{"id":15853,"date":"2015-01-05T21:46:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T02:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=15853"},"modified":"2015-07-03T22:03:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T02:03:07","slug":"the-walking-dead-season-1-episode-6-ts-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/05\/the-walking-dead-season-1-episode-6-ts-19\/","title":{"rendered":"The Walking Dead Season 1 Episode 6: TS-19"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"the-walking-dead-ts-19\"<\/a><\/p>\n

When I first saw the previews to this episode, I was kind of at a loss. I didn\u2019t know if I was angry or excited, but one thing was for sure: the producers ensured audiences that this series would only take what it needed from the comics and carve its own path. If at any point the show lost a portion of their audience, this episode would be the one that pulled them out.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s still a controversial episode, even with the producers jumping back in to the comics in recent episodes. \u201cTS-19\u201d is not a bad episode it\u2019s just not a very necessary one. It\u2019s both a season and series finale that leaves the characters on the road to an uncertain path; just in case AMC didn\u2019t pull in enough ratings to justify a second season, or simply couldn\u2019t afford another season.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s face it: AMC gambled on \u201cThe Walking Dead.\u201d No one wanted to make it in to a show, and AMC rolled the dice and hoped for the best. Had the show been cemented with another season during season one, I think \u201cTS-19\u201d would have been wholly unnecessary and likely left for another date. \u201cTS-19\u201d is just included to, as I mentioned, close up the first arc, while also explaining in detail what a zombie is.<\/p>\n

For horror fans, we already know, but this is the episode proclaiming \u201cThis is what a zombie is, and this is what our zombies are.\u201d It\u2019s literally nothing but a lot of explanation about walkers, the infection, how the world ended, and even what happened to the hospital while Rick was in a coma. Though it\u2019s a very pressing and tense prologue, it\u2019s another pretty superfluous moment as Shane explains later on in the episode why he didn\u2019t take Rick out of the hospital. We saw what happened, so why did we need it explained?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s clear, though, that Shane wasn\u2019t willing to risk his life, either, as he tries to lift Rick out of the hospital alone, momentarily and just says \u201cAw the hell with it\u201d and leaves his pal to fend for himself. It also helps us understand why when the group was stuck in Atlanta, Shane pretty much said \u201cThe hell with them, they\u2019re on their own.\u201d Fans often wonder who the real villain of the first season was and I think it\u2019s not one entity.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the entirety of humanity and how it\u2019s still impossible to get them united to work for one front. Darabont embraces the more disastrous proportions of the series showing how we just can\u2019t work together on one goal and survive. We all have our own vanity, selfishness, and grief that we can\u2019t part with. Jenner is arguably the biggest menace because he just lies down and dies, and convinces Atlanta survivors Jacqui and Andrea to stay behind and accept death, as well.<\/p>\n

\"1x06-TS-19-the-walking-dead\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In that scenario death is really just a quick second without pain. They\u2019d literally dissipate in such immense heat, so why is that moment still so horrifying for everyone? I think it\u2019s the will to fight and live. We all want to see how it ends, and we all want control over our own deaths. Jenner has the best intentions, but he is in no place to decide how everyone should die. Noah Emmerich is a stellar character actor, and he\u2019s a master of shouting dialogue and coming off as erratic.<\/p>\n

He plays it well with Dr. Edwin Jenner who isn\u2019t a bad guy, so much as a man who\u2019s been through the ringer a hundred times over and has decided to tap out. He\u2019s failed and he doesn\u2019t see a point in continuing on, while the group has to once again fight to survive and convince the man that living in the apocalypse is better than a swift, quick, and painless death side by side. He\u2019s simply not a survivor. \u201cTS-19\u201d is an okay episode albeit one that over explains rather than allow us to understand what walkers are.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s solid as a series finale, but a missed opportunity as a season finale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I first saw the previews to this episode, I was kind of at a loss. I didn\u2019t know if I was angry or excited, but one thing was for sure: the producers ensured audiences that this series would only take what it needed from the comics and carve its own path. If at any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[64,477,856,1079,1132,1221],"class_list":["post-15853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-tomb","tag-adaptation","tag-horror","tag-robert-kirkman","tag-the-walking-dead","tag-tv-show","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15856,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15853\/revisions\/15856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}