The real reason for which Dale Jeffrey Dale died in the “Walking Dead” season 2 season

It is difficult to be a wise character of the old man on “walking dead”. If you are not beheaded by the governor with a sword (rest in peace, Gershel!), Tami, probably, you open your stomach with a wandering walk. That’s what happened to the poor Dale (Jeffrey Demun), a guy who held a voice the cause of the main group of survivors, nearly two full seasons earlier His untimely death on “walking dead”. Or sometimes Dale’s moral code brought it to Goody-Two-Shoes? Eh, probably. But it is better to have too much scruples than at all, and the group was even worse than its absence.

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In the episode 2 season “Walking Dead” of the 2nd season, jury, “Dale patrols on the farm at night when he sees partially devised cow. He goes to the investigation to only put a surprise. . Daril (Norman Redus) ultimately runs away and kills the walker, but so far, the Dale has already been deadly, leaving little choice except shooting.

This is different from how everything is played in the comics of “walking dead”. There, the Dale is captured by a group of cannibals that plan to keep it alive, while cutting their body parts for food. But the joke on the cannibals, because the Dale shows that he bit his walker shortly before they seized it, and when they ate leg, they used spoiled meat. Walking Dead fans recognize this storyline as the one that happened to Bob (Lawrence Gilliard JR.) in the 5 season; This means that if the series was accurate for comic books, Dale would have to be three more seasons. Why would he be discharged so fast?

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Most importantly, you need to know about the demuna is that he was (and so far) a longtime friend of director Frank Dorobont, a shower in the first season “The Walking Dead”. Dorobont and Demun had previously collaborated on “Shawshank Redemption”, “Green Mile” and “The Mist”, and hoped to work together on “The Walking Dead” before the higher AMC complicated everything.

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During the early production on “The Walking Dead” 2 season, AMC pushed Dorobont out of the show from his many differences with them about the budget and the creative direction of the show. Dorobont is still responsible for what happens in the 2 season, but mostly Showrunner’s duties were switched to Glen Macar (which will continue to work until the end of 3 season). A complete story of how Dorobon was loaded with “walking dead”, long and dirty, but the essence of this To Dorobont treated badlyAnd the demun was not satisfied with it.

“I was angry like Frank (Dorobont) pushed out of the show,” explained at Cleveland.com in 2018. “I spent a week, unable to suffocate. And then I realized, ‘Oh, I can throw.” So I called them and said,’ This is a zombie show. It was a huge relief for me. “

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The circumstances of the departure depress, but at least the writers of the show were handled with them. Dale’s death itself is filled with a bunch of interesting characters: Big – this is when Rick (Andrew Lincoln) cannot make itself shoot with Dale in the head and it’s something that later. Instead, the growl must allow Daril to pick up his gun; This development that both establishes increasing confidence between the two characters and means the level of innocence that Rick still has at the moment in the series.

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The second great moment of the character here is Carl (Chandler Riggs). At that moment, young Carl was experiencing a little ill -advised series at the show. Earlier in the episode, Carl mocked the trap of the walker outside the farm; However, when Walker releases himself and rushes for him, Carl runs away and tells no one. When Dale lies on the ground, dying, Carl looks around and realizes that the walker that killed him was the same one he had mocked before. Carl devastated, realizing that he indirectly responsible for Dale’s death, but the incident also causes him to come together. One main (but compassionate) exception of Carl, finally stops wandering around the house after this episode.

In the long run you can see the effect of the lack of Dale in the series through the moral decrease of Rick and the rest of your group. Very at the beginning of the 3rd season we see that Rick is a much more hardened person than 2 season. At one point he even kills the prisoner Machete and does not seem to feel bad; The prisoner in question was very angry, but Rick did not lead with him so fast. Other heroes eventually challenge Rick to become a better person for the next few seasons, but none of them have spent the same fall as Dale. I don’t know if there were “walking dead” better after Dale died, but it was definitely much darker.

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