The offices where Abraham and Sasha stay while waiting on Daryl. Abraham finds that uniform and all those weapons. That was a good environmental storytelling episode.
I'm thinking that originally, it was probably the owner of the Mini Mart, and his family who stayed there. They ran out of supplies after a while, and after some time, one of them died, likely from starvation. They turned, and tore into the others, and the ones who got away made it up to the roof. I think the surviving chained zombie was bit and shot in the store itself, but died from blood loss. He wasn't put down because they didn't realize you come back no matter how you die, they may have assumed the original zombie got bit somehow. The couple put the others out of their misery and committed suicide before the zombie reanimated.
I always thought the mini Mart was an homage to dawn of the dead, as it has the same circumstances and sign on the roof, heck even the telescope was featured in the movie.
Funny, tbis reminded me of the Macon pharmacy from the TellTale game, a glimpse of what mughtve happened, had the group not packed up, and headed to the motel.
@@Swell-Films 7:38 you write, "When the dead begins to walk the earth.." sounds like a snippet from a phrase said at one time in all of the Dawn of the Dead movies. Vaguely it went something like "When hell gets too crowded...the dead will begin to walk the earth," or something like that.
3:08. Under such dire, dire circumstances notice the penmanship of the sign "SAVE US." With death and dying and a horde of monsters all about including friends and relatives, I would have written that sign in the shakiest of hands! Note the left and margins are perfectly set and measured from the roof ledge. The spaces between letters and words are perfectly proportional. The pressure of the paint is evenly distributed and uniform. Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn could not have done a better job of whitewashing on a picket fence on a mid summer's day after tea than this person who was under constant pressure from an encroaching hell of rotten corpses. Note the tops and bottoms of the individual letters seem almost written with a straight edge. Me? My hand would have been so unsteady and the result would have been so creepy that I could have copyrighted the result as the Walking Dead font! Wow! The above must be sans-serif or something? Anyway kudos for penmanship under pressure, and getting all the measurements lined up and right and not smearing paint/chalk. Also, is there some kind of religious symbolism here? "SAVE US" is written just above the brown access door to the floors below. With the SAVE US sign above it, and it is left slightly open it looks like a big book. The Bible perhaps? Then there's the preacher man standing next to it all. Perhaps praying "Yea though I walk through the valley (or roof) of the walking dead I will fear no evil, nor walkers." One soundtrack you probably could never use in this situation is the song written by Carol King and hubby Gerry Goffin "Up on the Roof"
I love when they show abandoned towns in the show and it makes it more interesting and scary what people were doing at the time. Plus getting trapped in a store can be good and bad at the same time for example look at Dawn of the dead 2004 but every time I see dead bodies in abandoned places it’s sad because they didn’t want to go through it or see any of there loves one go. Great job on the video they keep getting better!
@ your welcome and it’s depressing I’m grateful that we don’t live in TWD universe yes it would be cool but losing people who you love wouldn’t be great.
I love the dawn of the dead both versions but I hate in the remake let's just leave this mall with everything in it like what at least in the old one they got raided so it would make sense
Interesting take. Using the caravan made it more pulled together. The people on the roof were there long enough to stop clearing the SOS sign. There is a chair over the letters. If they really had hope to be saved it would have been clear. Too much time passed. Too little food. Too many dead.
The female corpse on the mattress may have been paraplegic or already bedridden before the outbreak. If they were family and friends it would explain why they all remained in 1 place throughout as they refused to leave a loved one. It also may give credence to them writing save us instead of trying to find refuge somewhere else believing the only option they had with someone who could not walk was to be rescued from the air. I lean more towards the female corpse being bedridden maybe she was elderly or was terminally ill and just too weak because of the double mattress they have. It seems the others made do with just sleeping bags which makes sense they are easy to carry and are suitable for outdoor camping but the mattress just sticks out, why go through the trouble of lumbering a hugh mattress on the roof when the world around you is going to hell? they would have to have carried that thing from another location and then would have to devise some pulley or rope system to even get it up there cause there is no way that mattress came through that tiny trapdoor. I don’t think its purpose was for a comfortable night sleep but rather a necessary requirement for a person who already bedridden. Another thing that potentially backs up this theory is the fact there are 5 corpses on the roof but there is only 4 deck chairs (the 4th one is on the ground outside) indicating 1 person never needed to use a chair at any point. because most seem to have succumb to bullet wounds the pill bottles we see may not have been used for overdosing but actually used to medicate someone who needed it. The last thing that hints at this is the fact that the female corpse appears to be the only one that is not wearing any footwear or has footwear nearby them like the male corpse has again a possible indication that she just didn’t need them as they served no purpose for someone confined to a bed. I was gonna also include the fact that the placement of the woman on the mattress appears to be behind the lookout area as if being protected, away from where the shell casings are scattered therefore away from the side of the roof that seems to be the most vulnerable but I decided not to only because I doubt it would make any difference given how small the roof area is.
