In season one, the Walkers were far more humanized and intelligent than in the rest of the seasons. The Bunny Slipper girl picking up the stuffed animal, the Walker at the mall using a rock to break the glass door, the purple shirt walker just staring at Rick, deciding to not join the frenzied hoard. I really loved that aspect of them and it's a shame that it didn't continue.
I always thought it was creepy how the walker just stares at Rick getting into the tank instead of joining the rest of the walkers feasting on the horses corpse.
@@poopfingernail2247That walker was probably Herschel's neighbour, I remember in the comics the majority of the walkers, in the barn where their zombified neighbours that they found, while searching for supplies in the nearby houses out of the farm. I still remember the first walker in farmer clothes, that was going after T-dog when he was bleeding, and Daryl killed that walker with his knife.
Always wondered about that walker. He was sitting on the bus, then gets up and walks around a bit. Then we see him at the tank staring at Rick. He was so ominous and creepy. Like to know more about the walkers backstory. Looks like an office worker that didnt make it out of the city and either got bit or the napalm got him. Such an amazing season, short but amazing. Thanks James
He's just a random Walker, who they emphasized bit more because he's played by one of the production crew members. Jesus people, stop overblowing it. He's just some random walker. It's simple cameo\easter egg thing.
They completely fucked this show when they fired Frank Darabont. He had so many awesome and intriguing ideas/plans for future episodes and they didn't even let him direct more than one season. Damn shame.
@@djctheekc9911 He wanted to give stories of individual walkers, like the season 1 walker in the tank was supposed to show his backstory and how Atlanta was eventually overrrun by the zombies. He had a lot of good ideas, but amc fired him because he knew how to end a show instead of milking it.
I think that walker was some sort of special variant, just like Morgan's wife they both acted like they were still partially human. I feel like some walkers early on still retained some of their human self, so maybe that's why this one was just watching Rick.
I don’t think there were special variants, I think they just held onto a very small amount of their humanity/knowledge. For example, remember there was a zombie in Atlanta that was smart enough to grab a rock to try and break the glass and get into the building the group was trapped in
I think it was actually because the writers and crew weren’t sure how far to take the walkers and their abilities. I remember in the first season, they could almost kinda run, climb fences, and like you said, pick up things. All of that changed though by season two. I guess they thought getting lethal bite by the walkers was plenty to make them scary and they didn’t need to do much else lol
Got on the bus from familiar memories when he was a living person who use to catch the bus. Like the little girl who picked up the doll or Morgan's wife who came to the front door and tried to turn the door knob.
Not to mention the zombie that uses a rock to smash the window of the store that Rick and Andrea are in when she takes the pendant for her sister. They clearly (at least in season 1) have some sort of residual memory of things from when they were alive.
@@Enigmatic.. My general theory is that the "fresher" the walker the more residual memory of who they used to be there is. As they decay it just gives way to the basic hunger instinct so the corpse ambles after what made the noise or caught it's nose.
Yeah the walkers could run and climb fences too. Im pretty sure if they kept them that way everyone in the series would've died by the end of the 3rd season lol. They were just too human like
Because they still look like humans, not the cosplay zombies of later seasons. The make up artist there, just sucks. If it is greg nicotero, then he is losing his touch.
Season 1 walkers were super creepy; running, using bricks to break through windows, using doorknobs... but if they were kept like that, the surviving humans wouldn't stand a chance. Maybe that's why they slowed down, and dumbed-down.
@@cyanide_lollipop3264 I personally don't like running and smart zombies. We already got a lot of film with them, the way that TWD portray them since season 2 is unique and is a distinctive difference. I love Frank ideas about the stories that he was going to tell to us, especially the fall of Atlanta and the story of the tank soldier.
I could’ve sworn when The Walking Dead started they said they’d pick a fan to become a walker every so often and that when the camera inexplicably focuses on a random walker, that’s the fan walker. So that has always been my explanation
That zombie always freaked me the f out...Same with Morgan’s wife...There’s something so much more unnerving about a Walker with a slight intelligence rather than a straight up Walker
yeah, Frank was great, he was going to do so much amazing stuff, i heard that he planned to do a backstory to that soldier from the tank that Rick kills in the pilot as well....A lot of things would`ve been revealed and showed but...it is what it is....
No doubt season 1 is my favorite also. The look and feel of it is truly like watching a movie. As for the purple walker goes, he doesn't say a word and we all know him when we see him. I would say he did an awesome job, just based on that alone.
@@chedrick78 Can’t really blame us am l right? l mean seriously look at him he literally looks like a walker version of Jim Carrey until this day and not even like the actual actor that plays him that’s what I at least see and think for every time I look at him lmao it’s insane
...one of the future TWD series should be called "The Walking Dead - Origins"...and just be a series about the most iconic zombies and their brief lives before the apocalypse...like what they did with "Bike Girl"...
if u search up walking dead webisodes the first 3-4 parts are the backstory of her. then the last story of the webisodes explains who kept rick alive and who put the the dont open dead inside sign in the hospital. very interesting.
He used "Bike Girl" as an example, not an idea of what to do in the future, ffs. Other cool zombie origin stories: - the bunny slipper girl - the well zombie - the mossy tree zombie - and the best... Sophia. How she died and how Otis found her to stick in the barn.
