iFanboy | Conor Kilpatrick | AMC Greenlights Walking Dead PilotAs you may or may not already know, AMC has officially greenlit a pilot for Walking Dead.
What does that mean? Well it means that Frank Darabont has been given the go ahead to shoot and deliver a pilot episode to AMC for series consideration. Does it mean we will definitely get a Walking Dead series from the network that brings us two of the best dramas on TV -- Mad Men and Breaking Bad? No, it doesn't. All it means at this point is that they are going to make a pilot and if it doesn't get picked up for series we might not even ever see it. So let's cross our fingers.
Huzzah! Walking Dead is a great series, as I have mentioned several times here. Most recently when I advised you to read it instead of watching The Road, I believe.
By the way, Breaking Bad may be the most under-rated show on television right now. I'd put it toe-to-toe with Mad Men any day, and I don't know of a single person who watches it.
By the way, Breaking Bad may be the most under-rated show on television right now. I'd put it toe-to-toe with Mad Men any day, and I don't know of a single person who watches it.
I watch Breaking Bad. Awesome stuff.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait for Walking Dead - I read the comic religiously ... and so should everyone!
My company, HeavyInk.com, sells it:
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I get my modest amount of comics from libraries or by way of Amazon gift certificates, but I did just make my very first HeavyInk order -- an Atomic Robo shirt.
ReplyDeleteI watch Breaking Bad as well, great television, no doubt. I didn't care for the first Walking Dead though. I found the characters stiff and unforgivably one-dimensional. And the author's belief that we would so quickly fall into primitive gender modes is just, I don't know, gutless and and sophomoric? It doesn't take a man's naturally more muscular physique to fire a pistol.
ReplyDeleteI think they flesh out pretty nicely later on. Michone, a woman who doesn't show up for a couple of volumes if I remember correctly, is the biggest bad-ass of the group as far as I'm concerned. There's also a decently nuanced explanation of why the two women shack up with Dale in the RV which moves beyond established gender roles.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't say that Kirkman thinks that the given gender roles are how the event would actually play out. Rather, he is writing some characters who are reverting to established norms as a coping mechanism, as a way of clinging to something familiar and safe after the world is turned upside down.