i wish one of the billion spin offs was an episodic show, following different people each week , or even different groups in one episode. maybe first half could be one group, someone kills them then the rest of the episode is following them till they die. could even just be a bunch of bottle episodes taking place in one spot like the mini mart
That women’s shelter in Atlanta when Daryl and Carol are looking for Beth is a cool set or how that entire mechanic rest stop in the later seasons staff turned
@@deryldixon8080ah, I do love the way studios use weird equipment to represent something else, chieftains as Abrams, dushkas as brownings stretching it to say the national guard was still using hueys rather than very likely being on Blackhawks at that point
I know it’s because they’re cheaper usually and more available/recognisable but I always hate how so much media uses the famous soviet gear when it has no right being where it is
Thank you Ty Swell you have made me get interested back to the walking dead again after leaving in season 6 or 7 but anyways great video keep up the good work
You know, all of these environmental storytelling episodes are always so interesting, seeing a snapshot from the early days and the fragile struggle to survive. Always a pleasure to see them. Also makes me wonder why no one attempted to survive in the White House. I always talk to my friends about how perfect the place is. High fences, good vantage point, and the gardens can be turned into farming fields. It’s also in D.C. so there are places around the city to get supplies, and with the Museums nearby, tools they could use. Yet we never see anything surrounding the White House. I’ve also always wondered what happened to the President. Probably in a bunker somewhere lol. Good video as always! Hope to see more in the future!
The one reanimated and chained up was dressed like a kid or young teen in my opinion, maybe they tried to kill the kid with pills instead of having to shoot them, but it didnt work. The blood could have been from a bite, not gunshot
The CDC where the Atlanta group takes shelter, I find that as a great environmental storytelling as well. The high school is S2, where Shane and Otis went to search for medical supplies in order to save Carl,too.
Hi Ty, I love your environmental storytelling series. Fascinating, and I imagine the production team must be happy that their great work isn’t just missed amongst the action. Thank you ❤
You inspired me to restart the original series! I tried to do this last year and made it to season 6 but gave up but your videos made me want to rewatch. I had an idea for a video. You should do character studies on side characters who weren’t incredibly important to the plot but still had an interesting story!
I always thought that the pill bottles were meant to represent a necessary medication that they ran out of, thus forcing them to secure the one person to the post, and that things when from there.
One thing I really like about your theories is that you always take the time to point out potential issues and bring up alternative interpretations and how those would affect things. It’s extra extrapolation and I love it.
I, personally, don't see how the man with the pistol would have killed himself with a headshot and then have had the pistol wind up on that position, laying on the side of the woman. More than likely, they figured out after significant trial and error that only headshots kill the Walkers (considering the dead ones below) but didn't have enough ammo then to clear out the minimart and leave. My thought is that, maybe, the man chained to the poll os the one who killed the others. He likely got bit somewhere and didn't want his zombified self to eat his companions and so chained himself up in the absence of any other way to permanently end himself. He might have put the gun into the mattress man's hand after finishing the deed, as it likely could have belonged to that man. That or maybe the zombified man used the rifle to kill the mattress man after he expensed his pistol ammunition to kill the others.
Another fantastic video!! I've now managed to accrue episodes 1-5 of S2 DD Carol by tomorrow on my cable recorder, so I can either binge the 5 and wait one week for the conclusion or watch the whole show next weekend.
Yeah that’s probably more accurate, I can imagine them watching the glow of the cities burning from the distance if they made it long enough to see operation cobalt
Well he’s not endlessly speculating and droning on about absolutely nothing and leaving us with more confusion and uncertainty than before we watched the video, like some other TH-cam channel that covers twd and explains it
the telescope was ost likely for watching for the dead since the range on it would be better than the rifle scope. I also think these are people that escaped the cities since their gun abilities are very low to bad and they did not seem to be able or willing to deal with a lone walker ( people from the sticks areas are more self reliant). Also they did not search the areas for supplies which would mean they were not familiar with the area / town. The only question would be the one holding the hand gun , how did they past away and not return considering how they were found ? If they self inflicted then the un would be closer to their head.
I can't lie, i completely forgot about this part in the episode but this was a good theory. My theory is that maybe the lone walker killed them all because the placement of the couple with the gun is odd if they mercy killed themselves but maybe im wrong. Now why would he still be left turned is the question. Maybe he was frantic and they had to calm him down but he died from his gunshot wound instead of a bite. Its highly unlikely another group did this because it would be hard to escape. Great video as well!
@ i was thinking about the dead outside. Not many dead bodies but a lot of bullet casings on the roof. Might have been another reason why they didn’t leave. They thought they were next to invincible
Love your videos! Discovered this channel not too long ago and I think I've watched nearly every environmental storytelling one you've made! On that note, I think a good one to tell could be the boat Rick and Aaron find in (I believe it was) Season 7 Episode 7 and 8 could be a good environmental storytelling bit, what with the threats and boards with messages left behind. Edit: Spelling error
@Swell-Films Thanks for making the content you do! I love writing stuff, and not enough people cover Environmental Storytelling like you do. You help inspire me with ideas to add, backround Environmental Stories for my friends to find in Apocalyptic D&D Campaigns I host for my friends for example. Again, thank you for making the content you do!
