Frank Darabont Talks ‘The Walking Dead’ Season Two, Loses More of My Respect
Seriously, I mean, ok, ‘The Mist’ was a bit underwhelming and ‘The Green Mile’ had Tom Hanks, who is kind of my nemesis, but I will always treasure Shawshank (who doesn’t?), so even knowing Frank Darabont was involved with ‘The Walking Dead’ hurt, it really did.
Still, his continued involvement mystifies and offends me in my ZRC capacity:
Frank Darabont was a double winner at the Saturn Awards. The Walking Dead won Best TV Presentation, and Darabont himself was awarded the George Pal Memorial Award by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror. With everyone in attendance excited about season two of The Walking Dead, Darabont had a few spoilers to share.
First the article mentions that the second season will cover the comic book’s farm story arc, which we talked about on the blog previously, and then we get into some stuff about character development:
“Those relationships are developing. These people are actually really getting to know each other over the course of this season. Largely they were strangers from one another in the first season except for a few of those characters, obviously. Now they’re becoming just one big dysfunctional family and that’s really fun to write. That’s really fun to concoct the stories and be in the room with the writers that I have and talk through all the possibilities.”
Again we see the obsessive focus on only the LIVING characters. What about the Zombies, Mr. Darabont? What about them?
I guess nobody really cares about them at AMC. Go figure.
Well, WE care, Mr. Darabont. The ZRC cares. And we’re going to keep after you Walking Dead types in the future. It’s just a shame it had to come to this, and a shame that so many people who we might otherwise have respected have decided to sign on to making Anti-Zombie propaganda like ‘The Walking Dead’
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