‘The Walking
Dead’ was once a very good show. It was
a good show when Frank Darabont was the show runner in Season 1. The show had a way of captivating you, scaring
you and making you feel, and I mean, REALLY feel for these characters in a completely
unrealistic situation… the zombie apocalypse.
The show was atmospheric and edge of your seat. Then Frank Darabont left the show for what I
am assuming (this is pure speculation, not fact) was creative differences.
The reason I
feel there were creative differences is because in Season 2 this show slows
down…to a halt. The pacing became beyond slow. At this point, I believe Glen
Mazzara had taken over as show runner. Glen Mazzara is a writer for whom I have a
massive amount of respect. Season 2 picks up about half way through the season
and got really good, the pacing got going and the story propelled but it was never
Season 1. What I mean by it was never Season
1 is the show wasn’t AS captivating, not to say it wasn’t good but something was
off. As Season 2 ended, there was a
great possibility for the show to get back to Season 1 material.
As Season 3
kicked off, I felt like the show hit a stride.
We were back to Season 1 and it was awesome. After the first 3 episodes, the show died. (At some point in this process, Glen Mazzara
left as show runner. That means by Season 4 of this show, there have been 3
different show runners. That is a big
indication that something is wrong.) ‘The
Walking Dead’ had become a dead television show. The episodes were filled with filler (meaning
scenes that waste time and don’t further plot or characters) and the dialogue became
off kilter and stale. This show is based
off of some amazing source material and only the 1st Season did that
justice. In Season 3 new characters were
brought in, important characters from the graphic novels AND NOTHING
HAPPENED. Season 3 was the most anticlimactic
Season of television I have ever seen and the finale was the worst finale in
the history of television. The show
tried to build up to something fantastic and failed. It failed miserably. I remember watching the finale end and I
turned to my Father and said, “Well that sucked.” My Dad nodded in agreement.
So last
night, Season 4 of ‘The Walking Dead’ premiered. What we got was a lot of walking (literally),
a lot of awful dialogue and blood. This
show has become reliant on blood and action as opposed to story and character. That pisses me off! This show started as an amazing character
driven story with action and violence to further the story and characters. Now, that is gone. There are no more characters. They are all interchangeable and one dimensional. What once was fantastic has become stagnant
and honestly, boring. It saddens me to
say this but ‘The Walking Dead’ has literally become The Walking Dead. There is no longer any meat on the bone with
this show. The meat left with the great
writer/creator, Mr. Frank Darabont.
- George McCann
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