thewalkingdead
First look at Stephen Merchant as Julian, the last Englishman in England.
Season 3 premieres September 7 exclusively on AMC & AMC+
Discussion
"I thought you guys held out"
"No we did, this isn't because of the outbreak, it's been like this since Brexit"
LOL im hoping the character is bullshitting
I can hear this in his voice
Stop
Karl Pilkington zombie cameo?
So I saw this walker right, had a limp but I noticed he was heading towards a grocery store where there were bananas. He turned around... little monkey fella
There’s this thing in it
The virus came from the chemical plant in Manchester
That would be elite
The last Brit? Lmao if that is true I’m going to lose all suspension of disbelief
It says Englishman, not Brit.
Tale as old as time. Couple weeks ago Danny Boyle said 28 years later was set "on the island of England". Its tiring.
Isn't Brit a subcategory on Englishman? I don't know that hierarchy.
Its the other way around
Oh yea, my fault. I forgot that Britain is all, and England is a part. My bad.
We’ve arranged to meet back at you.
Eyes that pop out of their head… Steve
Hope he has quite a serious prominent role and we see him take on some walkers. We have to assume he's capable of fighting if he's still around haha.
He'll guide them to a boat to get to Spain and then sacrifice himself so they can leave. Or decide to stay in England to be the last man forever.
Sorry but if 28 Years Later manages to have multiple communities surviving in a world with sprinting rage zombies, then there's no way that the UK only has one person left in the WD world.
I’m a little disappointed that we’ll be getting such a short amount of time in England, I’m really curious to see how England coped in not just the major cities, but the rural countryside
NGL this is crazy that Americans think they’d fair better off then us in an zombie apocalypse lol.
There’s a few states in America where there are more guns than people
Isn't that part of the problem?
The show makes it very clear that the living are much more dangerous than the walkers.
Cope
They have more guns More open spaces Their terrain is often more fertile Their leadership is often more ruthless America is the best country when it comes to survival in any post apocaliptic scenario Cease this europoor coping, you're embarrassing yourself
America is falling apart at the seams, and it didn't take an apocalypse to do it.
To be fair this Zombie Apocalypse started in 2010. America wasn't nearly as bad then as it is now.
"Falling apart" You see people in lines to get food? Are Americans losing a war for their vassals or their own territory? Get outta here, the only place where this bs flies is reddit
I see people being put in ICE camps, I see a President who doesn't care about democracy, I see people who have to pay for healthcare instead of being given it freely. I see an overwhelmed for profit prison system, I see a country that is deeply divided, friends and family are turning on eachother because of their political views.
And when I look at you I see someone who had it hard and thinks that built his character but it didn't, it just made you like the people who ensured you had it hard and you're proud of that, which is just sad. Is there nothing inside you that desires to be better than that? Or will you spend the rest of your days mistaking your fear as strength?
Cringe response champ.
99% of the problems in the show are caused by firearms, and by about season 3, they weren’t using firearms against Walkers, only hostile groups. Doing an apocalypse in a country where you’re likely to get shot by a deranged Karen who wants your stuff, isn’t the flex you seem to think it is.
The US consists of 6% developed land. The UK has 9% developed land. It’s really not enough of a difference to flex about kiddo. The U.K. also has castles, is an island, and doesn’t have natural disasters to worry about. I’d say we’re good.
Trying to flex terrain fertility is such a dumb argument that I don’t even know where to start. Yes, the US has a higher quantity of Mollisols than the UK, but soil fertility on this scale really isn’t consequential enough to matter; you’re not trying to feed a whole country, you’re trying to feed smaller communities.
And yes, your government is ruthless, and dumb. The whole world watched your government try to deny COVID, and the whole world would watch your government turn your military into private security for the super rich. They’d kill civilians by the millions to keep their yachts and golf courses safe.
Maybe rethink the ‘europoor’ comments when they’re not well thought out little guy.
