AMC’s The Walking Dead is slowly dying, from the inside.
When the show first came out in 2010 and received some decent views, it was great, more like a mini-series hit.
Then when it came to season 4 this year, everything changed. Change is good, mind you, but a show about the end of the human population going on such an uneven pace, exposed its fatal wound to the world-the story.
The cast and characters are great, the acting I can’t say much about. For a walker dominated world, survival is vital. But people died, and so did the show. They don’t have too many time for the epic tale to go on, too many time spent on one character and then suddenly, he or she was dead, but that didn't create such a emotional drive for the audience, the effect is not as great and as unexpected as Game of Thrones, certainly the character held less of an importance, and because we all knew, sooner or later, they would die, somewhere, somehow. It just couldn't make us care more.
The latest episode 8 in season 4, it tried to recreate the what the media called The Red Wedding from Game of Thrones, but people, these are totally different things. Yes, there were massacre in both shows. However, we should not compare the two, they are different. And sure The Walking Dead did not deliver the same amount of thrill, mostly because it dread on the story of the Governor and thus, made it even worse.
How will it goes, no one knows except the writers of the show, but one thing is for certain, walker must die, and so will the characters.
I guess the saying is true:
“You Either Die a Hero, or Live Long Enough to See Yourself Become the Villain.”
Including a queer character such as the Governor, a psychopathic agent of violent other than the mindless zombies is not a bad call, but the execution in telling the story of that, downplayed the cinematic effect just for that insanity.
The pacing was extremely dreadful like a slow death, maybe the creators are trying to achieve it, and certainly they did, but what is the motive? Is there anything exciting coming after the mid-season, or would it be the same boring tell-tale of the big bad Governor taking on a bunch of survivors? Was it worth it to waste the whole season to create something that might not even be much a hype?
The end is but a crumble, just like the season 1 poster for The Walking Dead.
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