There’s no blood on the mattress for the couple. Maybe over time with rain it washed away but with the walker still covered in blood it doesn’t make sense. Also, what about the handgun? I find its placement odd like it was used to shoot the tied up walker. Maybe another survivor was there? So I imagine the man shot the walker in the chest because ‘he was gonna turn’. The person with the rifle fought back killing the couple. Either both at once or the woman begged to be with her lover, laying next to him as the rifle person ends her life. The rifle person sees the three chained reanimate. They shoot two in the head. The survivor may have not wanted to kill the other perhaps knowing one another. After a little bit, realising there is no way out, they go. Perhaps they jumped of the building while it was quiet. Perhaps the raiders killed them or they were the walker in the car? Or perhaps they survived? Or the more likely option is realising they weren’t going to make it, went back into the shop surrendering themselves to the dead.
Maggie knew where all this was because her old group did all this before they were killed by the reapers. The save us on the roof means they saw the crm.
I have suggestion Remember when Rick and his groups go to a museum to find seeds that anne (jadis) suggested underground of that museum there's plenty of walkers i think they're survivors and they didn't make it.
I do like your theory but I believe it was the store owner and his wife and son his son was bitten tied to the post they didn't know what to do and they slowly went crazy up on the roof maybe a lot of the zombies from that car convoy could have come over and trapped in there but I think it was a family up on that roof
Just throwing this out there. The paint, if it would have been from the start, "save us" wouldn't be more degraded? I know it's just a show, although in real life, an exposeded body can look like a skeleton in a short amount of time. (Time being relative to where the body is) I'm just saying that maybe something similar but slightly different might have happened, just later. I really like your theory.
The owner (or a squatter)probably lived there, since there was a mattress. Beyond that, I suspect they had been there for at least a few weeks. They likely blew almost all their ammo the first few days. If there was a squatter, it'd explain the lack of food. It might have been condemned and even been boarded up because of this. The broken window might have also been done by raiders, who injured the bound walker, but found the store empty. This wouldn't have stopped the store from being overwhelmed however.
I think gun man shot to kill but missed zombies head. Realising there was one more bullet, in a final embrace, he cupid himself and his missus before they slumped to the side in their laying position. His gun hand already dropping to her side
I am guessing a group of random survivors gathered inside the Minimart. They boarded up and holed up inside, eating the food inside the Minimart. Then, they began to slowly run out of food with nearly a dozen survivors inside. Walkers surrounded them and so, some survivors with weapons began shooting some of the walkers but they had bad accuracy and little supplies left. Some of those inside the shelter were bit and became infected. Too many of them to fight back and the threat of the walkers outside so the surviving ones fled to the roof. But some of them are infected. So, they began to do mercy killing and eventually, the last exposed, dehydrated, hungry, mentally ill and doomed survivors spent their last moments chaining themselves up or killing themselves until the end.
I mean, the chained up walker could still have done the mercy killing. Maybe he got shot in the chaos, killed everyone else, then tied himself up. Could also just be a bite.
I wonder if those bodies outside are even walkers, considering the fact there's already signs in the local area of raiding it's more likely they were taking shots at real people which would explain the casings to bodies ratio being so low, the target was another human ducking and weaving, also considering the fact there are baskets and bricks near each body they might have been looting the store at the time
I think all four survivors got trapped up on the roof without getting bit. But they had holed up in the mini mart for a while, disposing of the dead outside with the rifle setup on the roof. When they got trapped on the roof, they realized they had no food, nor water. They also only had three bullets, especially if they were rushing up to the roof in a panic. Maybe that one reanimated zombie (A) and the body beside him (B) got in a fight while up there and B shot A in the shoulder (had to have happened while he was still alive or no blood). And then B got gravely injured in the fight, later turning him into a zombie. After B is a zombie, A disposes of him by bashing his head in somehow. But now everyone has realized that no matter how you die, you come back. So the couple homicide-suicide or A kills them out of mercy. But that still leaves A. He takes some pills, but its not enough or not the right ones, so he takes some more and chains himself to the pole to not attack anyone else. Or maybe A overdoses and then the couple die. But who knows?
One of my faveriote was in fear u see two bodies with a gun near by and a canned of food u knew qhat happened but they ruined when the women said they killed eachother for canned meatballs
To me the pills were for the couple with the gun (suicide by overdose), the other two probably were thiefs or were discovered doing something bad, so they were tied and killed, maybe they poisoned the other survivors so the food will last more (that would explains the walkers inside).
I think theres a possibility that the shooter culprit could’ve fallen off the roof as a zombie too, if the couple on the mattress weren’t chained up maybe there was another person.
I don't know if the caravan is connected, could be. I do believe the bodies on top are a bit tragic. The teen zombie took his parents and another couple up there since he knew it was a local hangout spot. A fight occurs, the kid gets shot, the one couple has to tie the other family up. Then yeah. You see what they did with the pills.
Another great video. What about the little cabin/ house where Rick rests while dealing with his rebar wound in Season 9 Ep 5. The dead bodies , bullet holes and the message on the wall.