"99% of the problems are vaused by guns" WORST ARGUMENT I HAVE EVER SEEN" When the cops and the military inevitably dies, you expect people to craft bows and arrows? Parts of the UK (like London) don't even let you carry short knives, good luck handling walkers, loser
Also, the uk has a bigger percentafe of ppl living in an urban area (bigger immediate risk to hordes)
Idgaf about moli whatever, Hawaii and California can grow food year round, the Midwest has likely the first/second most fertile soil and we have more sunny days than you depressive ghouls
Our government isn't dumb, it just doesn't care. Yours is dumb and cockblocked by rules that aren't even in your books, hence why you can't build or invent shit, and your brightest still come to America to create
Yeah, not only europoor, but euroretarded
Get outta here with your propaganda lil bro
Ad hominem As to be expected from a small person like you
Do me a favor and touch grass rq lil bro
Australia would be so much better, ironic too considering your username
That would be a good one if it wasn't for the lack of fertile terrain
Sounds like a headline from real life
He looks rather ungainly.
And what about in the role?
I am assuming this is a ‘last man on Earth’ situation - he probably thinks he’s the last Englishman but that’s just because he hasn’t seen anyone else
Either that or he’s a Reform voter and he just thinks everyone else he sees isn’t a ‘real’ Englishman
I refuse to accept that there aren't factions of survivors that have raided castles and museums and go round killing walkers while wearing suits of armour wield a longsword.
I have yet to actually watch DD, but I honestly love Steve merchant so I guess it’s time I caught up
Anyone who knows England or any place on the island of Britain. Knows that there as so many great Zombie defence places for people to survive. My favourite being where I’m from. Kernow and St. Michael’s Mount. So being the last citizen is absurd
I thought it was announced England had survived the apocalypse
My interest is peaked
damn now I actually have to watch season 3. I had zero interest but will watch if Stephen Merchant is in it
It’s so hard for me to care about this show.
If they killed off everyone in Britain, that would be PEAK
Julian being the last sounds rather absurd. Let's hope there's a proper explanation.
they ruined all potential cool avenues for england if this is an official synopsis of the character
I think it's a tongue-and-cheek joke and maybe he considers himself to be the last civilized human who hasn't descended into barbarity over the apocalypse. That's my best cope for it at least.
God I hope haha, maybe hes gone mad and thinks its true or hes protecting others from a potential threat. Perhaps everyones in the country side (please)
Andrew Lincoln could play some Welsh guy! 😃
Yeah there’s a lot to interpret from the sentence. Could be another island nation that took over England and wiped out the English in a war or “purified” the English like Iceland, or Greenland. Or Iceland/Greenland were clean of walkers and allied to the UK before helping them evacuate once an infection occurred. But I don’t know if the writers/marketing would be so clever to do that.
Yeah, that would make no fucking sense. With as much civilizations that are scattered around across everywhere we've seen in TWD universe, there's no way everyone in England is dead.
I am hoping he just hasn't traveled that far and assumes he's the last one.
Agreed. Even if the coasts and cities are infested, there have to be survivors and communities in places like Scotland or even areas with natural defense.
Or the bloody castles and huge estate manors dotted around the countryside, hell even the council estates in cities would be fortresses with little effort. Attack the block with zombies needs to happen
There is less than 0% chance of any infected making up the mountains here in Scotland.
Good luck with some half dead bastard trying to stagger up Ben Nevis.
Nah there's more in England. The Scottish people from s2 even said that compared to France and other countries England isn't that bad and got locked down pretty quick by the army. What this means is that England is maybe mostly full of French people coming through that tunnel as well like the scottish did. We also know from s1 that there are Irish people around from the tape recorder Daryl found saying Ireland was a shit hole and they had to move so maybe there's Irish in England too.
I love the thought that England are the competent ones who’d be quick to lock the country down. Absolutely no chance.
Let's eat out to help out!
As previous lore suggests that the UK was still operating as a functional nation well into TWD timeline im going to assume “something” possibly infected, possibly resources, possibly infrastructure necessitated the population moving northward.
Which actually makes sense as so much of the north and west are built out of fortified towns with at least partial walls that could be rapidly reinforced and sealed off if needed.
In the TWD universe you learn from the early seasons that England actually survived the initial apocalypse and is a fully functioning country still
Yeah no we have a shit ton of countryside no way would we all be dead
It's said that England is still a functioning country with the government managing to survive but chances are it's not really a government anymore and it's just more like genets army
Yeah, that would be ridiculous beyond words. Honestly England should have weathered the Wildfire virus better than the US because TWD zombies are particularly physically weak compared to other kinds, so the prevalence of gardening tools and strong buildings would be a huge boon to the UK, compared to how the US often pulls ahead in apocalypse scenarios because of the availability of firearms. Especially since TWD leans into the idea that the undead are actually not the greatest threat, it's other people and nature, so the lack of firearms helps keep that particular threat from escalating, and it's easy as piss to grow enough root vegetables to keep a small population fed in the UK.
