“The Walking Dead” has been on break for over a month and many fans are ready to jump into the action. However, even though “The Walking Dead” looks to improve after its winter hiatus, the show has had a noticeable dip in quality and entertainment this season, which had turned off many fans.
The season premiere gave off the intention that the rest of the season will be filled with plenty of violence and gore. Instead, it appears the show will only become less violent as time goes on and it turns out it’s all it’s all the epic season premiere’s fault.
It turns out that the reduction of violence wasn’t all in our heads. After the Season 7 premiere aired, fans were not only devastated at the deaths of two favorite characters but how gory the episode was. A lot of viewers complained that the episode was too violent for their liking and as a result, the violence had to be cut back.
The executive producer on the show, Gale Anne Hurd, spoke with Variety about the negative response to Glenn and Abraham’s barbarous deaths forcing the show to make adjustments to the violence on the rest of the episodes of the season.
She said:
“We were able to look at the feedback on the level of violence,” Hurd said during a panel session at the NATPE conference. “We did tone it down for episodes we were still filming for later on in the season. This is not a show that is torture porn,” she said. After the response to the finale, she said they gave strong consideration to making sure “we don’t cross that line.”
Hurd makes it pretty clear in this statement that The Walking Dead won’t be exceeding the violence portrayed in this season’s premiere episode ever again. The series has had an array of violent moments, but Negan and Lucille swept the show with their merciless entrance. Obviously, “The Walking Dead” isn’t going to be stripped of all its violence, otherwise it wouldn’t be “The Walking Dead” at all. However, was this the right move by the producers?
Should “The Walking Dead” Cut Back On Its Violence?