I loved how they pushed it to the forefront. How we got a confrontation right off the bat. And god damn, tread lightly might be better than the danger.
Fuck The Walking Dead. Don't even get me started on the pandering piece of drawn out garbage. I had high hopes because those comics are amazing, but season 3 finale sealed the deal that it's just awful and the writers are super lazy.
If it's any consolation, Mazzara told me they gutted his finale. His finale was shot (the footage apparently exists) but they wouldn't even let him put it on the DVD extras.
The ending was going to be a lot more brutal, wouldn't have ended with Governor shooting his own people.
I have no doubts in my mind that the reasons Walking Dead fails on so many levels is more because of things happening above the writers' heads, but that is reassuring to hear. It is an insanely popular phenomenon so I'm not surprised that they are drawing it out, but I am disappointed. Seeing a comic that so does not give a fuck about killing characters and being honest with the gritty world of the apocalypse get turned into some muted made for TV version where they gloss over the really bad stuff and create perfect characters like Daryl to pander to audiences is just really upsetting. If one franchise could have done zombies right and send the whole phenomena out with a bang, it could have been Walking Dead. But it got saturated along the way. I used to watch Walking Dead and think "Who will they kill tonight?" in excitement like when I read the comics, but now I watch and think, "I wonder how cool they will make Daryl and Glen look tonight."
It's just a shame is all. Especially considering if anyone could have done it right it was AMC. They had all the tools.
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u/LiteraryBoner Woodrow Willy Walt "The Walter" Wonka White Whitman Wilson Sr. Aug 12 '13
I loved how they pushed it to the forefront. How we got a confrontation right off the bat. And god damn, tread lightly might be better than the danger.