The Walking Dead is the franchise that just will never ever die despite the main series having ended a few short years ago. Every so often the franchise comes back either with a new video game or in this case a new spin off as the latest attempt to cash in and build upon the world of The Walking Dead has finally premiered and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED first impressions of the show that started life as a series of Walking Dead Rick Grimes movies with the show in question being called simply just "The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live" enjoy.
The plot of the episode is nine years after rescued by an army helicopter Rick Grimes tries to escape from the organisation that saved enslaved him and others like him in order to reunite with his family. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad but at the same time tho this episodes plot wasn't all that good either as it doesn't give you a good idea of what the plot of the show will be about with this episodes plot not really being helped by the fact that best way to describe this episodes plot is really thin at best as that's exactly what it is with it being so thin infact that it's hard too tell what the plot of the episode even is with this episodes plot not really being all that entertaining and not really being all that engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is the shows co-creator and executive producer Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes and the shows co-creator and executive producer Danai Gurira as Michonne Grimes. Also starring in this episodes is Lost star Terry O'Quinn as Beale , Craig Tate as Donald Okafor , Lesley-Ann Brandt as Pearl Thorne , Frankie Quinones as Esteban Garcia , Alexis Rae Forlenza as Little Girl , Karma Jenkins as Hannah and Les Trent as Anchor.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With both Andrew and Danai turning in some really solid performances in this episode which really isn't all that new as they both a pair of really talented actors who both know how to turn in a good performance and given that both of them have been playing there respective characters for years at this point they would of course would know what kind of performance to give there respective characters in any given scene but what really does let the overall quality of the acting down is the episodes script which is just so bad as it gives none of the episodes much to work interms of what it is that there respective characters personality is even meant to be in the first place and that is something that really does hurt the overall quality of the acting.
For once it's actually hard to tell who did this episodes CGI as there's no effects company listed anywhere on IMDB. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about rhe actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad but at the same time tho this episodes CGI wasn't all that good either as it looked incredibly dated and incredibly cheap looking as well with it being painfully obvious when there using a CGI effect which is inline with the rest of the The Walking Dead but it's still a huge issue as CGI should be hard to pick out and yet when it's being made painfully obvious that what your looking as CGI effect that it's a bad sign for the rest of not only this episodes CGI but the series CGI as well as a hole.
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Even tho the whole point of this show is to show Rick and Michonne trying to meet each other again after almost ten years apart. This episode has them meet up at the end of the first episode as such there's no reason to watch the rest of the show as the whole reason for the show existing is resolved by the end of the first episodes while the whole point of this show is tell a love story set in the world of The Walking Dead the makers of this show failed to realise that you could still do that without having both of the lovers in question meeting up again as the two have spent years together thanks to being on The Walking Dead as such having them meet up at the end of this episode makes no sense as well as robbing us the audience of a reason to watch the rest of the show as the show now gives us no reason to watch the rest of the show.
For those of you who don't know this show was originally meant to be a series of three movies all of which were going to be released theatrically. This show in all honesty would have worked best as a trilogy of movies as it would have allowed for more character development that you just wouldn't be able to get in a six episode series and heck with a trilogy of movies the whole world of The Walking Dead could be opened up to include things that couldn't be included in the show due to whatever reasons and yet by making it into a TV show the franchise remains where it's most comfortable telling the same kinds of stories from the same writer all of which do more harm not only to this episode but to the show as a whole as the show is only six episodes long and yet just based of off this one episode there's no hint of what the plot of the show could have been where as Rick trying to meet up with Michonne again could have been the plot of the show if it wasn't ruined by having them meet up again at the end of the first episode.
The new characters in this show do have some potential to be fun characters but none of them are really given a chance to shine. Which is understandable as this is only the first episode but when your show is six episodes long you have to give them a chance to shine pretty much in episode one and while these new characters do seem like there likable with one of them even willing to try and help Rick escape at one point it ends up being for nothing as were not being given a reason to care for the new characters which again is something that does make sense as this is only episode one of the show again due to the episodes shorter episode order this is something that is going to hurt the show in the long run as now we the audience have no reason to care for these characters and no reason to want to see any more of there new characters which is made even more worse when the far more interesting returning characters are on screen.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and fifty eight seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for this show but as this episode has not alot of plot to cover that large amount of running time as alot of the time were just seeing Rick going about his day to day life and there's only so long that you can see that before it starts to get boring which in this episode happens quite quickly and yet the whole general idea of the show could have been more interesting then what it ended up being as this episode really isn't the strongest episode to start this new show of on and when you start something on faulty foundations it doesn't matter how good the rest of the show because the start of the show was built of on faulty foundations with none of this being helped by the fact that this episode has some pretty bad pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is a zombie show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really cool. With alot of the zombie kills in this episode being the most entertaining part of the episode as we get to see alot of the more gruesome kills that we all know that this show can give us and yet even with the all of the shows kills none of those mean anything as the plot of the show episode just isn't that good with the awesome kills in this first episode pretty much being there just to remind us that yes this is a zombie show and really nothing all the more then that in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
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Overall this is fairly bad first episode and as such it's hard to see this show catching on much like the first episode of either Fear The Walking Dead and The Walking Dead did as this episode just isn't that good or even all that interesting for that matter in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as we as all of the bad things in this very post and since this is only my first impressions I won't be giving this show a rating however if i'm still watching this show when this shows final episode airs or even is released online and then i'll give this a show review and a rating as well.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post from the official The Walking Dead fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because the official The Walking Dead fandom wiki page actually has images from this episode up on the official The Walking Dead fandom wiki page and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on the official The Walking Dead fandom wiki page were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.
