Hey youtubers it’s Charlie and there’s a whole lot of Walking Dead stuff going on
right now so I’ll try to cover it all in this video.
First AMC just officially ordered a pilot for the Spinoff TV Series.
So I’ll do a big update on what’s going on with that.
I know a lot of you want to know what it’s about and some are wondering why they’re
even making a spinoff.
And Norman Reedus posted a potentially spoilery Daryl image to facebook yesterday.
So after spinoff talk I’ll explain what that was all about.
Hint, it might not be a spoiler.
Especially if he posted it to his mega facebook page.
So don’t freak out yet.
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Now, important stuff first.
WTF is the spinoff all about and why haven’t they been talking about it more?
The Spinoff is going to be a completely different group of characters not in or around the places
featured on the main tv show right now.
So no Georgia, no Washington, no Terminus.
Somewhere else presumably in America.
It’s possible they could choose to shoot it in Vancouver to save money on production,
but for all intents and purposes the story will still be based in the United States.
The idea of a Walking Dead show taking place in Europe or China would be cool, but those
types of shows usually happen when Studios sell the rights in other countries.
For instance, Breaking Bad sold the rights to the show in Mexico, so there’s a hispanic
version of Breaking Bad with it’s own set of characters.
The story is pretty much the same but the show is called Metastasis and instead of being
Walter White, the main character is Walter Blanco.
It’s Breaking Bad produced in spanish instead of being subtitled or dubbed.
So if you want to see what’s happening in south america right now
in the walking dead universe.
That would probably be how it would happen.
Right now the spinoff has just been greenlit for a pilot.
Meaning AMC will pay 4 or 5 million dollars for them to produce a one or two hour pilot
episode.
AMC will then either decide to order it to series or they’ll pass on it and try for
another spinoff in a couple years.
There have been a lot of rumors about when the story would take place.
The biggest theory is that it would cover the time leading up to the virus outbreak.
I don’t think that’s true but it’s one of the better theories.
It’s more likely that Robert Kirkman, who’s working on the pilot himself, will try to
capitalize on the aspects of the Walking Dead Universe that people love the most.
And Walking Dead is all about people trying to survive in the fallout.
Making a show about an impending viral outbreak would be more like a procedural.
It would be more like World War Z, with everyone dealing with the outbreak.
When I think it’s so much more interesting to see the aftermath.
If you look at the Walking Dead Telltale game, it’s got an amazing narrative with a completely
different group of characters taking place concurrently with events in the comic book.
I think the spinoff will do a similar thing.
I think the success of the telltale game gives Robert Kirkman a lot of confidence that a
completely different story set during the same time period is still something people
want.
Here’s a big question for you guys, let me know in the comments.
If it had to take place in the United States.
Where would you want the spinoff to take place, in a big city or in another rural area like
Macon Georgia where Terminus is supposed to be?
Or do you totally not care where it is?
There’s this really weird thing I’ve noticed with the fandom.
Right now Walking Dead is the most popular show on cable, by a wide margin.
It’s more popular than Game of Thrones because Game of Thrones is on a premium cable channel.
So fewer people subscribe and have access to it.
But even though Walking Dead is so popular and makes crazy dump trucks of money.
I see it get a lot of hate from some of the core audience.
Like people in general love it, but there’s a large group of people that also really hate
it.
Let me know where you fall on the spectrum.
Personally I’ve already bought my ticket and I’ll ride the train all the way to Hogwarts
or Terminus depending on where you think the show will end.
I’m of the opinion that when it does end it will be more ambiguous, like a few of the
characters will just trudge on into the distance and try to keep surviving.
I don’t think they’ll ever cure the virus.
That’s not what the show is about.
It’s about surviving to the last breath.
Surviving with machine guns.
But eventually you have to run out of bullets, this isn’t a Rambo movie where you have
unlimited ammo.
Speaking of unlimited ammo, Daryl and his crossbow were spotted on set.
Norman Reedus posted a picture that teases something from the comics but really I think
it’s a misdirect.
I don’t think he’d ever do something so stupid as to spoil a big reveal.
I’m going to talk more about Daryl in general, but for a couple of these images I’ll say
potential spoiler warning.
I’ll leave this hashtag up for the duration.
Everybody ready...okay, here we go.
