Monday, July 1, 2013

Walking Dead Season 2: A Debacle? Or Another Hit Success


Generally, a score of 80 from a total of 100 is too high for a movie review, but for some people’s point of view, Walking Dead Season 2 was a debacle. These were personal views drawn from too much expectation. A debacle for a description may or may not be actually real. The sudden rout of the series from its magical first season was pretty much understandable. Great things were expected from Walking Dead Season 2 which started airing in Oct 2011, a year after Walking Dead Season 1 premiered. More exhilarating plots were anticipated, and an elevated plot was assumed. Although, the production team had maintained the same high levels of craftsmanship shown in Walking Dead Season I, people were not just satisfied with the same fighting routines, the same presentation of the conflicts, and the seemingly dragging human-zombie confrontation. The plot was relatively slow at the first part of the season. Walking Dead Season 2 has introduced easy-resolved conflicts in its 13 episodes that diminished the presentation of each character quickly. 

Debacle may be too much of a word to describe the feat of Walking Dead Season 2. The season’s production team has coped with more intensified pressure, meeting the demands of an increased 9 million fans who watched the final episode of the season. However, in a technical view point, Walking Dead Season 2 offered the same magic as Walking Dead Season 1; although it was not just enough to level the high expectation of its viewers across the globe. A debacle means total failure, which could not pass as a widely accepted description of Walking Dead Season 2 at all.

In Walking Dead Season 2, Rick Grimes has successfully escaped out of the DDC which exploded as part of the building’s safety protocol. With the inaudible whisper from the last surviving Doctor, Dr Jenner, Grimes was on a new challenge towards uncovering the mystery of this post-apocalyptic world filled with dead people walking. The scenes in the series presented the dilemma of the characters between considering Zombies as human beings or continuously kill the walkers without mercy, to defeat the walker’s growing force and dominance in this world. The scenes maintained the human side of the characters presenting sex, in the midst of a chaotic environment with imminent danger created by the Zombie existence. Fear, anger, jealousy, selfishness, and concern for fellow survivors were presented in a more credible way. The addition of five more writers to the production team to its original writers may have created a change in the production, but over-all, the second season was as successful as the first.

Technically, I have maintained high praises for the Walking Dead Season 2 production, but my friends have different outlook than mine. These are technicalities that people may have different perception to. You on the other hand can maintain an open mind, considering the realities of human existence in a hypothetically zombie world and your own personal touch to the story if you were the show’s main runner. Today, Walking Dead Series maintains its reputation to be the most viewed TV show on cable with viewership getting higher every season.  



No comments:

Post a Comment