Originally Posted by JDR13
In fairness, it's a show about corpses rising from the dead and eating people. I'm not sure how less extreme you were expecting it to be.

I didn't really have any expectations at all. I wasn't familiar with the source material. I'm just watching the show - and I was quite enthusiastic at first. It was always gory - but I found the first season much more interesting. Probably because I'm not actually a zombie fan and I didn't know what to expect.

Personally, I think you can get a MUCH more significant reaction from the audience by playing on psychology and using gore sparingly when appropriate. That way, it will have much more impact. The more gore they show, the less affected you get - until you just don't really react to it. Kinda like what seems to happen to the characters in the show - though I doubt that's what they're going for with the audience.

But that's just my take on it. I'm obviously not their intended audience - and I'm probably not going to watch it for much longer. I find the writing quite bad and the characters increasingly pointless and dull. I'm guessing they're staying loyal to the source material with the gore? Probably something the fans really want - and I wouldn't want to stand in the way of that.

Thankfully, I have shows like Dexter and Breaking Bad to keep me entertained

That said, I think there's a lot of potential in a zombie show with the emphasis on realism and psychological horror. I realise that's not the tradition, but I think it would be really interesting.