The television franchise The Walking Dead will soon celebrate its fifteenth anniversary. If the comics by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore, from which the series is adapted, appeared from 2003, the series only appeared on our screens in 2010. And while in recent times, the saga has been divided into numerous series, with Dead City which sees Negan and Maggie face a new threat in New York, The Ones Who Live who finds the star-crossed lovers Rick and Michonne, and Daryl Dixon which sends the hero to France and whose season 2 will soon be broadcast, Tele-Leisure wanted to refocus on the roots of the phenomenon and rewatch the very first episode. If everyone remembers Rick waking up, alone in the hospital, and gradually discovering the tragedy of the epidemic, this one-hour pilot has surprises in store but also reinforces certain (bad) memories…
The Walking Dead : this huge inconsistency which shocked us at the start of the series
We may remember that season 1 of The Walking Deadwhose creator finally answered this big question from fans, was filmed in May 2010, we can't help but be surprised by some missed achievements. Shaky camera, falling shots, shaky framing… For a series produced in the 21st century, such errors are not necessarily forgivable. But the horror and storyline power outweighed the technical flaws and succeeded in captivating fans. Except that, when we rewatch the first episode in the light of the ten seasons that followed, the series actually begins with a huge inconsistency.
You may remember this introductory scene where Rick (Andrew Lincoln), dressed in his sheriff's outfit and his iconic hat, wanders the countryside in search of gasoline. He then comes across a gas station and a mass of wrecked cars then comes across a little blonde girl, seen from behind. And that's where the incoherence begins: Rick, slipped under a car, sees it bending down to pick up its teddy bear. A first action which seems unthinkable since the child is supposed to have already been transformed into a walker for a while. Rick then starts calling him. He addresses her three times before she stops facing away. He then has time to approach and say a whole sentence to her before she turns around. Completely inconsistent behavior with that of walkers in the rest of the seriesvery alert to sounds and reacting immediately to those that are out of the ordinary. She will then take a few more seconds to attack. A humanization and a latency of reaction which opposes the rest of the series.
Oops, we had completely skipped Duane from The Walking Dead
Later in the episode, after Rick wakes up from the hospital, he is taken in by Morgan (Lennie James) and his son. The tandem squats in a house near that of Rick and Lori, and takes the police officer under their wing to bring him up to speed on the situation in the country. It must be admitted that the story is touching: father and son come face to face after Jenny, the mother, is bitten. They observe him prowling the neighborhood night after night. Head-slap at the beginning, Duane, Morgan's son, quickly proves touching. But apparently not to the point of making an impression since it must be admitted, we had completely skipped his presence in the first episode. However, we remembered its existence, cited several times in The Walking Dead and its first spin-off, Fear The Walking Dead.
The Walking Dead : we remember why we hated Lori from the start
But the memory that was still vivid and which was only reinforced in this first episode was how detestable we found the character of Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies), and by extension, her duo with Shane (Jon Bernthal). The beginning of the episode introduces the friendship between Shane and Rick, at the time all handsome and clean with his beautiful crew cut. But as soon as Lori is mentioned in the passenger compartment of their sheriff's deputy car, it's impossible not to see the clues left by Shane's reaction to his relationship with Lori. Worse still, the second part of the episode shows the first images of the camp where Lori, Carl (Chandler Riggs) and Shane took refuge with strangers. While Carl, at the age of eleven and with his tiny face that we didn't yet have an irrepressible desire to put in his place, appears in a rather positive way, the same cannot be said for Lori and Shane. As soon as she tries to assert herself, Shane rebuffs her. In the process, she accepts this self-proclaimed alpha male behavior with a fiery embrace. Beyond the adultery itself, which we understand dates from before the apocalypse, it is his insolence which annoys him, not even taking the trouble to hide from his son by closing the tent . It is easy to bash the adulterous woman and, deep down, that is not what she is accused of. What sticks are the beginnings of a selfish character who will annoy until his death in season 3. You don't know what you've escaped, my good Judith. The Walking Dead: 15 years later, what has become of Madison Lintz who played Sophia, Carol's daughter?
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