Had a chance to re-watch today, and again, I think it was just a really sweet, thoughtful and artistically successful story-within-a-story that was refreshingly surprising in a film/series of this genre.
I watched Wheel of Time recently. A thought that's always interested me: What if some type of apocalypse, whether disease or nuclear war, whatever reduced us to living at a technological level similar to that of the middle ages, simply because we lost the means to mass manufacture goods, or to provide international shipping on the scale we enjoy today, etc.
I wondered specifically what rural life would be like when we've been returned to that level of technology/commerce, but sociologically were past homophobia, racial bigotry, oppressive theocratic govts, etc. And even if we no longer had the infrastructure, raw materials, manufacturing capacity etc to provide certain goods, we'd still retain things like our medical knowledge, for example.
That's always been an intriguing idea to me and no film/tv show had ever really explored it, to my knowledge, and I thought WoT might offer a look at that, given that current timeline represented not only the distant past but the distant future, owing to the cyclical nature of the wheel.
Well, I thought this show might offer something similar, and episode 3 was an example of it, in some ways. Hunting/killing zombies is fun once in a while, but what I really want to see is how people live in that world--how they're affected by the circumstances and how resilient they are at keeping hope/optimism and human relationships alive.
tl/dr: Loved it even more the second time.
