The Walking Dead Spin-Off "The Walking Dead: Cobalt" Revealed.
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So, if you haven't heard, a spin-off for the Walking Dead TV show was announced. It is to be set in Los Angeles at least in the pilot, in the earlier stages of the outbreak. Apparently, it's when the living outnumber the dead, so being in the earlier stretch of the outbreak would make sense. There is supposed to be 6 main survivors, two small families and a loner. There is a rumor that a character in the series who appeared briefly in a key season 1 episode.
Kirkman and Sons of Anarchy's Dave Erikson will be writing the series, and allegedly it will be included in AMC's fall lineup.
Note: The working title is 'Cobalt', not sure if that will be changed or not,
Thoughts? I for one and really interested.
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But the original Walking Dead is released in the fall. I thought this was going to be something that was released when the original was between seasons, not have them on at the same time. Either way, of course I'm interested, it is The Walking Dead after all.
Could be cool. Trying to think of which character they're referring.
Completely forgot about that guy.
Maybe it will be this guy.
This is stupid but who is that? I don't remember him.
I would think Dr. Edward Jenner might be the character.
This is Morales from the first season of the show. http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Morales
I doubt it will be Jenner, he was at the CDC when this all started with his wife.
Yeah, plus he's dead. It would be cool to see how Morales and his family made out. I always thought them leaving the group was a death sentence. But, you never know.
Does not care. I liked Jericho better as a TV SHOW. They always ruin everything i like though.
Don't see how Morales crossed most of the country getting from LA to Georgia but maybe in the earlier stages travel would be sligthly easier. Stoked to see a spinoff though!
Man, I loved Morales in season one. It would be awesome to see his family again
My friend and I have been talking about this.
I can't wait.
The best part is that if the show is bad they can always kill off the whole group. In fact maybe each season should be about a different group that would be pretty cool.
That would suck. But maybe if you left 2 or 1 survivior , that would awesome :P
Wait, so is this pretty much the same thing as the show?
Boring. Give us fast zombies, or smart zombies, or aliens, or vampire demon ghosts. This is seriously uncreative.
No, it isn't. The timeframe that this takes place in - earlier stages of the outbreak - has barely been explored in any of Kirkman's mediums.
And it's a spin-off show. They aren't going to add any of that.
The whole premise has been worn out to hell already. The only reason why I care about the video game was, well, it's a more interactive medium.
There's virtually nothing to distinguish this world from the hundreds of other zombie stories out there. This is just another milking of the cash cow.
I don't mind zombies, because it's a relatively basic horror medium that you can twist in a lot of unique ways, but The Walking Dead itself has become an immensely overexposed franchise.
I don't even watch the show or read the comics, to be completely honest.
I think zombies still have a lot of potential, but the same dull "sick people" premise has been worn out so thin that it's shameful. The existential horror of death being twisted into a grotesque parody of itself is now replaced by the power fantasy of being "empowered" and mowing down faceless hordes of slow-moving, idiotic, soulless things.
The concept needs a new shift, a new angle to focus on. Hell, even the guy who came up with the modern conception of zombies - George Romero - is trying, awkwardly, to posit zombies as gradually regaining their humanity. Kirkman is pointedly making an effort to avoid this angle, and it's his loss.
A really good take on zombies is the BBC show In The Flesh, if you've ever heard of it. It's one of the first zombie premises I've ever seen where it doesn't end in an apocalypse. They actually find a treatment for zombism--or, as they call it, "Partial Death Syndrome"--and it follows the trials and tribulations that "PDS sufferers" face when they're reintroduced into society as functional people.
It's very good. I highly recommend it.
Yeah, I've heard of it. :-) There ARE a couple of stories out there (Warm Bodies) which are working with that concept, and I'd say it's welcome...so long as the inherent horror in the zombies is still there. Dead bodies turning into cannibals should be gruesome and off-putting rather than sanitized.
Personally, I'd love to see the idea of voodoo zombies make a comeback - people who are enslaved to the whims of an evil person. The very idea of a zombie is unrealistic, so why not go the full hog and explicitly call it dark magic rather than put on a thin veneer of "scientific plausibility"?
But its not a new show, its a spin off. I agree the walking dead gets into a repetitive formula but thats what it is and people like it.
Also Z nation has more variety if you ever want to watch that, zombies start of fast and then get slower over time as they decay, meanining the writers can make them fast or slow to shake it up a biit. oh and there working on cures/ immunity etc
I'm aware of that. Just saying that I dislike the franchise as a whole, I guess. :P