{"id":35982,"date":"2021-10-11T07:34:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T11:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=35982"},"modified":"2021-10-11T07:36:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T11:36:05","slug":"five-questions-im-still-asking-about-the-walking-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/11\/five-questions-im-still-asking-about-the-walking-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Questions I\u2019m Still Asking About \u201cThe Walking Dead\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As with all good things, it come to an ends eventually, and \u201cThe Walking Dead\u201d is finally ending in 2022. Although AMC has yet to finish finding new ways to tell Robert Kirkman\u2019s story, the OG series is coming to a close. I have mixed feelings about it, since every year from 2010 \u201cThe Walking Dead\u201d was an event for me.<\/p>\n

I eagerly looked forward to it every single Sunday for so many years. Now that they\u2019ve decided to end it, there are five lingering questions that I\u2019ve had since Season Two. This has a lot to do with the fact that AMC screwed original show runner Frank Darabont leaving Season Two and Three to feel messy and unfocused, but they\u2019ve yet to really offer ideas or thoughts on these questions I\u2019m still wondering about.<\/p>\n

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What Ever happened to the Vatos from Season One?
\n<\/strong>When Rick and his group met the Vatos in season one, their story didn\u2019t seem to be going anywhere but down. They were a group of well meaning men who retreated to an elderly home, they enforced it and lived on whatever they could find with elderly patients relying on them. They were stuck foraging for food and supplies in the zombie infested Atlanta and were left with some mere fire arms, and dwindling hope.<\/p>\n

In the alternate\/original season premiere for season two we learn that their shelter was raided and everyone (including the elderly) were slaughtered by scavengers. But since that\u2019s not at all canon, I\u2019d love to know what ever became of them? They couldn\u2019t have kept that place up and running for too long. Did they meet the Saviors? It\u2019s a shame we never got a solid canon explanation for what ever became of them.<\/p>\n

Was the group that Rick killed in “Nebraska” associated with The Governor?
\n<\/strong>It\u2019s not entirely out of the ordinary that another group of violent scavengers found Rick, Hershel and Glenn and decided to persuade them in to taking them to the farm. But I often wonder if the writers were alluding to the Governor in the season two episode \u201cNebraska.\u201d By the time season two arrived, the comic books were well past the governor\u2019s storyline, so were these men part of the Governor\u2019s squad? Were they just random assholes that came at the wrong time? We never did find out.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>What did Frank Darabont have planned for T-Dog in Season Two? Was he going to become the series\u2019 first villain?
\n<\/strong>During the beginning of Season Two, T-Dog goes through a bit of a change after nearly being killed on the highway by the herd. He starts ranting to Dale about how he can\u2019t trust Rick, Shane, or Daryl, and he even tries to convince Dale to get in the RV and leave everyone behind. Oddly enough after some medication from his infected cut, and some stitches the issue is dropped, but during the well sequence, he seems fairly fed up.<\/p>\n

So was Darabont planning to turn T-Dog in to a turn coat? Was T-Dog going to plot against Rick or Shane? Was he going to abandon everyone and end up with the Governor like Merle? Was he going to head down a path of self destruction like Shane? Sadly, that plot thread is left lingering with T-Dog dying in the first few episodes of Season Three, and the rant he gives ends up hanging there and is quickly forgotten. I wish we\u2019d been given some answers as it would have been a fascinating development.<\/p>\n

Did The Governor Know About the Civic Republic Military Helicopters that Appear throughout the series?
\n<\/strong>Along with stealing everyone else\u2019s resources and pillaging settlements, the Governor seemed to know something about the Civic Republic Helicopters (that have become big plot elements of the series and the spin offs \u201cFear\u201d and \u201cWorld Beyond\u201d). At least it was implied in some scenes. Apart from attacking settlements, the Governor also inexplicably ambushed a few military units in the process and was fishing for answers from the soldiers that he\u2019d imprisoned. Was he working toward finding out where they originated from? Was he looking for a cure?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>What the hell happened to Heath?
\n<\/strong>The disappearance of Heath is one of the laziest exits that the series ever composed. After introducing Heath, a heavyweight from the comic series, he is played featured very little during the series until he\u2019s ultimately lost in a horde of walkers. Only his glasses are left behind and little else. Star Corey Hawkins who portrayed Heath exited the series abruptly to star in the \u201c24\u201d limited reboot, leaving a very crucial character to the comic book lore to feel like a cheap feature player and nothing else. It\u2019s a shame we didn\u2019t see the potential Heath had and what he brought to the fight against the walkers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As with all good things, it come to an ends eventually, and \u201cThe Walking Dead\u201d is finally ending in 2022. Although AMC has yet to finish finding new ways to tell Robert Kirkman\u2019s story, the OG series is coming to a close. I have mixed feelings about it, since every year from 2010 \u201cThe Walking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,17],"tags":[64,302,477,1079,1087,1219,1221],"class_list":["post-35982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-list-junkies","category-tv-tomb","tag-adaptation","tag-drama","tag-horror","tag-the-walking-dead","tag-thriller","tag-zombie-apocalypse","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35982","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=35982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35986,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35982\/revisions\/35986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}