@@thomasredding1660 sadly the sofia route would be impossible, s2 was filmed around a decade ago unless they have an actor who looks really similar to Madison Lintz
@@ma-bn2fj Nothing is impossible, x. There is no try.... Which immediately calls to mind a YOUNG Luke Skywalker in black annihilating the defenders on board Moff Gideon's light cruiser... So finding a set of greedy parents that want their 10 y/o daughter to be a star as "Sophia" should be easy.
the walkers of season 1 are truly the most memorable and more horrifying then any of the seasons, and I think its because they were the most humanistic. When I look at them from S1, I see zombies that still resembled the people they once were, which made it all the more horrific for some reason. When I look at all of the decayed and rotten fleshed zombies of the later seasons, they not only do not resemble people anymore, but because of this they dont even seem to be realistic. S1 definitely captured the mystery and the horror the greatest, while later season zombies just seem to be rotten flesh sacks.
It doesn't help that the zombies are at three stooges level competency 99% of the time, but any time a character has to die or get bitten they become Winston Churchill mixed with Sam Fisher in terms of strategy and stealth.
I thought it would be cool for this guy to turn up periodically before every major event that happened within the show. I always thought that would've been so cool and mysterious. They could've used this guy as a sign or something to stimulate the dramatic irony within the show.
And maybe in the last season have him transform in height by 100ft and have him walk down the streets of new york like king kong with normal sized walkers by his side. Being sarcastic obviously.
Season 1 zombies could still imitate actions that their living counterpart did before. Just like Morgan’s wife turning the doorknob. The guy probably rode the bus a lot when he was alive.
or how the little girl Walker shuffled slowly bent down and picked up the teddy and starting walking again completely ignoring the "smell" of fresh meet (meaning Rick) she only noticed him when he called out to her she stopped turned around and just stared at him for a bit then launched at him
The walkers in season 1 were so much scarier I don't know what it is I guess they are more human like how they could pick up rocks and run. But maybe they had a different idea back then.
Well in that time the walkers just came back to life from being dead so everything in the body was still working fine meaning some intelligence was left and the physical body was fine.
Thanks for the "walk" down memory lane! I live in Georgia and remember when all this went on. They filmed in many areas where I live and yes.....I am a "Walker Stalker" and have MANY autographs from cast members / walkers alike.. I had the great opportunity to chit chat with Mr. Joe Giles around SE2 - SE3 and he was very approachable and kind to his fans. I did happen to see another personal friend in 1 of the clips here. Her name is Michelle Flanagan-Helmeczy and she was also a "face" in SE2 EP3 "Save the last one". Truly I was amazed at how a TV show could bring so many people (cast, crew and fans) together and the bonds that we made.
This was clearly one of the smart walkers. There were 3 in season 1 if I remember correctly: this dude, the one that breaks the glass in the store and the police walker that climbs the fence in the creepiest way possible
I liked how the walkers were portrayed as animalistic with some sense of their past humanity left back in S1 and a little bit of S2. That’s why Morgan’s undead wife and this guy were both so unsettling, because you know they’re dead, these thing’s technically shouldn’t be up and walking and biting any living thing, yet they are, and what makes it worse, they’ve retained some past memories of their old lives when they were still human. S3-6 were still great to watch, but S1 and 2 really hooked the audience in with how some walkers acted, like the rando with the brick that it used to bash down the mall doors.
I actually love season 1 because the walkers seemed like they had some kind of knowledge or sense. I like to think that in the early days, when you died you came back with some knowledge of your life but still have the urge for flesh. As the walkers rotted I felt it made sense they would get slower or dumber, more animalistic. Sadly, fresh walkers down the line didn't seem to have the same sense, but I always thought it was cool. However, that was Frank Darabont wanting to make George Romero zombies, not Robert Kirkmans... for that I feel like is a key factor in replacing him.
Here are a couple of Frank Darabont related videos I have done: Franks Dark Side th-cam.com/video/c1nZ0yFQLBs/w-d-xo.html Season 1: In the Beginning th-cam.com/video/YRpMNlMm-NI/w-d-xo.html
He was so memorable to me because i just referred to him as the kevin bacon zombie , also because i found it odd that some shots would focus on him for a bit
They missed some potential with this zombie. I just realized that this walker could've been like the homeless woman from Sons of Anarchy, where he shows up periodically. They should have him show up when big events happen. For example, when the prison was overrun, the purple shirt guy should be walking into the prison with the other walkers.
Whatever happened to the graghic comic cartoon that was on the website ' when the Walking Dead , first started a Decade ago ? It started with Rick waking up in the Hospital , he wanders a bit till he walked and opened the ; Don't Open Dead Inside doors , then he makes it to the Parking garage on towards his home before Morgan's son Duane smacked Tha Sh*t outta of him , whatever happened to that concept , I was hooked on that for quite som time !
My speculation on his in-universe backstory He was an office worker in Atlanta that was still going to his job in the first days of the apocalypse, when society was still trying to function even with the mounting number of walkers. You can see that his tie is loosened and the top button on his shirt is undone, so he might’ve just gotten off work when a walker attacked him (you can see a bite wound on his neck.) That’s all that I can firmly assume. I initially thought he might’ve died on the bus we see him on in the show, but considering that Operation Cobalt napalmed a bunch of cities but he doesn’t have much of any burn marks on him, maybe he was inside a building when it happened. Then, as a fresh walker, he emerged outside with muscle memory still somewhat intact, saw the bus, and since he likely used it a lot in his living life, he might’ve sat on the bus for memory’s sake. Not sure why he didn’t join the feast on the horse though.
