3. Hey, We are All Friends
Uh, when did the Walking Dead characters start talking like people? Rick isn't giving speeches all the time. The melodrama is gone. Standard fare horror movies exist in a heightened reality, which The Walking Dead hovered above. But only kinda. Anytime Rick gave a speech or whenever Lori and Andrea ever spoke, their words oozed melodrama. In one of her first lines when she was first taken to Woodbury, Andrea said "Where are we?" She said it like a valley girl mixed with a duchess. Dramatically. http://youtu.be/GVUX2ivRmGY?t=12s Now we have Hershel busting Rick's chops about being a farmer. We have Carol calling Darryl pookie. We are learning things about our old characters that we didn't know. And that's amazing. One thing that has kept the Walking Dead out of the main Emmy categories has been its overacted lines and semi-overwritten dialogue. Do not get me wrong, I love the melodrama. Yet, I really like the new direction, because by focusing on real life things, it gives the characters more weight. It makes it possible to empathize and to become part of the zombie apocalypse with them. These first two episodes I have been engrossed. It's been the characters. Both old...