The bodies on the bed are too relaxed for it to be a mercy kill and suicide with the gun. It looks more like either suicide by pills or they just succumbed to their situation of having no food or water. The gun is still in the guy's hand and relaxed on the girl's body indicating that he didn't shoot himself but he was contemplating it. The two bodies are cuddled up to each other indicating that they were embracing each other in their last moments. Plus there doesn't seem to be any old blood on the mattress nor any bullets nearby.
Love the videos. Can you please do one's on the small farm in season 1 where Rick found the couple who committed suicide with god forgive us on the wall and left their horse behind for rick to take into Atlanta??? and on Noah's home complex that the group went to before finding Alexandria? THANKS.
I don't think that their aim was that bad, likely that they didn't know that headshots were the only way to truly put down a walker, and were just firing as much as possible
No mention of how they got a mattress out on that roof some time after the zombie outbreak? Doesn't look like it can fit through the door, even if folded in half.
how do you have a scoped bolt action rifle and take out like 5? walkers? I can only assume Alcohol was left on the shelves of the store when they arrived? or they cleared out the bodies occasionally because there were not that many walkers at first in the small town, until running out of ammo and a lot more walkers arrived. by then it was too late.
I would like it if you describe your ideal community for twd, like every thing from medical answers to how to feed your people and or the numbers in your town. Also your location like swamp, mountains desert or island
I can definitely do a video on that topic one day, but I’d for sure find a spot in the mountains. I’m from Canada so there would be a low population to begin with, and inhabiting a town deep within the mountains would probably be ideal, the landscape would be like a natural wall from the dead. BC has a lot of farmland within these valleys so I think is probably go somewhere there
@@Swell-Films see the problem is you will want a place where say a community of say 20 or so people can survive and thrive. Zombies do not really have tactics so I would not pick a place where they have a edge. Probably an area thats kinda swampy because the walkers rot faster in a hot humid swamp so you can worry about the real danger which is human raiding parties
@@Swell-Films By the way, I live 5 km away from the shooting place of the fake Channel Tunnel in Daryl Dixon spin-off. Well, actually, but I am definitely sticking to the original series, but that's another story...🧟♂
The offices where Abraham and Sasha stay while waiting on Daryl. Abraham finds that uniform and all those weapons. That was a good environmental storytelling episode.
That’s a great suggestion!
@@Swell-Filmsdamn you need to do that next this man had a damn good suggestion
Excellent idea!
Also the store that Abraham and his family took shelter in would be good. Especially since they left him and he found them all dead
Fantastic suggestion
I'm thinking that originally, it was probably the owner of the Mini Mart, and his family who stayed there. They ran out of supplies after a while, and after some time, one of them died, likely from starvation. They turned, and tore into the others, and the ones who got away made it up to the roof. I think the surviving chained zombie was bit and shot in the store itself, but died from blood loss. He wasn't put down because they didn't realize you come back no matter how you die, they may have assumed the original zombie got bit somehow. The couple put the others out of their misery and committed suicide before the zombie reanimated.
I always thought the mini Mart was an homage to dawn of the dead, as it has the same circumstances and sign on the roof, heck even the telescope was featured in the movie.
Very well could be!
Funny, tbis reminded me of the Macon pharmacy from the TellTale game, a glimpse of what mughtve happened, had the group not packed up, and headed to the motel.
This show has so much of Romero in it
Quite the homage to him. Since he created the modern zombie.
R.I.P. George A. Romero
@@Swell-Films 7:38 you write, "When the dead begins to walk the earth.." sounds like a snippet from a phrase said at one time in all of the Dawn of the Dead movies. Vaguely it went something like "When hell gets too crowded...the dead will begin to walk the earth," or something like that.
3:08. Under such dire, dire circumstances notice the penmanship of the sign "SAVE US." With death and dying and a horde of monsters all about including friends and relatives, I would have written that sign in the shakiest of hands! Note the left and margins are perfectly set and measured from the roof ledge. The spaces between letters and words are perfectly proportional. The pressure of the paint is evenly distributed and uniform. Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn could not have done a better job of whitewashing on a picket fence on a mid summer's day after tea than this person who was under constant pressure from an encroaching hell of rotten corpses. Note the tops and bottoms of the individual letters seem almost written with a straight edge. Me? My hand would have been so unsteady and the result would have been so creepy that I could have copyrighted the result as the Walking Dead font! Wow! The above must be sans-serif or something? Anyway kudos for penmanship under pressure, and getting all the measurements lined up and right and not smearing paint/chalk.
Also, is there some kind of religious symbolism here? "SAVE US" is written just above the brown access door to the floors below. With the SAVE US sign above it, and it is left slightly open it looks like a big book. The Bible perhaps? Then there's the preacher man standing next to it all. Perhaps praying "Yea though I walk through the valley (or roof) of the walking dead I will fear no evil, nor walkers."
