G and Rick settle their differences peacefully, and looking back on Darryl’s confrontation with the kid in the alley, you can see why the vatos might have mistrusted the new group. Really, this was a whole episode of people being on their best behavior. There’s definitely exposition and backstory, but much of it was handled very well I thought Amy and Andrea reminiscing about fishing trips with their dad, and then trying not to grieve too much for the parents they assume were killed by the walkers, was quite lovely.Īnd after bracing myself to see G and his vatos (who weren’t in the comic, at least not when I was reading it) turn out to be sleazeballs taking advantage of the end of law-and-order, I was pleasantly surprised when it was revealed they were good guys who were just fierce in protecting their own. And, indeed, Kirkman was following the less-is-more aesthetic that Frank Darabont established in the pilot.
FISHING IN THE DARK REMAKE SERIES
You simply can’t have flesh-and-blood actors talk as much as his characters did on the page, not unless the entire series would be constructed as a series of post-apocalyptic walk-and-talks like “The West Wing,” and even that would need some trims.
Instead, Kirkman turned in the strongest episode since the pilot. But when I saw that this was the episode Kirkman had written, I was curious to see whether the things that ultimately drove me from the comic would be more obvious here than in previous episodes. The comic’s many fans obviously disagree, and good for them. That seemed both plausible and thematically appropriate for a zombie story – the genre tends to be about the danger we pose to each other, with the zombie apocalypse itself just there to put the survivors on edge and wipe out the social contract – but issue after issue of it began to feel like a wallow to me. I’m not opposed to character development, big themes and all that I just found Kirkman’s execution of it to be clunky.īut I’d have kept reading if not for the big one: I found the series too monotonously bleak, not just in how frequently zombies would pop up to eat people, but in how so many of the strangers our heroes met turned out to be dangerous, self-interested sociopaths enjoying the new world (dis)order. The small: Kirkman’s dialogue bothered me with its wordiness, as the story was always grinding to a halt so Rick or someone else could give a big speech about who they are, where they came from, what the new world meant, etc. I stopped reading the comic sometime around issue 30 for a couple of reasons, one small, one big. “Vatos” was written by Robert Kirkman, who created this world and most of these characters in “The Walking Dead” comic book, and it wasn’t quite what I expected – in a very good way.
A review of tonight’s “The Walking Dead” coming up just as soon as I stroll the streets of Atlanta with just my good intentions…
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