I know the guy who played this walker, he was also the movement coordinator for the walkers and the makeup artist. Joe Giles. He says the original plan was for this zombie was to be special and follow Rick for a while. They where gonna give him a back story and all. Then someone got fired and that plan got thrown out.
The back story is that Jim Carey was is Atlanta for the shooting of Grinch 2: The Grinch Strikes Hotlanta, when he got bit by a zombie that was meant to play a Who. Then he turned into a zombie after a day and a half. Relevant back story complete.
I wish I could go back to the days of being in high school and WAITING the entire week for Sunday for the next episode of TWD. It’s crazy that it started in 09 I am class of 2011 and I used to anticipate this show so bad. Seasons 1-4 will forever be some of the best TV ever!
Frank was fired shortly after Season 1. Ultimately gaining a large sum via a multi million dollar lawsuit. The reason the walkers are so vastly different from those we've seen since Season 2 to present is due to Frank depicting the walkers as semi "intelligent" (i.e. the little zombie girl bending over and picking up the doll/teddy bear lying in the street, purple shirt guy gazing at Rick intently despite the various stimuli & commotion encircling him, Morgan's reanimated wife walking up the steps to the house she died in to appear as though she were looking in the peep hole and also turning the door handle to get in). Once Frank was replaced, this walker trope was trashed and they became the unintelligent, horde/group mentality, single-linear "thinkers" that most movies and/or shows depict them to be.
It’s a variant strain in the US that evolved cognitively while the Europe ones are more violent. Curious for the South American, Asian AND other areas.
Based on his outfit i would actually guess the purple shirt guy was formerly some attorney that recognized rick, maybe he was remembering briefly that rick was a cop, not aggressively approaching him, maybe already had in his previous life.
The Walkers in Season 1 were definitely different than the rest of the Seasons. The Walkers now IMO don't even appear threatening and it has nothing to do with the amount of time they have been dead.
The series shifted from Walkers being the main threat to other survivors. The first two seasons it was just a learning curve of staying alive. Later, the show had to assume that most anybody else still alive had to have similar survival skills to the main group so the drama and tension became mostly about that.
@@TheLAGopher probably because irl viruses adapt and also over time it would rot their brains and bodies so even if someone just recently died in later seasons, they still wouldn't be able to run or anything because the virus wouldve still been adapted
I like how the shirt walker zombie seemed to have personal traits left and stalk Rick as if he has a personal agenda against him. Morgans wife is also an example which looks unusual and also comical like the mentioned shirt walker. Makes sense. In season one they had less experience to make them look/behave like in current episodes. edit: S1 walkers where also way faster, could power walk and climb fences.
Saddest death in the walking dead is that horse. Rick told the house that he would make some new friends in the city maybe and then abandoned him the second walkers showed up and didn’t even bother shooting the horse to prevent him from suffering.
@@TWDExplainedI feel like the horse got it's revenge in rick's hallucination, (when Rick found Shane) where It transformed into a white horse and the walkers, weren't doing nothing to the horse and the walkers were just following it, because It was carrying rick.
@@TWDExplained and id like to think the horse was invisible to the walkers, in that hallucination so when Rick found Shane and left the horse there, the animal probably kicked some walkers with it's rear legs, and bashed the heads with it's hoove's horshoes as a revenge for getting eaten, 10 seasons before.
The writers and the producers had a dispute about budget and so the season 1 writers were kicked out and replaced. Originally they wanted to have different variants of walker with different abilitys and varios levels of intelegence. The new writters dropped that concept and just towards the end of the main series came back to it. I personally beliefe that the purple guy was supposed to be on of the "Smart" variants since he stood out from the others, however he was never mentioned again since the concept of "smart walkers" was dropped.
There's one in S4 E8 that looks very similar. It may be the same one. Right after the Governor is killed, the camera zooms in on the walker for like 2-3 seconds.
The walker could've been on the bus as a human and died of suffocation. Napalm draws the air out area around. So when being napalmed you don't just have to die of the fire, you can die of lack of oxygen too.
It’s interesting how as the seasons went on the walkers degraded not just physically but mentally as well. Here in season 1 they still had a semblance of intelligence but in the late seasons this seems almost entirely absent.
As far as the show's lore goes - that is not exactly correct - here is a recent video that helps explain it. The variant walkers (smarter ones) are regional. th-cam.com/video/toO4y2slAzw/w-d-xo.html
haha yep - but when shown to someone - very recognizable teddy bear girl video: th-cam.com/video/uqbs_kRKR68/w-d-xo.html Rick Shoots Little Girl Video: th-cam.com/video/GIt9QwR8Fhw/w-d-xo.html
I loved how there were clues and Easter eggs that shows there is more going on that reminds you that just because we are following specific characters, that they aren't the only characters.
Simple... He's the Ultimate Walker. He doesn't need to eat He still has human intelligence He doesn't Rot He cannot Die He also regenerate He still has his memories intact
Thank God somebody said something about that Walker. I've always referred to that Walker as "The Curious Walker". It would have been nice to have a backstory on him, it would have been pretty interesting if there was.
I always thought this walker was “ The Lone Walker “ that Rick sees randomly roaming through the wheat fields multiple times later own in seasons 1 to 5.
So he's basically like the nameless female zombie from Resident Evil. In that almost lots of fans know who he is. However unlike the nameless female zombie who apparently appears in lots of media, this one appears once.
