By the time season three ofThe Walking Deadhad come around, it was pretty clear that we were witnessing the surge of a new phenomenon in the world of television. Everyone was talking about this show from the United States to the United Kingdom and beyond, and that trend kept going for a good few years prior to the viewership tailing off.
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Today, we want to take a look at the good and the bad that came withTWD's third season and why some believe it served as the peak of the hit zombie apocalypse drama.
As much as her loyal fans may want to swoon over her and make out that shes the best thing since sliced bread, the truth is that the character of Andrea didnt translate all too well from the comics through to the television show.
As aresult,she was killed off in a fairly dramatic way, but to save all of that, she probably shouldnt have even been given the chance to feature so heavily in what was such a massive storyline for the show regarding Woodbury and the prison.
Merle was theStone ColdSteve Austin of the Walking Dead universe, in the sense that he was the sort of anti-hero we couldnt help but love. While many wanted to see him survive beyond the third season it just wasnt meant to be, with his final act being a heroic one in saving Michonne.
After that, he decided to go down swinging, taking on The Governor and his men. From his murder to Daryl having to be the one to put him down, the whole thing was asheartbreakingas it wasbreathtakingto watch.
While Oscar wasnt given all too much screen time throughout the course of his brief tenure in the show, the idea that we had a mysterious prisoner who wasnt willing to beg for his life was fascinating to see.
He was able to prove to Rick and the gang that he was a valuable member of the gang, and just when it seemed as if he was going to be awarded more responsibility, he fell at the feet of Woodbury after being killed during the groups first major battle there.
Every good show needs a great bad guy and while Negan was still to come, The Governor still gave as good as he got.
He did a whole lot of things wrong in the show, but as a whole, his dictatorship over Woodbury was intriguing to watch. He was the leader that they needed at the time but once he was given a chance to show his truecolors, he proved to the world that he was one of the most dangerous men in the TWD universe.
His massacre in the final episode alone was enough to convince fans of that.
The death of Lori was a key turning point in the season for pretty much everyone, but that was especially true for Carl and Rick.
While Carl managed to move on from it all within a few episodes, Rick couldnt do so. As much as the death was needed to further the story, Ricks hallucinations ate up a lot of time and seemed to be used as a way to pad out segments in some of the episodes.
As a storytelling device, it didnt have the impact the writers probably hoped for.
After the first season came to an end, and even the first episode by itself, a lot of viewers had the same question in their mind: Wheres Morgan?
He had such a big role to play in the opening few sequences of the show and while it had been teased that he would return eventually, it was still shocking to see the state he was in when Rick finally stumbled across him.
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Morgan had quite clearly been driven mad by the death of his son, and nobody knew whether hed ever be the same again.
The build-up to the finale indicated that we were going to get a definitive resolution to the war between Woodbury and the prison.
In the end, they kicked the bucket a little bit further down the road and a whole lot of critics hit out atThe Walking Deadfor that. The somber end to the season may have been viewed as a necessity but beyond anything else, it didnt satisfy the needs of the many.
For such a strong season, the finale just lacked that extra spark. Thankfully, they made up for it with some of the scenes in the fourth season.
Its always great to see the two leaders of any opposing team, gang or rivals go head to head, and thats what we got when Rick and The Governor finally had the sit-down meeting that wed all been anticipating for so long.
The Governor wanted Rick to hand over Michonne, no questions asked. Even if that happened, there was a pretty decent chance that he wasnt going to allow them to live happily ever after, so instead, what we saw were the first signs of a war brewing between these two warriors.
All is fair in love and war as they say, but The Governor really did show what he was capable of when he threatened to sexually assault Maggie after shed been captured.
He forced her to take off her top and pushed her to the table, to the horror of most viewers.
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It may have been something they needed to do in the eyes of the writers and it certainly achieved the seemingly intended goal of making everyone feel very uncomfortable, but purely from a were invested in this story perspective, it was horrendous.
As a setting,TWDhit a home run with the prison.
It was the sort of gritty site that was required for a season that allowed the show to dip their toe into the pool of darkness just a little bit more. The rule book was essentially being thrown out of the window, and in its place, a battle for the ages was brewing.
Everything from the clearing out of the prison to them trying to start a new life there was gripping, and you just knew it was too good to be true.
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