Just very recent on one of my favorite television shows "the walking dead" season 6 episode 3 a character known as Glenn on the show died, oh so I thought. Before I share what I felt when watching the show and what happened on this episode I would like to share a little history about the show.
The Walking Dead
Above are some of the cast for the Walking Dead series season 6. This television show is an American horror drama series developed by Frank Darabont which aired on October 31 of 2010 on cable television channel AMC. Basically the show is about a post apocalyptic world that is overrun by zombies. The survivors have to adopt to the new world and learn to live with zombies and fight them when their lives are at stake so that they don't get bit and turn into one of them. I choose to talk about this show because it made a big impact on the American viewers when one of the characters played by Steven Yeun known as "Glenn" on the show died, so we all thought. When I saw Glenn fall back on a crowd of zombies and being torn and eaten, I almost cried and thought that the show was not worth watching anymore because of one character, many Americans had the same reaction to the episode.
Why do the fans have this reaction when someone they love on the show dies?
This happens because we get used to seeing this character on the show especially if they are good or if the show seems to be so much better with them in it. Bellow are some things that fans said about the death of a loved character:
Glenn can’t die! (Denial)
How could they kill off Glenn? Damn writers! (Anger)
Maybe he crawled under the dumpster. (Bargaining)
I can’t watch this show anymore. (Depression)
Poor Maggie. (Acceptance)
The image above shows a scene from the actual episode where Glenn falls back into the crowd of walker (zombies) and is ripped to pieces, but what they did not show (spoiler alert for those who watch the series and did not watch the episode) is that Glenn was not the one that was being ripped apart but one of the other survivor.
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2015/10/26/sorry-walking-dead-fans-but-that-death-was-real/
This happens because we get used to seeing this character on the show especially if they are good or if the show seems to be so much better with them in it. Bellow are some things that fans said about the death of a loved character:
Glenn can’t die! (Denial)How could they kill off Glenn? Damn writers! (Anger)
Maybe he crawled under the dumpster. (Bargaining)
I can’t watch this show anymore. (Depression)
Poor Maggie. (Acceptance)
The image above shows a scene from the actual episode where Glenn falls back into the crowd of walker (zombies) and is ripped to pieces, but what they did not show (spoiler alert for those who watch the series and did not watch the episode) is that Glenn was not the one that was being ripped apart but one of the other survivor.
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2015/10/26/sorry-walking-dead-fans-but-that-death-was-real/
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