The Walking Dead Season 3 has been kicking an incredible amount of ass. Its ratings are through the roof, I’ve certainly enjoyed doing the recaps, and SNL is even getting in on the action by lampooning them in their usual style.
Over at Bloody Disgusting, we’ve learned that Season Four is going to feature a bit less of Crazy Rick, and a bit more character stuff.
Greg Nicotero discusses the increase of character moments, “I think there may be a wee bit less of the run and gun. And [we’ll] get a little more into some of our characters. The challenge with a show like this, when you have a big ensemble, is you don’t want any of the characters to get lost; it’s important that we know what Carol’s story is and that we know what Beth’s story is. And when you’re trying to service a lot of characters, it becomes challenging. Watching the first season of Walking Dead and seeing how grounded it was, that’s really important to all of us. Andy Lincoln and I spent a lot of time going through the scripts and making sure we feel that they’re grounded. Because that’s what keeps our audience coming back. The walkers and the gore and the action and stuff, that’s fun, that’s the popcorn part of it. But if you don’t have characters that people are invested in, you lose your audience. We have the best fans in the world. If you go to the site, you see the message boards and can find out what they like and what they don’t like. We look at that, so we know sort of what fans want and what we don’t. They’ve given us a lot of interesting ideas. We’re ultimately going to do something that’s entirely unique and ours, but the fans are going to be very happy. We get a lot of requests for zombie animals.”
EP David Alpert added, jokingly, “I’m not going to rule out seeing a zombie polar bear in Season Four. Because you never know.”
Zombie polar bear? I’m in. Maybe in Season Five we’ll finally find out what the hell the deal is with Walt. Oh, wait, wrong show. Or maybe we’ll see the return of a fan favorite Walking Dead character.
Anybody got some peanut butter?
This is the Action Flick Chick, and you’ve just been kicked in the ass!
