Wasn't Rick shot in the stomach? But after the climax, they showed Michonne in a bed recovering, but he was fine sitting next to her. Then he's standing on a stage of pallets talking to the crowd... was it a grazing wound or something?
Secondly, why do the trash people talk like cavemen. I hate it. Do they all have learning disabilities? ESL?
The trash people talk like that because we're three decades into the zombie apocalypse and people have lost all social skills and any semblance of western civilisation.
Oh wait, no it isn't. It's only a few years into the zombie apocalypse and Deborah from accounts has started talking weird because... because BAD FUCKING WRITING!!
Yes... Shyamalan's Village also had this problem because they had people talking from another century simply to facilitate the plot twist. We know from Carl and Judith's aging how much time has elapsed... it would maybe make sense if it were a group of feral children like The Blue Lagoon or the Lord of the Flies, but these are fully grown adults who have no business talking like that unless it turns out they are role playing like Ezekiel. Who knows, maybe the writers will wake up and right this stupidity next season by explaining they were a group of LARPers who escaped from a mental institution... but short of that it is indeed simply bad writing.
shareIn Shyamalan's Village, there were indications very early on that they were in the present day. In that film, they were teaching their kids to speak as if they were in the 19th century. When the film started, they seemed to be about 20 years into the Village Experiment.
I agree, the trash people speaking in truncated sentences seems mighty peculiar. I can see ONE person speaking that way-- as an odd affectation--- like how King Ezekiel speaks in Shakespearean iambic pentameter. But having ALL the trash people speak that way is incomprehensible. I mean, did they have a meeting when they all decided to speak with only nouns and verbs? When they decide they want to relax, do they break out into complete sentences?
I remember they came from an American Studies department, but it seemed like everyone talked in a period way that seemed mostly designed to throw off the audience. I'll have to watch it again but I remember it rang falsely back when I first saw it... Unlike many, I actually enjoyed The Village but that flaw spoiled it for me a bit.
shareI actually enjoy the film a lot. I can't understand why people feel the need to eviscerate Shymalan's later work. I even liked the Happening, although that was panned by critics. What do they know?
shareI agree 👍🏻
shareI think people expected a traditional twist film as well as a horror film which it wasn't. Shyamalan doesn't see his twists as that but as revelations, like when you read a book/story. I liked the film too btw.
shareThis isn't similar to The Village at all. The adults were all hippies who decided to embrace a simpler 19th century lifestyle including clothes, technology, and language. The children were raised in such constructed culture got 30-40 years, that's all they know. Just like all we know today is 2017 lifestyle or earlier, we have no idea how people 100 years from now will live.
share@painbow - HAHAHHAHHA brilliant answer!
sharePerhaps the Trash people are mimicking their nutty leader's speech pattern. Talk and act like her or you're kicked out.
share1. probably flesh wound
2. we are all wondering why they talk like that - someone proposed they may all have been foreigners? but it's silly even then
It was so off putting my husband and I stopped watching for over a month? We only came back when I was informed they were gone, which may or may not be true. I have never used the term jump the shark until that episode. Liked what came after, but that was just horrid.
shareit was, the entire season was sadly, less than perfect
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Probably just grazed him...
I agree, it's weired -
she did explain how they went on through stages as a collective group (being ok, something new happened, changing, fearing, adapting etc...) though. So maybe they sort of went "get-down-to-the-raw-basics-mass-hysteria-insane" (picture them all huddles in their dark caves, all depressed and scared and just comunicating when absolutely necessary going "castaway-crazy") and over time started to talk that way too. Only thing that I could think off 🤔
"Secondly, why do the trash people talk like cavemen. I hate it. Do they all have learning disabilities? ESL?"
Bugged the living shit out of me. That and their leader's piss pot hairstyle.
"was it a grazing wound or something?"
As I recall--and I wouldn't count on this--he was shot in the hip. But people have been magically recovering from horrendous wounds in virtually no time throughout the series.
"Secondly, why do the trash people talk like cavemen. I hate it. Do they all have learning disabilities? ESL?"
As others have already noted, it's for the same reason people recover from wounds almost instantly: really, really bad writing. In the case of the Garbage People though, I excuse it, because while utterly stupid, things like that--basically lifting from Z NATION but entirely misunderstanding why it works for ZN--make TWD much more entertaining.
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Hip? I thought he was shot on his side and was not that serious.
shareLol! They remind me somewhat of Desert Mad Max characters.
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