Today I take a closer look at the scene left behind in The Walking Dead season 11 episodes 1 & 2.
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—Chapters—
0:00 – Intro
1:03 – Setting up the Scene
2:09 – Looking over the Evidence
12:46 – Piecing Together the Story
20:30 – Final Thoughts
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These are what they could have used as the one off stories for the tales of the walking dead show.
Im not much of a big walking dead fan, But watching your videos about environmental storytelling inspires me to draw stuff like that too :^D
Im currently working on a story that takes like, an apocalyptic state so your vids are really helpful to me🥺🥺❣️
Based on the use of plastic body bags and the sliced throats, it's possible that the people were taken out by the military just before the bombers hit the DC Metro Area. Everything that moved outside of the safe zones was getting cut down before the Military evacuated for Cobalt, and early on, it still wasn't that widely known that you had to take out the brain.
This may have been one of the last "clearing" operations before the bombs fell, the collapsed entrance may have been from the bombs and the suit guy's arm may have been from scavengers.
Thanks for the content! I always love deeper dives into environmental story telling!
im so glad there’s at least one person on youtube that makes cool videos like this 😭 it soothes the void growing inside me as zombie media dwindles
Thanks man I needed something to fall asleep too. Love your videos
My favaouite part of the walking dead was seeing out group go looking for surpplies coming across stuff like this and being like WTF happend here but not able to work it out leaving us to work it out
Thank you
You should check out places like the Gas Station Camp from season 1 the one where Rick comes across the first child walker that was crazy!
This is the one I was waiting for, Ty.💯
I think the greenwood facility, from the ones who live. Would be a great, environmental storytelling video.ep 4, I wasn’t sure if I should come to you with this at first. But then, I noticed the walkers, trapped on the inside. As the building starts the collapse. I don’t feel like they came. From the outside. I was wondering if you can shed some light on it. If you have the chance. I would like to hear your thoughts. Also michonne, basically because you.. mid episode, we’re trying to make a argument to Rick. I bet these guys thought they knew it all to. Made me think of your environmental storytelling.
Hi Ty
Could you do one about the public works building in S2 Ep 10 "18 Miles Out" where they take Randall planning to leave him there.
I think it would be interesting as it looks like some law and order was maintained for a bit of time during the first outbreak during when it went down. It also shows some people living in the school buses. And at somepoint a attack inside the camp.
Great video btw Ty.
As for the “if there is a god…” quote, it’s not uncommon for people of any social stature to end up unhoused, plus if you’re out of work a free place to spend time is the library.
I believe it was potentially a well-read (or even not, as I’m more of a fantasy person myself yet I recognized the quote as something that had been written on the wall of a concentration camp iirc) individual from the tunnels who wrote it, either before or during the fall. If before, then they could have written that in response to numerous things- society as a whole, perhaps mistreatment from people if they were a part of a marginalized community, or for whatever circumstances landed them in the tunnels. If during/after the fall, then obviously responding to the dead coming back to life.
For the corpses, it could be anything from “mercy” kills or a dangerous group rolling through & taking them out to take anything useful- potentially taking advantage of the unrest in the tunnels. Unhoused people can still have food, drugs, weapons, clothes, etc. especially after the fall, considering normal folks could have ended up in the tunnels and might have brought more supplies.
For the briefcase, I feel like it being open could ofc be a simple example of showing the viewers so we can understand the unspoken story, but also I imagine someone wondering what was so important to him, opening it after death, potentially hoping for medication, food, etc… only to disappointingly find cash, something absolutely useless now.
Will you do explorations of places in the Dixon spin off?
the text at 9:53 reads more as someone loosing fate. I.e. someone who once believed in god, probably hoping to be saved from the "demons", losing fate. The "beg for MY forgiveness" part reads as someone scourned by god.
Are you a mind reader? Watching your last video the other day, I had thought to myself that you should do this story. Then figured it was pretty well too cut and dry.
I got to play some zombie extras in this episode, the subway set was absolutely incredible and had a lot of cool details. It was so dark with our masks on that I asked Norman Reedus for the time thinking he was a P.A.
The suit was probably a business man who was trying to leave town with his wealth during the fall and killed
This one seems heavy handed with the messaging
I think the bags imply they are trying to prevent the spread of the virus. This is containment. Military, national guard, cdc, whatever. Some sort of government cleansing operation before the whole “shoot them in the head” thing was figured out.
Going off the depiction of the mural and where everyone is I have a theory.
During the initial days of the apocalypse many people took to the subways as a form of shelter from both the disasters above but also as a way to avoid the weather as we saw.
I believe that the initial group down there was primarily a large homeless community. We only need to look to examples today of area of low commute/use where large numbers of people take shelter in abandoned area with tents and sleeping bags and all ranges of supplies.
Coming down later I could see standard family’s who were not as used to the subway and would stumble upon these homeless survivors who may have been hesitant initially but would take a lot to start with in tho if you have a few initial that’s fine but as you gain more and more upon that… you might find a potential bit of resentment starting to build up between those who has little and survive off little, having to almost squander there supplies out to family’s who had more and consume more.
Then, you throw in the final group. A very wealthy politician or person with maybe an escort of guards – maybe some military guys who were bribed with the money he had.
Again only theory but going off the whole class war. You could probably find that while initially everything started off “ok” as a community, as time went on stuff began to go wrong.
1. The loss of territory to walkers. As more of the homeless and soldiers went out to scout areas and reported them unable to be expanded into, no supplies and such and very likely potentially lost to the walkers, you’d find a resentment starting to build as danger began to close in and potentially “leaders” for each of the groups began to disappear/die off.
2. Low supplies, large population and potential unequal favour being shown between groups.
You would likely find that any hired guards, ex-military and so on would likely begin to take control and split up resources. And being that while maybe some of the families brought some down the majority of it would belong to the main homeless faction down low.
As such resources would be take and distributed amongst the “community” and you’d likely find potential bias being favoured away from the poorer group.
3. Growing resentment could also happen between a community of completely different societal norms and I would not be surprised if those initially down there began to resent on those now stepping down upon them as new rulers.
As for the body bags, I suspect that it may come from either:
1. The community down there initially already done this from the initial start of the outbreak, cutting people’s necks as to keep the silence of the tunnels and to avoid attracting other mobs, but also the plastic as to stop people biting them – you may find they may have been a bigger community or learned this the hard way from early experiences of people passing away for whatever reason down there with them.
2. Could be the ex-military guards or such brought them and passed the idea onto the group as to how they were initially supposed to handle walkers and the dead before turning.
As for the fall?
Well I could easily see it as being a growing resentment against the leadership and a boiling point reached by a certain group initially part of the initial group down there which lead to them killing the people who came down to join them.
Being they would likely have more senior jobs over the basic civilians being that they’d have more “survival” skills, I could see them mercing many of these people during the night with the body bags used to be able to transport them after slitting their throats an to prevent bites.
Would also explain the dead guy in a sleeping bag as you likely could of had him shot by anyone – could have been one of the rich guys guards just executed in his sack while they’d execute him for maybe being one of the vocal leaders for the “better off people” in the group.
I could see this as also being true as vast majority of the people we see in the bags mainly seem to be of a more well off type of family and the occasional still walking walkers of a more scruffy like appearance