I've always thought Europe would do well with castles. The Tower of London, for example, has land for growing vegetables (not much, but a bit), river access for fishing and transport, literally rooms filled with armour and medieval weaponry.
Also, other parts of the UK would be potentially good. Barry Island off the coast of Wales, for example. Or imagine if you could make this place habitable https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Stalker
I think castles are a bit over hyped as a factor. Like, yes, if you get to the point of an established, we'll run group, like you have at the prison or Alexandria? Yes, it's an absolute godsend.
But even our everyday brick houses with solid wooden doors are pretty damn defensible against the mindless pressure of a crowd.
Museums filled with old arms and armour are again overhyped; against unarmoured walkers, you don't want or need big classic melee weapons that were made for breaking through armour, a well made garden tool will do you plenty. And the US probably wins out with the availability of personal body armour, though everybody should have been making themselves chainmail from aluminium wire the moment they hit a hardware store.
I think that with only a few people you could defend a castle pretty effectively, though. I think that just having that wall would be a huge bonus, and they would be able to patrol it, seeing what the streets are looking like. The river would also provide a means of escape. The armoury at the Tower has a vast array of weapons, so it's not just weapons designed for cutting through armour. If you look at these
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Weapons.003_-_Tower_of_London.JPG
I think they would be more useful than anything you'd have at home just for the range.
There's also weapons like crossbows (admittedly, nothing as modern as Darryl's) and bows and arrows.
The Tower is also, technically, a military base, so there's soldiers stationed there, so I'd assume there's more modern weaponry and body armour there as well.
I think they'd get people arriving there because it's known as a defensive castle, and they'd soon have numbers to man it well. The Tower of London also has actual houses there, so it's not like people would be sleeping on a stone floor in the keep. Hell, it's even got a pub (which I've always wanted to visit but, sadly, I don't know any beefeaters).
I think it's far beyond anywhere like the prison or Alexandria just because of the size of the walls. As you can see here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_London#/media/File:Tower_of_London_from_the_Shard_(8515883950).jpg.jpg)
There's a low outer wall which, from what I remember, wouldn't be much use - I think you could climb over and fall down onto that grassy bit. But it could be built up so that this area could be used to grow crops. Then, there's a bigger wall, then a MUCH bigger wall and then, if the zombies somehow got through that, there's the keep and the other secure buildings. Also, keep that river taxi you can see bottom left ready to go in case you have to evacuate.
I don’t think that “The last Englishman in England” is supposed to be taken seriously, sound like a joke maybe Julian himself says because he hasn’t seen anyone in years.
We also might be missing context, like maybe everyone was moved up to Scotland and they’re specifically referring to England rather than the U.K. as a whole.
Tbh most people wouldn't have to move as far as Scotland for safety most of England is rural. Perhaps hes the last English man in London maybe. But 100 percent he wouldnt be the last man in England. Although this is a tv show so they could very well make him the last man in england 😂.
Yeah. That's why I was hoping for a proper explanation. Let's see if they learned from their mistakes from season two.
They’re really phoning in the writing in these shows. The ones who live started extremely strong and ended very weak. Dead city is awful, Daryl Dixon is mid. It’s time to just finish these storylines and put an end to the mediocrity.
i didn't even think it started strong, i've hated CRM since the beginning. the Pennsylvania National Guard turning to a futuristic world genocide organization in like 2 years is just fuckin stupid.
Nah I think what this means is that England is mostly full of foreigners. The Scottish people from s2 said England wasn't that bad and got locked down by the army fast and that also said Scotland was a shit hole so maybe a lot of Scottish moved. We know you can pass through the tunnel so there's a high chance alot of French migrated there after aswell. We also know theres Irish around from the tape recorder Daryl found on the boat saying Ireland was a shit hole and they had to move.
By how it was described England is what seems to be one of the most in tact and safest countries so if word got around there's a good chance alot of healthy ones from all over Europe fled to England
Unless he's a big old elitist and just considers himself the only true Englishman because he has a family with a notable bloodline or something.
Wasn’t the UK still mostly intact/operational as a nation years into TWD timeline?
Like they still had a thriving population and resources.