Walking Dead Creator Robert Kirkman Promises a “Bigger” 3rd Season
Robert Kirkman & friends.
Collider.com recently chatted with THE WALKING DEAD creator, Robert Kirkman, who had a few very promising things to say about the upcoming third season. The show is currently filming the third season in Atlanta and it seems with all the great ratings it’s been getting that we’re finally gonna see this up on the screen. According to comic creator Kirkman:
“I think you might see a few more dollars on the screen in the third season. It’s gonna be bigger.”
To tease us even more, Kirkman runs down the shopping list of what’s coming in Season Three:
“We got Merle coming back, we got the Governor, Michonne; all that stuff is known. I’m trying to think of some buzz words or something that I can slip in there that AMC won’t get too angry about. I think there is an escalation that began at the end of the second season and there’s not any kind of drop off. We kind of start off at that point and it gets a little bit bigger and a little bit crazier moving into the introduction of the Governor and all the new elements that are coming in this season.”
SOunds good to me!! I admit that I wasn’t overly thrilled with the direction Season Two took … THE WALKING DEAD is a fantastic show, but I found myself not really looking forward to each week’s new episode. That loos like this is about to change!! Season Three begins on October 14, 2012.
What do you think? Looking forward to Season Three of THE WALKING DEAD?
Stay Bloody!!!
This is my most anticipated show return! I cannot wait for The Walking Dead! Even though the second season was a little slower, per se, certain storylines still enthralled me and I found myself wanting to see if they would be resolved by the end of the season (and boy did we get some surprises!). Things can only get more intense.
I agree that season 2 was a bit slower (I was pretty disappointed), but it’s still more exciting than 90% of the shit on TV!!
Yeah even I have to admit that the direction for THE WALKING DEAD season 2 was a bit weak and I was one of it’s strongest advocates of it for ages. Everyone was telling me that they didn’t think the 2nd season was that good but I kept insisting that “no you don’t understand they’re are focusing more on character development. Character development is good!” Which is true, character development is good and I did really like the first half of the second season for that… butttttttttt the second half of the season really should have picked up the on action, which it didn’t and in fact it lost a lot of its focus on character development as well. The 2nd half of the season just seemed to potter about and didn’t seem really know what to do with it’s self and coming off the first half which was entirely character driven really didn’t do the series any favours.
An example of this which really got to me is Sophia’s death. When Andrea’s sister Amy dies it’s one of the most emotionally heart wrenching scenes ever put to film and the fallout from it is immense, despite the fact that we don’t really know much about Andrea at this point and we never really find out anything about Amy. Carol and Sophia we get to know much much better and a really large chunk of the first half of the season devoted to looking for Sophia. I thought the bit at the end of the mid-season finale where she comes stumbling out of the barn as a Walker was absolutely fantastic. I totally didn’t see it coming and it really blow me away. It genuinely got me very psyched for the next half of the season, where they did…. absolutely fuck all with it! I mean seriously how can we go from Amy, one of the best death scene ever, to Sophia, lacklustre at best. Even Carol barely seems to give a shit a about her own daughters death… what the hell? If her own mother doesn’t care why should we. The most reaction we get is from Daryl but his reaction just seems a bit too on the extreme side and Norman Reedus didn’t really seem to know how to play it, so the whole things comes across as a bit out of character and a bit weird.
Another thing, that guy who gets eaten in van in the last episode when he is trying to pull off a rescues. I seriously did not know who that guy was. I had to actually look it up and rewatch a couple of previous episode just to find out anything about him. Of course when I found out I was like “NOOOOOOOOO!!! Not Background Dude” *sob* “You would have been my favourite background character if you weren’t so in the background Background Dude.” And then Background Girl gets eaten and again of course I was like “NOOOOOOOOO!!! Not Background Girl” *sob* “Oh Background Dude and Background Girl, you two would have been my favourite background couple (not sure if they were a couple but I’m gonna assume they were because what the hell), if you weren’t so weren’t so unnoticeable in the background. Well played background couple, well played.” Seriously though with all the pottering about done in the second half of the season there really could have been (and should have been) an episode devoted entirely to those two characters. It would have made the deaths a lot more dramatic and meaningful. Instead they are just a couple of throw away deaths that no one gives a shit about, including funnily enough, Beth and Hershel… their family members!!! Oh well they weren’t main characters so fuck ‘em right?
One thing I did like though was Shane’s death. Shane was in my opinion the best character on the show. Character’s with a lot of internal conflict are usually really interesting to watch, and Shane certainly had a lot of that. Shane was actually doing fine without Rick but then Rick comes in and literally takes everything away for him. Obviously this is not Rick fault but it was great watching Shane try and completable fail to reconcile with this. Shane’s decent into madness throughout his story arch was truly fantastic and I was genuinely sad when he died. That being said there was no where else his story could have gone and he died at just the right time and in exactly the right way for it to be a good send off to the character.
Still absolutely love this series and really looking forward to season 3
I’m gonna miss Shane. He was definitely the most interesting character.