One soundtrack you probably could never use in this situation is the song written by Carol King and hubby Gerry Goffin "Up on the Roof"
I love when they show abandoned towns in the show and it makes it more interesting and scary what people were doing at the time. Plus getting trapped in a store can be good and bad at the same time for example look at Dawn of the dead 2004 but every time I see dead bodies in abandoned places it’s sad because they didn’t want to go through it or see any of there loves one go. Great job on the video they keep getting better!
Thanks so much mate! And I’m totally with you, seeing these bodies left behind reminds you how sad this world really is
@ your welcome and it’s depressing I’m grateful that we don’t live in TWD universe yes it would be cool but losing people who you love wouldn’t be great.
I love the dawn of the dead both versions but I hate in the remake let's just leave this mall with everything in it like what at least in the old one they got raided so it would make sense
@ yeah but come on the buses were AWESOME
Interesting take. Using the caravan made it more pulled together. The people on the roof were there long enough to stop clearing the SOS sign. There is a chair over the letters. If they really had hope to be saved it would have been clear. Too much time passed. Too little food. Too many dead.
My thoughts exactly!
What makes this show so incredible is that somebody kept cutting and edging the lawns.
The female corpse on the mattress may have been paraplegic or already bedridden before the outbreak. If they were family and friends it would explain why they all remained in 1 place throughout as they refused to leave a loved one. It also may give credence to them writing save us instead of trying to find refuge somewhere else believing the only option they had with someone who could not walk was to be rescued from the air. I lean more towards the female corpse being bedridden maybe she was elderly or was terminally ill and just too weak because of the double mattress they have. It seems the others made do with just sleeping bags which makes sense they are easy to carry and are suitable for outdoor camping but the mattress just sticks out, why go through the trouble of lumbering a hugh mattress on the roof when the world around you is going to hell? they would have to have carried that thing from another location and then would have to devise some pulley or rope system to even get it up there cause there is no way that mattress came through that tiny trapdoor. I don’t think its purpose was for a comfortable night sleep but rather a necessary requirement for a person who already bedridden. Another thing that potentially backs up this theory is the fact there are 5 corpses on the roof but there is only 4 deck chairs (the 4th one is on the ground outside) indicating 1 person never needed to use a chair at any point. because most seem to have succumb to bullet wounds the pill bottles we see may not have been used for overdosing but actually used to medicate someone who needed it. The last thing that hints at this is the fact that the female corpse appears to be the only one that is not wearing any footwear or has footwear nearby them like the male corpse has again a possible indication that she just didn’t need them as they served no purpose for someone confined to a bed. I was gonna also include the fact that the placement of the woman on the mattress appears to be behind the lookout area as if being protected, away from where the shell casings are scattered therefore away from the side of the roof that seems to be the most vulnerable but I decided not to only because I doubt it would make any difference given how small the roof area is.
You convinced me!
i wish one of the billion spin offs was an episodic show, following different people each week , or even different groups in one episode. maybe first half could be one group, someone kills them then the rest of the episode is following them till they die. could even just be a bunch of bottle episodes taking place in one spot like the mini mart
I like these Environmental Stories of The Walking Dead. always fun to speculate!
I would suggest looking at the hospital clinic where The Governor was taking a gas canister for Lilly’s dad that would be a interesting idea
Oh man yea that’s a good one for sure great suggestion
That scene was scary AF. And they live right next to the clinic too! Owo
love these vids keep up the good work
Guy on bed couldn't have shot himself cuz he's holding the gun around the waist of his dead wife.someone else shot them.
That was a nursing home I thought.
That women’s shelter in Atlanta when Daryl and Carol are looking for Beth is a cool set or how that entire mechanic rest stop in the later seasons staff turned
The environmental story telling are some of my favorite videos
cdc abandoned battlefield next 🗿
If I recall it had ALOT of firepower laying around like 50cals and even one tank at least ? They probably abandoned the place during operation cobalt
@sylvananas7923 Yep 2 tanks and even Soviet Dushka machine gun and lots of m4 rifles on the ground
@@deryldixon8080ah, I do love the way studios use weird equipment to represent something else, chieftains as Abrams, dushkas as brownings stretching it to say the national guard was still using hueys rather than very likely being on Blackhawks at that point
@@cpt-cheese3489 you forget the m60 tanks in season 4 episode
1 and rpg 7 in season 6
I know it’s because they’re cheaper usually and more available/recognisable but I always hate how so much media uses the famous soviet gear when it has no right being where it is
Thank you Ty Swell you have made me get interested back to the walking dead again after leaving in season 6 or 7 but anyways great video keep up the good work
I appreciate that thanks for watching!
You know, all of these environmental storytelling episodes are always so interesting, seeing a snapshot from the early days and the fragile struggle to survive. Always a pleasure to see them.
Also makes me wonder why no one attempted to survive in the White House. I always talk to my friends about how perfect the place is. High fences, good vantage point, and the gardens can be turned into farming fields. It’s also in D.C. so there are places around the city to get supplies, and with the Museums nearby, tools they could use. Yet we never see anything surrounding the White House. I’ve also always wondered what happened to the President. Probably in a bunker somewhere lol. Good video as always! Hope to see more in the future!