" _These creatures are nothing but pure... motorized... instinct. We must not be lulled by the concept that these are our family members or our friends- they WILL not respond to such emotion. They must be destroyed ON SIGHT_ "
I've always my head canon that the more they decompose the more wild and animal like they become. Like Morgan's wife for example, she was clearly dead but almost untouched by extreme decay, and seemingly trying to "go home".
When I watched this scene for the first time, I thought that maybe he was a human who tricked the walkers by pretending to be a walker himself so he wouldn’t get killed.
In season one, the Walkers were far more humanized and intelligent than in the rest of the seasons. The Bunny Slipper girl picking up the stuffed animal, the Walker at the mall using a rock to break the glass door, the purple shirt walker just staring at Rick, deciding to not join the frenzied hoard. I really loved that aspect of them and it's a shame that it didn't continue.
Check out a video I did on Summer, the 1st zombie (in the show) :th-cam.com/video/uqbs_kRKR68/w-d-xo.html
And when the walkers climbed the fence in Atlanta
@@jamesrathof3910 Yep! I forgot about that. Man, that was such good TV in those days! I would love to see where Darabont would have taken the show!
@@eerslink5498 ikr! It would have been so good
Also Morgan’s wife turning the door handle
I believe early zombies had some type of memories left
Look at Morgan’s wife trying to go home
Yes! She was turning the doorknob trying to get in.
That wasnt morgans home. Maybe she died there?
@@atyeba2512 she did, Morgan even points at the bed she died on, they were camped in the house for a while
Well that old guy at Woodbury didn't have a memory but maybe others do
They did. The creators said so. Good point.
I always thought it was creepy how the walker just stares at Rick getting into the tank instead of joining the rest of the walkers feasting on the horses corpse.
I always thought that walker Looked like Kevin Bacon
Now that you mention it...that was Hella strange.
Morgan's wife zombie looking through the door hole was super creepy as well 😱😱😱
@@BadLuckLuke or the walker throwing a stone trough a fckng window like holy shit hahahah
I was thinking that too when I was rewatching
I’m glad I’m not the only person who’s thought “what’s with that guy?”
Same
Indeed
same with the first walker to come out of the barn in season 2 i will remember that face like forever
I honestly thought it was Glenn. That was before, you know, we actually meet Glenn
@@poopfingernail2247That walker was probably Herschel's neighbour, I remember in the comics the majority of the walkers, in the barn where their zombified neighbours that they found, while searching for supplies in the nearby houses out of the farm.
I still remember the first walker in farmer clothes, that was going after T-dog when he was bleeding, and Daryl killed that walker with his knife.
They shoulda brought that guy back as the original whisperer
That would have been awesome
Whisperers form much later in the story , after the saviours are defeated
Makes no sense.
Nick from FTWD walked with the dead before it was cool
@@podlodialgilap3490 no, actually there's an episode that shows alpha backstory and they are whisperes years before that
Always wondered about that walker. He was sitting on the bus, then gets up and walks around a bit. Then we see him at the tank staring at Rick. He was so ominous and creepy. Like to know more about the walkers backstory. Looks like an office worker that didnt make it out of the city and either got bit or the napalm got him. Such an amazing season, short but amazing. Thanks James
There is a huge but mark on his neck so I’m gonna go with the fist option
His brain might be unique and different from the majority population and the virus affects it different.
@@yodasnot-so-wellcousin445 Not to mention the fact that he wouldn’t be up and walking around after being hit by napalm.
@@airmobiledivision7759 yea
He's just a random Walker, who they emphasized bit more because he's played by one of the production crew members. Jesus people, stop overblowing it. He's just some random walker. It's simple cameo\easter egg thing.
This Walker was even in the comics. When Glenn saves Rick and they are on the fire escape, you can see him in a group of walkers.
I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY PERSON IN THE WORLD WHO NOTICED
Wait what? I gotta re read that then!
That's right!
what was the story behind it
Your right I saw him too, most of the tv show walkers look exactly like the ones in the comic series, and my mom thought he looked asian
They completely fucked this show when they fired Frank Darabont. He had so many awesome and intriguing ideas/plans for future episodes and they didn't even let him direct more than one season. Damn shame.
I AGREE! With Darabont this could've been the best show ever, Game Of Thrones has nothing on TWD season 1 lol!
What were his plans?
@@djctheekc9911 He wanted to give stories of individual walkers, like the season 1 walker in the tank was supposed to show his backstory and how Atlanta was eventually overrrun by the zombies. He had a lot of good ideas, but amc fired him because he knew how to end a show instead of milking it.
@@assassin_rk42 I bet he would’ve shown us the terminus backstory too I would’ve loved that
@@djctheekc9911 Me too!
I think that walker was some sort of special variant, just like Morgan's wife they both acted like they were still partially human. I feel like some walkers early on still retained some of their human self, so maybe that's why this one was just watching Rick.
I don’t think there were special variants, I think they just held onto a very small amount of their humanity/knowledge. For example, remember there was a zombie in Atlanta that was smart enough to grab a rock to try and break the glass and get into the building the group was trapped in
I think it was actually because the writers and crew weren’t sure how far to take the walkers and their abilities. I remember in the first season, they could almost kinda run, climb fences, and like you said, pick up things. All of that changed though by season two. I guess they thought getting lethal bite by the walkers was plenty to make them scary and they didn’t need to do much else lol
@@jessjessjess222 the way I like to look at it is the longer they're a walker for the more of that they lose because their body is degrading over time
@@jessjessjess222 either that or they just decomposed and stuff over time and got slower. they were still kinda fast after season 1 compared to now
@@diamondrush4446 I thought that too but newly turned walkers now don’t even act that way. I think it’s just a change of direction with the writing.
