By the end of The Walking Dead‘s short first season, which followed a perfect premiere with a disappointing lack of character development, we were finding it hard to care whether the show’s band of zombie-apocalypse survivors lived or died. In fact, we weren’t sure we’d keep following the series in its second season — especially after the first trailer did nothing to convince us that we’d be in for anything more than Rick Grimes’ heroic head-busting. Thankfully, a new teaser does in 15 seconds what that clip couldn’t accomplish in a minute: it suggests that our white-knight protagonist is in for a big change (namely, a crisis of faith in his role and mission) in Season 2. “It’s just a uniform,” says the cop, looking defeated as he removes his badge. “I don’t mean anything now.” It’s worth noting that Rick is alone in both the previews we’ve seen so far, as well as in a pair of new posters. Does this mean he’ll be separated from his wife and son — or worse? Watch the teaser after the jump and let us know what you think is in store.
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Not to advocate a slavish adherence to the source material, but if the second season takes some of its cues from the original comic series, there is definitely the potential for a Walter White-esque descent into tortured moral ambiguity for Rick Grimes. His character arc in the comix is pretty twisted.
[...] zombie-apocalypse thriller The Walking Dead, which starts its second season this Sunday night. From the looks of it, things will be much darker in the coming episodes, with the show’s heroic protagonist, Rick [...]
Or worse.
Though it should be noted that I occasionally have the hearing capacity of the elderly FutureMe, I am definitely hearing Rick say:
“It’s just a uniform. That don’t mean anything now.”
Which, at first, was just…different. But actually does kinda change the tone and/or implications slightly. Less about Rick’s [theoretical] existential crisis – more about the general post-ZA societal collapse we’ve really just started to explore.
I actually think both possibilities are equally intriguing. For very different reasons. So here’s hoping we get to see BOTH.
[...] had high hopes for Season 2 of The Walking Dead, after previews hinted that it would be darker and more character-driven than its predecessor. But although the new [...]
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