Realistically people are, just like staff who got stuck inside
Zombieland 2 had them living in the white house
Would've been funny if they investigated the White House when they explored DC, finding some crazy hermit that was the former president or something.
I said the same about a prison...then I saw what happened at the prison...
I could have sworn it was confirmed that the president was zombified after committing suicide
The one reanimated and chained up was dressed like a kid or young teen in my opinion, maybe they tried to kill the kid with pills instead of having to shoot them, but it didnt work. The blood could have been from a bite, not gunshot
The CDC where the Atlanta group takes shelter, I find that as a great environmental storytelling as well.
The high school is S2, where Shane and Otis went to search for medical supplies in order to save Carl,too.
I absolutely love this series. Every time you post a new video, I rewatch the entire playlist. 😸😻😺
Haha I appreciate that!
Hi Ty, I love your environmental storytelling series. Fascinating, and I imagine the production team must be happy that their great work isn’t just missed amongst the action. Thank you ❤
I appreciate that! And that’s always been my hope, For whoever did the set design for these scenes to stumble across these videos
You inspired me to restart the original series! I tried to do this last year and made it to season 6 but gave up but your videos made me want to rewatch. I had an idea for a video. You should do character studies on side characters who weren’t incredibly important to the plot but still had an interesting story!
Every time I rewatch I stop on season 6 lol, I just can't get through the Negan War again.
I always thought that the pill bottles were meant to represent a necessary medication that they ran out of, thus forcing them to secure the one person to the post, and that things when from there.
One thing I really like about your theories is that you always take the time to point out potential issues and bring up alternative interpretations and how those would affect things. It’s extra extrapolation and I love it.
Environment storytelling is so good
The windows are boarded up from the outside. Survivors wouldn't do it on the outside. Those are to keep people in, not out.
Gabriel unlocks the door from the inside, so they easily could have just gone on the outside and back in at any point before the walkers came
@@Swell-Films if I'm trying to hide my location, I'd board it up from the outside to make it look like it was trapping something in.
If you could, I would love to see your take on what happened to the hotel they left in FTWD (only to come back and find it deserted)
Place beta was hanging out when he meets alpha is interesting one to look into. Great video bro 👍
I, personally, don't see how the man with the pistol would have killed himself with a headshot and then have had the pistol wind up on that position, laying on the side of the woman. More than likely, they figured out after significant trial and error that only headshots kill the Walkers (considering the dead ones below) but didn't have enough ammo then to clear out the minimart and leave.
My thought is that, maybe, the man chained to the poll os the one who killed the others. He likely got bit somewhere and didn't want his zombified self to eat his companions and so chained himself up in the absence of any other way to permanently end himself. He might have put the gun into the mattress man's hand after finishing the deed, as it likely could have belonged to that man.
That or maybe the zombified man used the rifle to kill the mattress man after he expensed his pistol ammunition to kill the others.
Your videos are always interesting, and I really enjoy all the speculation.
Half expected to see a zombie Jay and Silent Bob out front
I'm really enjoying your series about Environmental Storytelling. Please keep up the good work!
Thanks so much for watching!
Another fantastic video!! I've now managed to accrue episodes 1-5 of S2 DD Carol by tomorrow on my cable recorder, so I can either binge the 5 and wait one week for the conclusion or watch the whole show next weekend.
I love how you summarized the possible scene. It seems pretty much the way it played out.
Yet another great find and awesome story crafted on the basis of what was shown in the series. Great job!
I keep hearing “just let him turn!” when I see the chained up guy with the heart shot
So happy i found this channel
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Dude u get sub! I love these series! Keep doing videos like these!
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oh man, i just found you and im about to binge watch this whole series
I love these videos. Keep up the great work bro.
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I don't think the telescope was for stargazing, I'm pretty sure it was for observing the surrounding area.
Yeah that’s probably more accurate, I can imagine them watching the glow of the cities burning from the distance if they made it long enough to see operation cobalt
another fantastic environmental storytelling video! thanks, ty!
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Great theory and video as always
How is it possible THAT One Single Person reignited my Love for the Walking Dead like yeah
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Well he’s not endlessly speculating and droning on about absolutely nothing and leaving us with more confusion and uncertainty than before we watched the video, like some other TH-cam channel that covers twd and explains it
the telescope was ost likely for watching for the dead since the range on it would be better than the rifle scope.
I also think these are people that escaped the cities since their gun abilities are very low to bad and they did not seem to be able or willing to deal with a lone walker ( people from the sticks areas are more self reliant). Also they did not search the areas for supplies which would mean they were not familiar with the area / town.
The only question would be the one holding the hand gun , how did they past away and not return considering how they were found ? If they self inflicted then the un would be closer to their head.
I can't lie, i completely forgot about this part in the episode but this was a good theory. My theory is that maybe the lone walker killed them all because the placement of the couple with the gun is odd if they mercy killed themselves but maybe im wrong. Now why would he still be left turned is the question. Maybe he was frantic and they had to calm him down but he died from his gunshot wound instead of a bite. Its highly unlikely another group did this because it would be hard to escape. Great video as well!