Got on the bus from familiar memories when he was a living person who use to catch the bus. Like the little girl who picked up the doll or Morgan's wife who came to the front door and tried to turn the door knob.
Like the theory
I literally just typed that
Not to mention the zombie that uses a rock to smash the window of the store that Rick and Andrea are in when she takes the pendant for her sister. They clearly (at least in season 1) have some sort of residual memory of things from when they were alive.
I am a Hero manga vibe
@@Enigmatic.. My general theory is that the "fresher" the walker the more residual memory of who they used to be there is. As they decay it just gives way to the basic hunger instinct so the corpse ambles after what made the noise or caught it's nose.
Tbh I think this was the most interesting walker of the first season
Just an office employee taking the bus to work or some crap
I sayy he is the og whisperer
He is called Jim Carrey..
@@metalcrusader6666 exactly that's all just Jim Carrey walker
I think Sophia was
Season 1 walker are the best creepy and smart
Yeah if they kept that and made it where the virus never adapted and rotted their brain and bodies
Specially that Kid that got shot in S1 that takes her Teddy bear then is S8 The Walker Little Girl is still alive
Yeah the walkers could run and climb fences too. Im pretty sure if they kept them that way everyone in the series would've died by the end of the 3rd season lol. They were just too human like
Because they still look like humans, not the cosplay zombies of later seasons. The make up artist there, just sucks. If it is greg nicotero, then he is losing his touch.
Frank was so genius...
Lot of things from season 1 are still so mysterious
They should have kept Frank on. After he was fired, for me personally the creep factor died down.
@@drewwhiting the creepy factor was still there in later seasons but yeah definitely after season 2 it wasn’t as creepy anymore
Season 1 walkers were super creepy; running, using bricks to break through windows, using doorknobs... but if they were kept like that, the surviving humans wouldn't stand a chance. Maybe that's why they slowed down, and dumbed-down.
@@cyanide_lollipop3264 I personally don't like running and smart zombies.
We already got a lot of film with them, the way that TWD portray them since season 2 is unique and is a distinctive difference.
I love Frank ideas about the stories that he was going to tell to us, especially the fall of Atlanta and the story of the tank soldier.
@@matteoclementi the zombies after season 3 were not scary at all.
Finaly we talk about this guy
He look like jim carrey
Lol he do be looking like Jim over their.
Looks like Eugene
@@alwayseerika7334 i thought it was Eugene when i saw him first
I could’ve sworn when The Walking Dead started they said they’d pick a fan to become a walker every so often and that when the camera inexplicably focuses on a random walker, that’s the fan walker. So that has always been my explanation
Nice explanation
I think that's the Telltale's game of TWD, they chose 5 fans and put them into the game and later became walkers
@@robboss3000 They we're only there for the Finale as well.
@@halfknight6706 The winner wasn't, the winner was Brie from episode 4
That zombie always freaked me the f out...Same with Morgan’s wife...There’s something so much more unnerving about a Walker with a slight intelligence rather than a straight up Walker
I agree so much
They could have been the first variants? Unless the variants were just the virus slowly evolving but I guess we’ll never know.
Man the show would of been very different if they stuck with Frank Darabont..... I love Angela Kangs work, Just think they did him dirty.
yeah, Frank was great, he was going to do so much amazing stuff, i heard that he planned to do a backstory to that soldier from the tank that Rick kills in the pilot as well....A lot of things would`ve been revealed and showed but...it is what it is....
@@Mihael_Keehl31 Yeah I heard would of been great storyline the Tank Walker 😔
Them Walker's were fast though lol
Agreed
@MAGA 2020 Scott might have messed up on a lot of stuff but the new seasons are on Angela
Angela kang ruined the walking dead IMO
No doubt season 1 is my favorite also. The look and feel of it is truly like watching a movie.
As for the purple walker goes, he doesn't say a word and we all know him when we see him.
I would say he did an awesome job, just based on that alone.
I thought he was Jim Carrey at the beginning of the series when I discovered twd then it was later on confirmed that it wasn’t him after all, damn it
i thought i was the only one
so glad to hear i’m not alone i literally thought it was jim carrey
@@chedrick78 Can’t really blame us am l right? l mean seriously look at him he literally looks like a walker version of Jim Carrey until this day and not even like the actual actor that plays him that’s what I at least see and think for every time I look at him lmao it’s insane
I always thought it looked like Kevin Bacon, but yeah, it definitely looks more so like Jim Carrey
wow you pulled this out my mouth, i thought the same
...one of the future TWD series should be called "The Walking Dead - Origins"...and just be a series about the most iconic zombies and their brief lives before the apocalypse...like what they did with "Bike Girl"...
if u search up walking dead webisodes the first 3-4 parts are the backstory of her. then the last story of the webisodes explains who kept rick alive and who put the the dont open dead inside sign in the hospital. very interesting.
They have that show now loll, it has a few episodes out already.
He used "Bike Girl" as an example, not an idea of what to do in the future, ffs.
Other cool zombie origin stories:
- the bunny slipper girl
- the well zombie
- the mossy tree zombie
- and the best... Sophia. How she died and how Otis found her to stick in the barn.
