Criminals are everywhere
these days—does a week ever go by without someone we know telling us they were
held up, threatened and / or robbed while trying to eat or get a ride home?
It’s scary out there and it doesn’t help walking around with the feeling that
not enough is being done to address the alarming situation. More and more
people seem to think it is perfectly OK and all in a days work to hurt, attack,
threaten and in some cases even end the lives of their fellowmen in exchange
for their gadgets. What have we done to ourselves?
No wonder we love
zombies—they make us shift our priorities a little. Criminals in a world where
it seems police (who may be crooked themselves) have to struggle to take them
down make us all feel so helpless. Bring out the zombies and suddenly, we feel
empowered—suddenly having the license to take out that ax, saw, shotgun, bolo.
In less than 10 weeks, one
of the world’s favorite TV shows, “The Walking Dead” will begin its third
season. According to Fox International Channels
The show “will begin its
international rollout on Monday October 15” (within a few hours of its October
14 debut on AMC in the US). The Philippines is one of the 122 countries in the
international rollout, providing what I imagine to be a decent chunk of the
show’s 200 million international viewers.
It was all madness and
chaos when we left our bedraggled and besieged bunch of survivors. They are
back on the run with Andrea lost and on her own in the melee that wrapped up
season 2. Of course the set up is all ready for two new important
characters—sword-wielding warrior Michonne (Danai Gurira) with her two zombie
“pets” and the mysterious and menacing “Governor” played by British actor David
Morrissey (who I remember best from an episode of Dr. Who, “The Next Doctor.”)
For those who have seen the
season three trailer, you all know about the return of Merle—Daryl Dixon’s
brother. Just when our favorite redneck Daryl was beginning to resolve all his
sibling issues. How Merle got out of that shackled situation in season one,
maybe we’ll find out. Oh Daryl, I wish I could have your back on this one.
The fear of zombies is
apparently something we can face. As a dear friend of mine would tell her
children: “Huwag na kayo matakot sa
multo’t aswang, sa tao kayo matakot.” (Don’t be afraid of monsters, be
afraid of people.)
In the meantime, we’ve
seriously got to figure out a solution to the meanness in our streets.
Photo by Karen Kunawicz, San Diego Comic Con 2012
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