Thanks mate! Yeah this one’s really tough to piece together, tbh any theory could be right with how little evidence there is
They might not have even known that you had to shoot the brain to kill them
That was my thought, explaining why one was shot in the chest, they simply aimed wherever they thought would be quick
@ i was thinking about the dead outside. Not many dead bodies but a lot of bullet casings on the roof. Might have been another reason why they didn’t leave. They thought they were next to invincible
Love your videos! Discovered this channel not too long ago and I think I've watched nearly every environmental storytelling one you've made!
On that note, I think a good one to tell could be the boat Rick and Aaron find in (I believe it was) Season 7 Episode 7 and 8 could be a good environmental storytelling bit, what with the threats and boards with messages left behind.
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I appreciate you watching! I’ve gotten that one suggested quite a few times so it’s definitely on my list!
@Swell-Films Thanks for making the content you do! I love writing stuff, and not enough people cover Environmental Storytelling like you do. You help inspire me with ideas to add, backround Environmental Stories for my friends to find in Apocalyptic D&D Campaigns I host for my friends for example. Again, thank you for making the content you do!
There’s no blood on the mattress for the couple. Maybe over time with rain it washed away but with the walker still covered in blood it doesn’t make sense. Also, what about the handgun? I find its placement odd like it was used to shoot the tied up walker. Maybe another survivor was there? So I imagine the man shot the walker in the chest because ‘he was gonna turn’. The person with the rifle fought back killing the couple. Either both at once or the woman begged to be with her lover, laying next to him as the rifle person ends her life. The rifle person sees the three chained reanimate. They shoot two in the head. The survivor may have not wanted to kill the other perhaps knowing one another. After a little bit, realising there is no way out, they go. Perhaps they jumped of the building while it was quiet. Perhaps the raiders killed them or they were the walker in the car? Or perhaps they survived? Or the more likely option is realising they weren’t going to make it, went back into the shop surrendering themselves to the dead.
Thanks for the new video, especially on my rare Saturday off 🤘🤘🤘
Getting ready to leave out the house *Ty uploads* looks like imma leave later
Haha love to hear it!
Maggie knew where all this was because her old group did all this before they were killed by the reapers. The save us on the roof means they saw the crm.
early for another ty swell classic
Man, I love The Walking Dead
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Hey thanks so much that’s very kind of you :)
I have suggestion Remember when Rick and his groups go to a museum to find seeds that anne (jadis) suggested underground of that museum there's plenty of walkers i think they're survivors and they didn't make it.
This scene was after when they won to The saviors
I’ve gotten that one suggested a couple times so it’s definitely on my list!
I do like your theory but I believe it was the store owner and his wife and son his son was bitten tied to the post they didn't know what to do and they slowly went crazy up on the roof maybe a lot of the zombies from that car convoy could have come over and trapped in there but I think it was a family up on that roof
Just throwing this out there. The paint, if it would have been from the start, "save us" wouldn't be more degraded? I know it's just a show, although in real life, an exposeded body can look like a skeleton in a short amount of time. (Time being relative to where the body is) I'm just saying that maybe something similar but slightly different might have happened, just later. I really like your theory.
I think it’d be a cool lil video if you looked at when strand finds the beached yacht in ftwd it’s got some cool missable details
I believe that’s his own ship the Abigail
The owner (or a squatter)probably lived there, since there was a mattress.
Beyond that, I suspect they had been there for at least a few weeks. They likely blew almost all their ammo the first few days.
If there was a squatter, it'd explain the lack of food. It might have been condemned and even been boarded up because of this.
The broken window might have also been done by raiders, who injured the bound walker, but found the store empty. This wouldn't have stopped the store from being overwhelmed however.
Another good quality video
I think gun man shot to kill but missed zombies head. Realising there was one more bullet, in a final embrace, he cupid himself and his missus before they slumped to the side in their laying position. His gun hand already dropping to her side
I am guessing a group of random survivors gathered inside the Minimart. They boarded up and holed up inside, eating the food inside the Minimart. Then, they began to slowly run out of food with nearly a dozen survivors inside. Walkers surrounded them and so, some survivors with weapons began shooting some of the walkers but they had bad accuracy and little supplies left. Some of those inside the shelter were bit and became infected. Too many of them to fight back and the threat of the walkers outside so the surviving ones fled to the roof. But some of them are infected. So, they began to do mercy killing and eventually, the last exposed, dehydrated, hungry, mentally ill and doomed survivors spent their last moments chaining themselves up or killing themselves until the end.
I mean, the chained up walker could still have done the mercy killing. Maybe he got shot in the chaos, killed everyone else, then tied himself up. Could also just be a bite.
The mattress one.
Has always stuck with me
I wonder if those bodies outside are even walkers, considering the fact there's already signs in the local area of raiding it's more likely they were taking shots at real people which would explain the casings to bodies ratio being so low, the target was another human ducking and weaving, also considering the fact there are baskets and bricks near each body they might have been looting the store at the time
I think all four survivors got trapped up on the roof without getting bit. But they had holed up in the mini mart for a while, disposing of the dead outside with the rifle setup on the roof.
