I never saw the first episode, at least not when it first aired. I remember hearing about this show. "The Walking Dead." "The Walking Dead." "The Walking Dead." All I knew was that it was about the Zombie Apocalypse, and even though my favorite movies are: "Night of the Living Dead('68 and '90)," "Return of the living Dead ('84), Shaun of the Dead ('04), Dawn of the Dead ('04), and Zombieland ('09), I hated the idea of a weekly zombie show. One thing you have to remember is zombies don't stop so I thought that the show would get very boring. In EVERY ONE of the zombie films mentioned, Zombies didn't stop...in Return of the Dead they burned the zombie bodies the disease went in the air, it rained on cemeteries and boom Zombies... How were they going to keep it up? I didn't know it was from a Comic Book. I tried to stay away from the show, but I came home from work one evening and it was on...my mom and my little brother watching it like zombies, "talking about its a really good show." I just went upstairs like, "Nope." Come home from work again they are watching. I watched a little and just went to my room. Then all of a sudden I was coming home from work and would sit down and watch. I think it was the Rick, Lori, Shane love triangle that got me. I opened my eyes realizing that this was not a Zombie apocalypse movie where the main goal was getting from point A to point B, all while fending off zombies. There were some serious story arcs. I have always enjoyed adventures that make me ask questions like, "what do girls do about periods? Do the characters get to take baths? Do they stink? If they have sex, then where? Randomness... questions that intrigue me with movies like "The Blue Lagoon," and the tv shows Lost and Gilligan's Island.
We get deeper into the show and we meet Hershel, Maggie, and fam who were devout Christians who had some false beliefs and ideas about the Zombies and God. And then that 20 something angst kicked in and Glaggie was created. Glenn and Maggie.
I was stuck...hooked...in it to win it.... I was at the beginning of my Asian awakening and any interracial relationships worked for me. As time progressed and the gang went through it...I needed them. They were what I could relate to, kids my age, in love taking down walkers and getting busy in the look out tower at the prison. Its gives me goosebumps. LOL!!! This show gave us so many gut-wrenching, up and downs, sometimes we were really up sometimes we were really down, and Glenn made it every time like a cat with nine lives.
Now I can't forget about Abraham and his awesome quotes and how he left a latina for a natural black girl... (Asians and Black women really win on this show even if we thought they killed all the black people in the beginning, well the black men...WAIT A MINUTE!!!!) I like him but I didn't connect with him. I feel like I was about to and then this... Season 7... we all knew someone would be leaving. We sat a the edge of our seats and nervously waited to see.... and unlike others, I really didn't know what they would do... it's a show that you can't calculate UNLESS you read the Comic. On a normal show, they would have killed Eugene and left it at that because you can't take your base. Saban learned about this when he tried to take Tommy's powers and took him off the show. Walking Dead fans often say "kill Daryl we riot." Well, kids sort of had a riot and parents complained hence "your new white ranger is Tommy" because you don't kill your base. The Walking Dead doesn't follow this rule or they did until know. Honestly, in previous deaths, I wasn't invested. I loved Hershel for being wise and it was sad for Maggie, but I wasn't phased, Noah's death I can never watch again, but I wasn't invested he wasn't a base character. We wanted Lori gone, T-Dog... meh....Merle (Good!!) Bob...meh, Tyreese he fought but meh.... I feel like we were ok with their deaths (even Beth's) because we knew that if it was going to be someone and usually there is a turning point for characters Abraham wasn't the base character, so I think fans could have taken that like...meh... he had just had a turning point with Sasha, but Glenn.... Glenn??? He is a base. Season 1-7. He is like when they switch out Kimberly for Katherine on Power Rangers.... that was when I walked away from Power Rangers (sort of not entirely). I love the Walking Dead, but I think I love Glenn more. I don't think he had that turning point, I feel like he leaves unfinished. Luckily, I am an adult and not a 10-year-old. So I won't be walking away from the show, but seeing a picture of what's to come including a new character with a tiger... like wtf? If this turns into Lost I might walk away and remember those times on the farm. I am not sure if I liked it when the team was on the farm, at the Jail or at Alexandria. Now wherever they go I will miss Glenn. I don't know what it is like to watch this show without him. Even when we thought he died by the Zombies at the trash can there was hope. We knew somehow he made it. But what is real crazy during all those moments that Glenn made it by the skin of his teeth, my eyes were watching the screen. Remember Valentine's Day during the 6th Season premier and the Zombies surrounded him and boom he was saved, I was literally crying, laughing and fainted all in a minute. This time...I turned my head...I didn't watch Abraham and I didn't watch Glenn's. I couldn't...I think it really would have been too much. Now I don't know how long they have to play Negan's silly little game...but I do know that..."it's about to go down." In the name of Glenn and the unborn (hopefully the baby will still be born and it better look a Lil Asian or I really will riot) Rick Grimes and family shall rise again!!!!
*Was Glenn the last of the Asians?? Like um, gotta be more than him out there."