@@thomasredding1660 sadly the sofia route would be impossible, s2 was filmed around a decade ago unless they have an actor who looks really similar to Madison Lintz
@@ma-bn2fj
Nothing is impossible, x.
There is no try....
Which immediately calls to mind a YOUNG Luke Skywalker in black annihilating the defenders on board Moff Gideon's light cruiser...
So finding a set of greedy parents that want their 10 y/o daughter to be a star as "Sophia" should be easy.
the walkers of season 1 are truly the most memorable and more horrifying then any of the seasons, and I think its because they were the most humanistic. When I look at them from S1, I see zombies that still resembled the people they once were, which made it all the more horrific for some reason. When I look at all of the decayed and rotten fleshed zombies of the later seasons, they not only do not resemble people anymore, but because of this they dont even seem to be realistic. S1 definitely captured the mystery and the horror the greatest, while later season zombies just seem to be rotten flesh sacks.
Couldn’t agree more
Realistically they’d probably decay and just die pretty quickly.
It doesn't help that the zombies are at three stooges level competency 99% of the time, but any time a character has to die or get bitten they become Winston Churchill mixed with Sam Fisher in terms of strategy and stealth.
@@PinkManGuy it always makes me angry when a stealth walker appears
@@rainman632 you tell ‘em D Wade
I thought it would be cool for this guy to turn up periodically before every major event that happened within the show. I always thought that would've been so cool and mysterious. They could've used this guy as a sign or something to stimulate the dramatic irony within the show.
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@asdfghjkl They are called walkers for a reason
@asdfghjkl in the bus
And maybe in the last season have him transform in height by 100ft and have him walk down the streets of new york like king kong with normal sized walkers by his side. Being sarcastic obviously.
I thought he was a sort of "special walker" that could lead an horde or something like this
This one walker stood out to me with how "intrigued" he would look at Rick.
Season 1 zombies could still imitate actions that their living counterpart did before. Just like Morgan’s wife turning the doorknob. The guy probably rode the bus a lot when he was alive.
Yep, assuming to work due to his suit and tie.
or how the little girl Walker shuffled slowly bent down and picked up the teddy and starting walking again completely ignoring the "smell" of fresh meet (meaning Rick) she only noticed him when he called out to her she stopped turned around and just stared at him for a bit then launched at him
The walkers in season 1 were so much scarier I don't know what it is I guess they are more human like how they could pick up rocks and run. But maybe they had a different idea back then.
Well in that time the walkers just came back to life from being dead so everything in the body was still working fine meaning some intelligence was left and the physical body was fine.
When walkers were an actual threat
Thanks for the "walk" down memory lane! I live in Georgia and remember when all this went on. They filmed in many areas where I live and yes.....I am a "Walker Stalker" and have MANY autographs from cast members / walkers alike.. I had the great opportunity to chit chat with Mr. Joe Giles around SE2 - SE3 and he was very approachable and kind to his fans. I did happen to see another personal friend in 1 of the clips here. Her name is Michelle Flanagan-Helmeczy and she was also a "face" in SE2 EP3 "Save the last one". Truly I was amazed at how a TV show could bring so many people (cast, crew and fans) together and the bonds that we made.
The walkers had so much purpose in the early seasons
This was clearly one of the smart walkers. There were 3 in season 1 if I remember correctly: this dude, the one that breaks the glass in the store and the police walker that climbs the fence in the creepiest way possible
He is intriging he stands out than any walker and his eyes are powerful and he's very rememberable you can't forget him
I liked how the walkers were portrayed as animalistic with some sense of their past humanity left back in S1 and a little bit of S2. That’s why Morgan’s undead wife and this guy were both so unsettling, because you know they’re dead, these thing’s technically shouldn’t be up and walking and biting any living thing, yet they are, and what makes it worse, they’ve retained some past memories of their old lives when they were still human. S3-6 were still great to watch, but S1 and 2 really hooked the audience in with how some walkers acted, like the rando with the brick that it used to bash down the mall doors.
I actually love season 1 because the walkers seemed like they had some kind of knowledge or sense. I like to think that in the early days, when you died you came back with some knowledge of your life but still have the urge for flesh. As the walkers rotted I felt it made sense they would get slower or dumber, more animalistic. Sadly, fresh walkers down the line didn't seem to have the same sense, but I always thought it was cool. However, that was Frank Darabont wanting to make George Romero zombies, not Robert Kirkmans... for that I feel like is a key factor in replacing him.
Here are a couple of Frank Darabont related videos I have done:
Franks Dark Side
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Season 1: In the Beginning
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Yes, that zombie seemed to have more awareness than the others and really stood out.
He was so memorable to me because i just referred to him as the kevin bacon zombie , also because i found it odd that some shots would focus on him for a bit
They missed some potential with this zombie. I just realized that this walker could've been like the homeless woman from Sons of Anarchy, where he shows up periodically. They should have him show up when big events happen. For example, when the prison was overrun, the purple shirt guy should be walking into the prison with the other walkers.
Yeah he's like a variant fr
Whatever happened to the graghic comic cartoon that was on the website ' when the Walking Dead , first started a Decade ago ? It started with Rick waking up in the Hospital , he wanders a bit till he walked and opened the ; Don't Open Dead Inside doors , then he makes it to the Parking garage on towards his home before Morgan's son Duane smacked Tha Sh*t outta of him , whatever happened to that concept , I was hooked on that for quite som time !
The animated version of the comic? I think it was a special edition issue just for issue 1 only.
"Who dat?" LOL! Thank you. That purple suit walker does always leave an impression.
