifty years that Star Trek has been around, I don't have much faith in the franchise's longevity. But there is a chance. The Walking Dead's narrative exploration of human nature is not worlds apart from what made Star Trek a success, though the underlying structure of the walker world's narrative limits how far the series can go. Can a dying world realistically compare itself to a galaxy brimming with life? Full Transcript Zombies… The final frontier. These are the stories of the outbreak survivors. Their continuing mission: To endure this strange new world. To create new life; new civilizations. To suffer like no one has suffered before. During a Goldman Sachs conference, AMC Network President Jo

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The Walking Dead Wants to be Star Trek is an episode from Paracosms: Know Your Fiction by Arthur McMahon.

This episode is 00:15:32 long.

This episode was published on Feb 2, 2017.

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