The Dead will Overrun Again

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Peter Galindo in Entertainment

Peter Galindo

Chronicle Reporter

It is October and The Walking Dead’s new season has finally premiered. Many Walking Dead fans have been anticipating what would happen next, since the season ended on a major cliffhanger. This season’s premiere was quite impressive as it did not “beat around the bush” with flashbacks as some other shows do. *The show went straight to the situation at hand and only a day or so has passed since the last episode*. While I thought that the last season moved a bit slow, this season seems to have a better pacing as it does not really include side stories. The only thing that is slightly off putting is that the walkers are just a small nuisance in this world that has been ravaged by the dead.

The main issue from the last seasons was the conflict between the humans and their development as people. Carol for one is a character who over the other a course of time has changed greatly from being a submissive woman who gets beaten up by her husband daily, to a very strong woman and an integral part of the show. This last episode was packed with many explosions, gore, and troughs, anybody who has seen this episode knows exactly what I am talking about. The second episode, even though it moved a bit slower than than the first one, was pretty great as the characters dealt with some issues brought up in the last episode, but certain things came back to haunt them.

A new character named Father Gabriel Stokes was introduced. The question on everyone’s mind is whether or not the Father can be trusted as he claims to not have killed anyone or any walkers for he is a man of God. Introducing this storyline seems interesting as the father seems like a great person, but as we have seen before, the apocalypse has changed many people. Overall  these two episodes were a great way to start the season, and I really hope that the show does not lose its momentum that it has gained, and hopefully, it may earn back my interest as a show worth willing to watch.