The Walking Dead’s success story is remarkable. In 2010, the film adaptation of the comic of the same name written by Robert Kirkman started on the US broadcaster AMC. There will be eleven seasons by 2021 177 episodes in total appeared, not to mention numerous spin-off series.
The Walking Dead definitely touched a nerve with the times and continues to captivate fans over a decade later. Still, there is one episode that Kirkman likes deleted from TWD history would. No, it’s not about Rick’s supposed death in season 9, but the finale of the debut round.
Controversial The Walking Dead episode: Robert Kirkman is also not a fan of the CDC detour
With six episodes, the first season of The Walking Dead is the shortest. If Kirkman had her way, she would only have five. The creator of the zombie franchise revealed to the Hollywood Reporter in 2014 that he prefers… TS-19 (Season 1, Episode 6). In the episode we get very close to the origin of the zombie apocalypse in a laboratory with a scientific explanation:
If I [The Walking Dead] would do again, I would delete the CDC episode. She may have given away too much information and was a big change early on in the series.
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Rick Grimes and Co. at the CDC
CDC stands for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services responsible for the control and prevention of epidemics and diseases. Because the CDC is well-informed, the episode also touched on the situation in other countries. Kirkman says:
In the comics I was very careful that I don’t reveal what’s happening in other parts of the world. I imagine it would be exciting to explore this in a spin-off series. But the fact that France and other things [in der CDC-Episode] In retrospect, I definitely should have left it out.
In principle, Kirkman is right: The Walking Dead, especially in its first seasons, relies on the fact that we watch people in the naked fight for survival and have no idea whether there is anything else out there a piece of civilization exists. However, looking at the franchise’s recent developments, the CDC episode was nothing short of prophetic, paving the way for many spin-offs.
While The Walking Dead: World Beyond explores the zombie virus by Dr. As Jenner came to the fore, the spin-off The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon actually expanded to France. The situation there is just as dreary as in the USA: zombies as far as the eye can see.
Horror replenishment: Where is The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon showing?
The Daryl series starts in Germany on December 8, 2023 on the streaming service MagentaTV. The spin-off The Walking Dead: Dead City with Maggie and Negan was also recently shown there, which also explores a part of the TWD universe that we have never seen before: run-down New York.
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