Creator “Walking Dead” Robert Kirkman regrets one episode

“The Walking Dead” is not just a hit, and it’s not just one of the most influential comics in the history of the environment. It became a strangely durable multimedia franchise that helped revise the zombie genre in the 2010s. HBO missed by turning “walking dead” into a seriesBut this loss has turned into AMC’s income for 11 seasons. Not to mention all the back. This is an empire of cable television. So, does the creator of Robert Kirkman regret? In particular, one episode stands out in this regard.

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Kirkman, who created a series of Comics Image, which inspired the TV show, talked Hollywood reporter In 2014 in the midst of the popularity of the show. Asked about what kind of regret he could have had, Kirkman explained that, giving the opportunity, he would not have concluded the first season of the show the way he visited the CDC. Why? That’s what Kirkman has to say about it:

“If I had to do it again, I wouldn’t do the CDC episode. It may have distributed too much information and it was so much change in the series. I was cautious in the comic book series to not say what was happening in other parts of the world. This will be fun to study in the spin-off series. Fun in the “Spin-off” series.

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“Walking Dead” Season 1 by -Stay considered one of the best showsAnd this ends with a particularly revealing episode called “TS-19”. The episode sees Rick and the group that was released by CDC by the amazing doctor Edwin Jenner (Noah Emmer). However, all this is not what seems like a shelter for survivors. The group learns that, in fact, every person now carries the virus, and when they died, they will be resuscitated. CDC self -destruction by the end of the episode, with low mood safety.

While this episode answered a few big questions that were supporters and helped to reinforce some intrigue for the 2 season, Kirkman believes he was too much. What is worth it is very specific in how he dealt with the apocalypse zombie. For example, They never say “zombie” on “Walking Dead,“What is a deliberate choice. Maintaining some mystery and preservation of things relatively justified was important for Kirkman.

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After the flagship show ended, everything appeared again in France. Norman Redus’ Daril Dixon went to France in the aptly said spin-off “” Walking dead: Daril Dixon “. Not to say that this would not happen differently, but the trip to France may have supported a greater degree of mystery if the CDC arc never happened, at least in Kirkman’s head. However, the show enjoyed a very healthy run and for a while was the biggest show on the cables. It would be difficult to say that the episode significantly damaged the show.

But how did this episode occur first? In an interview with 2010 with Entertainment weeklyKirkman explained that when discussing an episode with the writer/producer Frank Dorobont, he was sold to the idea, given that he reminded him of one of the greatest sequels that are when -they made: “Day of the Dead” by George A. Romero.

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“When Frank broke this idea, saying that he wanted to bring them to the CDC and tell me about all the different things that, in his opinion, would come out of this story, the science of everything and that I got to a small place, I painted a lot of things” the day of the dead. “

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