Full disclosure I have a bias towards Darabont. I view him as the best showrunner by miles and think AMC's treatment of him borders negligence. Season 1 was fantastic, cinematic, coherent, had a fantastic cast, and my only gripes are Andrew Lincoln's early Rick accent and maybe the CDC. Both overall minor. But I've noticed many hated Darabont's interpretation of the walkers. Mostly over their quicker speed and their use of tools like the Season 1 walker using a rock to bust through a department room store.
What many miss is that this is actually the original way modern zombies were portrayed. The late great George A. Romero's zombies used bludgeons in his Dead Trilogy. In Dawn of the Dead a scientist is overheard explaining their primitive use of rudimentary tools and limited reasoning skills. As for their speed, that could be due to the early stage of the outbreak and the walkers have not yet decayed enough to slow. On top of everything in one of the comic issues(I can't recall which) a character mentions seeing walkers use knives before.
But my main defense is plot oriented. The walkers have become to much of a threat when convenient rather than an ever present threat. The walker using that rock added urgency to that situation as opposed to walker's just shambling against a door. Morgan's wife seemingly coming home every night added a new level of emotional stress on our characters.
Submitted December 02, 2017 at 02:23PM by ooooohnoyobogoya http://ift.tt/2BtBYVh
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