“The Walking Dead” is more than a simple television show, and it is more than one of the most influential comics in the history of the medium. It has become an surprisingly lasting multimedia franchise that helped redefine the zombie gender in the 2010s. HBO failed to transform “Walking Dead” into a television seriesBut this loss turned into an AMC gain for 11 seasons. Not to mention all the benefits. It is a cable television empire. So, creator Robert Kirkman has regrets? One particular episode stands out in this regard.

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Kirkman, who created the Image Comics series that inspired the television show, spoke with The Hollywood Reporter In 2014, at the height of the popularity of the show. Asked about the regrets he could have, Kirkman explained that, by having, he would not have concluded the first season of the show as he did with a visit to the CDC. For what? Here is what Kirkman had to say about this:

“If I had to do it again, I would not have done the episode of the CDC. It may have given too much information and I was a big change very early in the series. I paid attention to the series of comics not to say what is happening in other parts of the world. It is something that will be fun to explore in the SPIN series

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Season 1 of “The Walking Dead” is always considered one of the best in the seriesAnd this ends with a particularly revealing episode entitled “TS-19”. The episode sees Rick and the group authorized in the CDC by the strange Dr Edwin Jenner (Noah Emmerich). However, everything is not what it seems in what seemed to be a paradise for survivors. The group learns that, essentially, each human now carries the virus and once dead, they will be resuscitated. The CDC is self-destructive at the end of the episode, with a bit of a desperate atmosphere.

Although this episode answered big questions that fans had and helped create a plot for season 2, Kirkman feels that it has given too much. For what it is worth, he is very special in the way he treated the Zombie Apocalypse. For example, They never say “zombie” on “The Walking Dead,“What is an intentional choice. Maintaining a mystery and keeping things relatively anchored was important for Kirkman.

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The whole of France returned after the flagship show ended its race. Norman Reedus’ Daryl Dixon went to France in his well-title spin-off “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon”. Not to say that it would not have happened otherwise, but the trip to France might have maintained a greater degree of mystery if the CDC arc had never taken place, at least in the mind of Kirkman. However, the show appreciated a very healthy race and was, for a certain time, the biggest spectacle of the cable. It would be difficult to say that the episode injured the series significantly.

But how did this episode go first? In a 2010 interview with Weekly entertainmentKirkman explained that by discussing the episode with the writer / producer Frank Darabont, he was sold on the idea since it reminded him One of the biggest horror suites ever made: “Day of the dead” by George A. Romero.

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“When Frank put the idea for me, saying that he wanted to bring them to the CDC and tell me all the different things that, according to him, would come out of this story, the science of all this and trapping in the small location, I imagined a lot of the idea.”

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