When they got trapped on the roof, they realized they had no food, nor water. They also only had three bullets, especially if they were rushing up to the roof in a panic. Maybe that one reanimated zombie (A) and the body beside him (B) got in a fight while up there and B shot A in the shoulder (had to have happened while he was still alive or no blood). And then B got gravely injured in the fight, later turning him into a zombie.
After B is a zombie, A disposes of him by bashing his head in somehow. But now everyone has realized that no matter how you die, you come back. So the couple homicide-suicide or A kills them out of mercy.
But that still leaves A. He takes some pills, but its not enough or not the right ones, so he takes some more and chains himself to the pole to not attack anyone else.
Or maybe A overdoses and then the couple die. But who knows?
One of my faveriote was in fear u see two bodies with a gun near by and a canned of food u knew qhat happened but they ruined when the women said they killed eachother for canned meatballs
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The place got overrun by walkers.
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To me the pills were for the couple with the gun (suicide by overdose), the other two probably were thiefs or were discovered doing something bad, so they were tied and killed, maybe they poisoned the other survivors so the food will last more (that would explains the walkers inside).
The bar hotel beta ends up in after alphas dead where he sees a poster of his former self.
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I think theres a possibility that the shooter culprit could’ve fallen off the roof as a zombie too, if the couple on the mattress weren’t chained up maybe there was another person.
I don't know if the caravan is connected, could be. I do believe the bodies on top are a bit tragic. The teen zombie took his parents and another couple up there since he knew it was a local hangout spot. A fight occurs, the kid gets shot, the one couple has to tie the other family up. Then yeah. You see what they did with the pills.
Another great video. What about the little cabin/ house where Rick rests while dealing with his rebar wound in Season 9 Ep 5. The dead bodies , bullet holes and the message on the wall.
That’s a great suggestion!
Honestly, the mini-mart doesn't look too different from the start of the Tell-tale games.
The bodies on the bed are too relaxed for it to be a mercy kill and suicide with the gun. It looks more like either suicide by pills or they just succumbed to their situation of having no food or water. The gun is still in the guy's hand and relaxed on the girl's body indicating that he didn't shoot himself but he was contemplating it. The two bodies are cuddled up to each other indicating that they were embracing each other in their last moments. Plus there doesn't seem to be any old blood on the mattress nor any bullets nearby.
Love the videos. Can you please do one's on the small farm in season 1 where Rick found the couple who committed suicide with god forgive us on the wall and left their horse behind for rick to take into Atlanta??? and on Noah's home complex that the group went to before finding Alexandria? THANKS.
I don't think that their aim was that bad, likely that they didn't know that headshots were the only way to truly put down a walker, and were just firing as much as possible
No mention of how they got a mattress out on that roof some time after the zombie outbreak? Doesn't look like it can fit through the door, even if folded in half.
Should do one on the auto shop in season 4 when Daryl is on the medicine run
how do you have a scoped bolt action rifle and take out like 5? walkers? I can only assume Alcohol was left on the shelves of the store when they arrived? or they cleared out the bodies occasionally because there were not that many walkers at first in the small town, until running out of ammo and a lot more walkers arrived. by then it was too late.
Most likely wasn't zeroed properly so they spent more time missing than anything else.
That mattress looks ominous
I hope it’s okay but may I suggest the brunt house mentioned at the beginning of the video maybe? Unless there isn’t enough to cover
Unfortunately with so little information given, that one would be pretty tough to put together without just making stuff up
@ ah poo oh well it is what it is thanks for listening to my suggestion and can’t wait to see your next video
The scene from ep.1 the dead family in the farmhouse
The university that michonne Tyrese Darryl and Bob go to in S4
With so many dying so fast there should have been plenty of supplies available.
Could you please explore the church in FTWD season 5, Esp 12 for your next video?
I would like it if you describe your ideal community for twd, like every thing from medical answers to how to feed your people and or the numbers in your town. Also your location like swamp, mountains desert or island
I can definitely do a video on that topic one day, but I’d for sure find a spot in the mountains.
I’m from Canada so there would be a low population to begin with, and inhabiting a town deep within the mountains would probably be ideal, the landscape would be like a natural wall from the dead.
BC has a lot of farmland within these valleys so I think is probably go somewhere there
@@Swell-Films see the problem is you will want a place where say a community of say 20 or so people can survive and thrive. Zombies do not really have tactics so I would not pick a place where they have a edge. Probably an area thats kinda swampy because the walkers rot faster in a hot humid swamp so you can worry about the real danger which is human raiding parties
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This video idea is very cool and unique
I always thought it was the other way around... that people would be fleeing to less populated rural areas. 🤷🏾♀️
Is it me or the chained walker has something written on the forehead?
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Can you do the fall of the CDC next pls?
It kinda resembles the building in Resident Evil Apocalypse where the cops were hiding in.
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The doors are locked from the outside and chained. There is a ladder by the front door. Think this story got more interesting.
Was this season 11 when Maggie left for food too