So Norman Reedus posted a couple images with greg nicotero on set.
He has a bloodied hand in one of them and in another picture, there’s a hand on the
ground with the caption “Divorced”.
Notice the wedding ring on his hand.
The hand in the first picture, this one.
Is a different hand than the one on the ground here.
So clearly he’s messing with us.
The whole thing had people nuts because it’s a twist on another big character in the comics
getting their hand chopped off.
Just to answer the biggest question.
No I do not think Daryl will get his hand chopped off, I don’t remember him even wearing
a wedding ring.
And they’re not going to maim one of the main characters unless they intend to kill
them off.
Hershel’s leg made sense because that character isn’t the crazy action based fighting person
Rick or Daryl or Abraham are.
Season 5 is all about action.
So yes, someone will get their hand chopped off, but I don’t think it will be Rick or
Daryl.
What I do think will happen is some random person will get a hand chopped off and it
will be the show’s way of winking at the comic books without having to go through the
burden of writing around a missing hand for the next 3 or 4 seasons.
Spoilers over.
There was a shot in the trailer of Carl with an eye patch, which mirrors something from
the comics, but I don’t think any of the bigger lead characters will suffer crazy maiming
injuries.
There have been lots of rumors about one of them dying, but at this point, the show has
diverged so much from the comics, I try to not make huge comic predictions.
Norman Reedus spent a lot of time talking about Season 5 Daryl.
And for me at least in season 4, he was one of the more interesting people on the show.
He said that he’s going to be much more feral this year.
As in feral cat, with a large weapon.
It’s really interesting to see how his character has changed from season 1 to now.
I feel like Rick has re-taken the leadership role but it almost felt like farmer rick meant
Daryl was going to step up and be the new prison leader.
Even though technically they had the council.
When we first met him and Meryl in season 1 he was so much more of an outsider.
That whole beth two part episode filled in a lot of his childhood too.
He had a pretty shitty upbringing, an like a lot of children of abuse, he didn’t turn
into the happiest most social of creatures.
In a way, the apocalypse has been really good to him.
In order to survive he’s had to learn to be around and trust people.
He still shrugs his way through conversations, but I really do think he feels like Rick’s
brother.
I think he totally believed it when he and Rick were talking the morning after the big
WTF Claimers scene.
Rick hasn’t replaced Meryl, but Daryl is just open to the idea of the survivors as
his family and friends.
He’s not the Navel gazing grumpy person from season 1, I think watching him learn
to become a normal human has been half the fun of the character.
The Crossbow really does it for me too.
The crossbow is where a lot of the fun is.
Season 5 is obviously a bit of a dog fight in terms of the first half of the season.
I had thought they’d wait till season 6 to do the Road to Washington DC, but it seems
like based on production images, shit will go down at Terminus very very fast.
So Daryl’s arc in season 5 isn’t going to be so much about integrating with the group,
it will be more like Rick’s.
A lot of ass kicking for about 8 episodes.
I think when he lost Beth he kind of stalled out emotionally, had she not been taken he
probably would have continued to open up.
Maybe smiled a lot more.
But remember what he looked like when the Claimers found him.
He was just slumped down in the middle of the road in a pile of fail.
It was like he regressed completely.
The whole shit show at terminus is going to jump start him in a big way.
Like Norman Reedus said, you stick him in a train car, he’s going to turn in to a
feral cat.
What happens when you open the door.
He jumps out claws first.
The thing I’m most looking forward to from Daryl in Season 5 is the reunion with Beth.
Which probably won’t happen for a long time.
I feel like once he finds beth again he’ll get some closure on season 4 and he’ll be
able to start becoming a better human being again.
But let me know in the comments, what are you most excited to see Daryl do in season
5.
Besides kill a lot of people with the crossbow?
I probably won’t do a Q&A video for this just because of Korra and Doctor Who this
weekend, but now that we’re getting closer to the premiere I’m going to start doing
more bonus videos.
So feel free to leave me suggestions for things you guys want to talk about.
My next bonus video will probably post next Friday and I’ll probably do another character
video be sure to subscribe to get it, maybe for Carl or Rick or maybe Michonne.
I’ll get to them all eventually.
right now click here for my breakdown of the season 5 trailer and click here to learn about
some of the new characters this season.
Thanks for watching, see you guys tonight.
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