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The Walking Dead Season 2 Doubts

Although we've been waiting like puppy dogs at a window for it, there are a few The Walking Dead Season 2 doubts.

UGO Team By John Lichman August 26, 2011
  

Last Halloween, AMC delivered a massive shock to all of us by bringing Robert Kirkman's first few issues of The Walking Dead into a stunning first episode special. By the end of the first season, fans were treated with an event that never even showed up in the original story. It made fans of the book, which is now in its 14th collected volume, legitimately excited about a zombie show done right. It was a perfect combination of cast, mood and it pushed the boundaries of what a zombie story could be on TV.

Show runner Frank Darabont slipped off his feature director jacket and proved smart comic adaptations could be performed with the right funding and not treating fans like idiots.

Hence why we've come here not to bury Darabont, but praise him. Being dead on arrival in a zombie story can both be a major feat but an unfortunate caveat as well. It's the type of world where nothing can ever be perfect, no matter how hard someone tries, but at least it can't be as bleak as Zack Snyder's version of Dawn of the Dead. Well, not yet anyway.

Like any good survivor, let's trudge forward and we'll go over the some of our The Walking Dead Season 2 doubts.

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The Walking Dead - Season 2 - Hershel
The Walking Dead - Season 2 - Hershel
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Hershel's Farm

Kirkman teased the possibility of "rural areas" and heading to Herschel's farm in an interview with EW last year, along with a lava planet. We think the former is a big possibility in showcasing how Darabont picks and chooses his personal favorite moments from the original comic (Atlanta, the tank, the opening half hour of the pilot) and massages them into his version of The Walking Dead.

The teasers for the second season promise most of the same: running, zombies and hiding. The key difference here being the group doesn't seem to be too gung-ho anymore after watching their last stronghold at the CDC blow up and the second-to-last of the TV-only survivors choosing that over their convoy. In fact, it looks like early on, the signature RV is finally about to give up the ghost for Rick and company before we move on in a spectacular highway chase.

The Walking Dead - Shane's Death
The Walking Dead - Shane's Death
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Southern Gothic

We're finally out of Atlanta and moving deeper into the south, just like in the third volume of the book. Except by now, if you're a regular reader, you'd know we're down a few more folks and specifically a certain law enforcement officer.

The biggest shock for most fans was how long Shane has lasted throughout the first season, with their classic confrontation being lamp shaded toward the end of Episode 5 ("Wildfire") that quickly turns into Darabont's favorite tactic: the fanboy bait and switch. The rumors about where the show is going and who'll show up next is up for grabs. Fans of the series know if the Green Farm is happening early on in Season Two, the prison could easily be our mid-season point and the Governor could be the finale.

Darabont's no stranger to lavish production cost and intricate design, as The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile could teach you, but he's also a methodically slow filmmaker storyteller. The fact that he stretched out the first volume so far should tell you a lot about his preferences. Which in no certain way lead to the 400-lb zombie elephant in the room we'll address later.

The Walking Dead - We Are The Walking Dead!
The Walking Dead - We Are The Walking Dead!
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Games Galore

The second season of The Walking Dead has a lot to live up to. Not only to a massive San Diego Comic-Con panel, but to the new, larger multimedia campaign that is coming out for the series. Telltale Games (the folks responsible for the recent spate in episodic gaming for Sam & Max, Back to the Future and upcoming Jurassic Park) are helming one for Walking Dead. Of course, outside of a few references, nothing is confirmed and everything is questionable, as if this series were being fronted by Ezio Auditore.

The show premieres on October 16h, making an episodic game released in mid-November as the perfect hallway point for the second season. But knowing Telltale, don't expect a run-and-gun or even a simple RPG. They're more in line with the old style of Lucasarts point-and-click by way of whatever they feel like throwing in to make you jump. There's also a Walking Dead board game. C'mon.

 
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