I thought he was gonna be a "lead" walker. So creepy.
@Russ Foulkes, If I recall correctly, he is on the menu on the season 1 DVD. #quadstatecameras
My speculation on his in-universe backstory
He was an office worker in Atlanta that was still going to his job in the first days of the apocalypse, when society was still trying to function even with the mounting number of walkers. You can see that his tie is loosened and the top button on his shirt is undone, so he might’ve just gotten off work when a walker attacked him (you can see a bite wound on his neck.)
That’s all that I can firmly assume. I initially thought he might’ve died on the bus we see him on in the show, but considering that Operation Cobalt napalmed a bunch of cities but he doesn’t have much of any burn marks on him, maybe he was inside a building when it happened. Then, as a fresh walker, he emerged outside with muscle memory still somewhat intact, saw the bus, and since he likely used it a lot in his living life, he might’ve sat on the bus for memory’s sake.
Not sure why he didn’t join the feast on the horse though.
Yeah it seemed like he didn't care for horse or found Rick much more interesting haha
Maybe he has memories involving consistent interactions with police. An informant maybe.
"I didn't bite her! I did nooottt! Oh hi Marc."
I know the guy who played this walker, he was also the movement coordinator for the walkers and the makeup artist. Joe Giles.
He says the original plan was for this zombie was to be special and follow Rick for a while. They where gonna give him a back story and all. Then someone got fired and that plan got thrown out.
Finally 10 years later, now I can sleep well 😴
That walker always creeped me out lol
This guys stuck with me since 2010... I’ve always wondered and never have forgotten.
I never thought it was gonna be a big deal because I just thought maybe he felt that Rick was juicer and better than the horse?
The back story is that Jim Carey was is Atlanta for the shooting of Grinch 2: The Grinch Strikes Hotlanta, when he got bit by a zombie that was meant to play a Who. Then he turned into a zombie after a day and a half. Relevant back story complete.
I wish I could go back to the days of being in high school and WAITING the entire week for Sunday for the next episode of TWD. It’s crazy that it started in 09 I am class of 2011 and I used to anticipate this show so bad. Seasons 1-4 will forever be some of the best TV ever!
good old days
I remember I started to watching this in 7th grade when I was 13. Now I’m 21 and in college. Crazy how time flies.
Show started when I was 27. High school years suck. Your best years are still ahead of you.
In a zombie show you gotta have a lot of extras. Makes sense to use crew members who are already there and understand what the show needs.
Frank was fired shortly after Season 1. Ultimately gaining a large sum via a multi million dollar lawsuit. The reason the walkers are so vastly different from those we've seen since Season 2 to present is due to Frank depicting the walkers as semi "intelligent" (i.e. the little zombie girl bending over and picking up the doll/teddy bear lying in the street, purple shirt guy gazing at Rick intently despite the various stimuli & commotion encircling him, Morgan's reanimated wife walking up the steps to the house she died in to appear as though she were looking in the peep hole and also turning the door handle to get in). Once Frank was replaced, this walker trope was trashed and they became the unintelligent, horde/group mentality, single-linear "thinkers" that most movies and/or shows depict them to be.
It’s a variant strain in the US that evolved cognitively while the Europe ones are more violent. Curious for the South American, Asian AND other areas.
He stuck in my mind, because I thought he looked like Glenn Danzig
I called him the rockstar zombie, when explaining to my sister about a scene
The show was so amazing in the first 2 seasons. Frank Darabont was a genius!
Based on his outfit i would actually guess the purple shirt guy was formerly some attorney that recognized rick, maybe he was remembering briefly that rick was a cop, not aggressively approaching him, maybe already had in his previous life.
Holy fuck I was rewatching TWD this weekend and I notice him, he gets quite a few seconds of screen time when he’s looking at Rick in the tank
The Walkers in Season 1 were definitely different than the rest of the Seasons. The Walkers now IMO don't even appear threatening and it has nothing to do with the amount of time they have been dead.
The series shifted from Walkers being the main threat to other survivors. The first two seasons it was just a learning curve of staying alive.
Later, the show had to assume that most anybody else still alive had to have similar survival skills to the main group so the drama and tension
became mostly about that.
@@TheLAGopher probably because irl viruses adapt and also over time it would rot their brains and bodies so even if someone just recently died in later seasons, they still wouldn't be able to run or anything because the virus wouldve still been adapted
exactly, even recent walkers like Deanna or Siddiq are slow and dumb. They really killed the fear factor of the show
I included this walker in my edit I'm currently making. I showed him while Morgan says "They may not seem like much one at a time"
cool, I just subbed and turned on notifications so I can watch it when you upload it
That walker really intersted me. He was the first walker I saw with yellow eyes. He mightive been important if the director wasnt fired
Well he's kind of hot guy for zombie he's a high zombie everything my life yeah he did good job remember him
I like how the shirt walker zombie seemed to have personal traits left and stalk Rick as if he has a personal agenda against him.
Morgans wife is also an example which looks unusual and also comical like the mentioned shirt walker.
Makes sense. In season one they had less experience to make them look/behave like in current episodes.
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S1 walkers where also way faster, could power walk and climb fences.
Saddest death in the walking dead is that horse. Rick told the house that he would make some new friends in the city maybe and then abandoned him the second walkers showed up and didn’t even bother shooting the horse to prevent him from suffering.
poor horse...things were getting crazy in that moment though
@@TWDExplainedI feel like the horse got it's revenge in rick's hallucination, (when Rick found Shane) where It transformed into a white horse and the walkers, weren't doing nothing to the horse and the walkers were just following it, because It was carrying rick.
