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AMCs The Walking Dead: Season 1 Recap and Spoilers E01
December 13, 2010
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The first thing I did when I heard AMC was creating a television
series based off the comic series,
The Walking Dead was leap out of my chair and do my happy dance.
Not only was there finally going
to be a television series about living in a post-apocalyptic,
world in which the dead have risen, but it was
going to be based off Robert Kirkmans amazing comic series, The
Walking Dead. Needless to say,
before the beginning of the season, I had already read each and
every issue of the comic series in
preparation for the premier of The Walking Dead this past
Halloween, 2010. Every week, I was glued
to my television for an hour in horror and suspense as I watched
Rick Grimes cope with his world on
screen.
The first episode of the season was entitled Days Gone By, an
appropriate title to a reader of
the comic series as it was the title of the first issue of The
Walking Dead (Image Trade Paperback). The
episode begins as we are introduced to the main character,
Officer Rick Grimes, and his coworker, Shane
Walsh, played by Andrew Lincoln and Jon Bernthal, respectively.
Rick gets shot in the line of duty, and istaken to the hospital
where he lay in a coma for quite some time. When he finally comes
to, he finds the
hospital void of all life. When he leaves the hospital into the
outside world, he realized the situation
extended further than he had ever expected. Dead bodies lay on
the street; some covered in shrouds,
and many flies swarming the corpses, aiding the
decomposition.
Focused on finding his family, he wanders home in search of his
wife and son, Lori and Carl,
played by Sarah Wayne Callies and Chandler Riggs, respectively.
On the way, he meets a man, Morgan
Jones, and his son, Duane, respectively played by Lennie Jones
and Adrian Kali Turner, taking refuge in a
neighbors house. After being mistaken as an undead attacker and
nearly being knocked back into a
coma by a shovel, Morgan and Duane explain to Rick the dire
situation they are all facing; the world has
been overrun by corpses who have risen from the dead. Outside,
Morgans undead wife, played byKeisha Tillis, was still wandering
outside the house in search of living flesh. After returning home
in
search of Lori and Carl, he discovers that they are gone, and
items were missing from his home, such as
photos and mementos. After determining from this evidence that
they had left for safety camp, Morgan
informed him that such a camp had been assembled in Atlanta.
Rick and Morgan headed for the Police
Station where Rick had once worked and loaded up on weapons and
supplies. After saying his goodbyes
to Morgan and Duane, Rick headed off for the city in search of
his wife.
Upon his arrival in the city, Rick was met by hordes of the
walking dead. Rick was cornered and
sought cover inside of an abandoned tank. With mobs of walkers
scratching at the tank, he saw no hope.
All of a sudden, a voice broke the air. It was the radio. Hey
you Dumbass Yeah, you in the tank. Cozy
in there?
I thought this was an amazing episode. Everything from the cast
to the particular camera angles
of the scenes, I thought this pilot was an amazing episode.
Everything came together beautifully. The
intensity of the first scene with the car chase was very
engaging, and was a great hook to the first
episode. The way they transitioned Rick going from the scene of
the shooting to waking up in the
hospital was perfect and followed the comic book very closely.
This episode was in no way to the t
with the comic series, but it had enough of the originality that
made me comfortable. This included the
relationship between Rick and Shane, meeting Morgan and Duane,
and the scene where Rick rides on