@@giancarlolugo9586 I like it
@@TWDExplained and id like to think the horse was invisible to the walkers, in that hallucination so when Rick found Shane and left the horse there, the animal probably kicked some walkers with it's rear legs, and bashed the heads with it's hoove's horshoes as a revenge for getting eaten, 10 seasons before.
I know exactly who he is! He's "but you didnt have to cut me off"
I found this guy interesting and memorable because I thought he liked like Jim Carey. I thought maybe Carey decided to do a cameo for kicks lol
The writers and the producers had a dispute about budget and so the season 1 writers were kicked out and replaced.
Originally they wanted to have different variants of walker with different abilitys and varios levels of intelegence.
The new writters dropped that concept and just towards the end of the main series came back to it.
I personally beliefe that the purple guy was supposed to be on of the "Smart" variants since he stood out from the others, however he was never mentioned again since the concept of "smart walkers" was dropped.
There's one in S4 E8 that looks very similar. It may be the same one. Right after the Governor is killed, the camera zooms in on the walker for like 2-3 seconds.
I know which one you are talking about, but I think that’s the woman who stabbed her self in the woods
This zombie automatically reminded me of Kevin bacon....not sure why
The walker could've been on the bus as a human and died of suffocation. Napalm draws the air out area around. So when being napalmed you don't just have to die of the fire, you can die of lack of oxygen too.
always thought he was someone special as emphasis was made on him......10 years to get my answer 😁
It’s interesting how as the seasons went on the walkers degraded not just physically but mentally as well. Here in season 1 they still had a semblance of intelligence but in the late seasons this seems almost entirely absent.
As far as the show's lore goes - that is not exactly correct - here is a recent video that helps explain it. The variant walkers (smarter ones) are regional. th-cam.com/video/toO4y2slAzw/w-d-xo.html
Purple shirt walker stood out for sure. Not growling, no arms raised, no reaching. Just a merciless stare and a steady walking lurch forward.
The well walker is iconic. The teddy bear girl is iconic. This is just a zombie in a nice suit.
haha yep - but when shown to someone - very recognizable
teddy bear girl video:
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Rick Shoots Little Girl Video:
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I loved how there were clues and Easter eggs that shows there is more going on that reminds you that just because we are following specific characters, that they aren't the only characters.
When I first watched this, I thought it was a human in disguise and only on rewatch did I realise it was just a walker
it IS a human in disguise :)
Simple... He's the Ultimate Walker.
He doesn't need to eat
He still has human intelligence
He doesn't Rot
He cannot Die
He also regenerate
He still has his memories intact
Kevin bacon 80's zombie. Skinny footloose tie.
That's Charles Lee Ray from Chucky in different universe
i remember i had the purple walker guy as an action figure.
Purple shit action figure UH OH
@@spudwithaz7750 typo :’)
The man in purple and the half-body guy impressed me most among walkers in S1
I always found it creepy how he just watched rick get into the tank tho. Like he didnt seem as zombie as the rest
btw i think why in the first season thje zombies could climb/run etc is cus they were fresh zombies, and the virus was way more potent in their blood
Thank God somebody said something about that Walker.
I've always referred to that Walker as "The Curious Walker". It would have been nice to have a backstory on him, it would have been pretty interesting if there was.
Yeah walker backstories would be cool - thanks for watching!
I did naht bite you, Lisa. I did NAHT.
I've always referred to that walker as Wormtongue, due to his striking similarity to Grima Wormtongue from the LotR films
Yeah, thats what I thought too.
i half expected the walker to turn around and say, "oh hey mark"
if you pause at 1:23 and look at his neck you'll see a bite wound, i assume he was bit on the neck and died from blood loss
I always thought this walker was “ The Lone Walker “ that Rick sees randomly roaming through the wheat fields multiple times later own in seasons 1 to 5.
This reminds me of Frank's plan to make an episode for the Walker in the Tank!
So now he’s been retconned into one of the final season’s smart ones right?
So he's basically like the nameless female zombie from Resident Evil. In that almost lots of fans know who he is. However unlike the nameless female zombie who apparently appears in lots of media, this one appears once.
This fella moves in such a creepy way! You know how the walkers eat so much.. do they ever poop?
" _These creatures are nothing but pure... motorized... instinct. We must not be lulled by the concept that these are our family members or our friends- they WILL not respond to such emotion. They must be destroyed ON SIGHT_ "
Zombies are known to just sit down and wait somewhere so he definitely could have just wandered onto the bus
Man keep pumping out the content! Your doing great 😊
Appreciate it!
@@TWDExplained no problem bro keep it up! Your such a inspiration!
I've always my head canon that the more they decompose the more wild and animal like they become.
Like Morgan's wife for example, she was clearly dead but almost untouched by extreme decay, and seemingly trying to "go home".
Walkers going towards Rick: not creepy
Walkers ignoring Rick: creepy
When I watched this scene for the first time, I thought that maybe he was a human who tricked the walkers by pretending to be a walker himself so he wouldn’t get killed.
Tommy Wiseau zombie ofc
He was definitely one of those walkers that stood out from the rest
He was definitely one of the Creepiest with the stare at Rick like, You Wanna Fight Bro? Or I mean Bite!
haha yep
What’s more mysterious is the old ass Nissan with new rims