Da sesong syv av zombiesuksessen The Walking Dead hadde premiere i fjor høst, ble den møtt med mye kritikk fra folk som syntes premieren var altså brutal og voldelig. En av produsentene, Gale Anne Hurd, uttalte deretter at de skulle korrigere resten av sesongen for å lytte til seerne, men nå kommer to andre produsenter med en kontrabeskjed. På spørsmål om volden skal tones ned svarer nemlig produsent/regissør Greg Nicotero følgende:
"No.
As brutal as that Episode 1 was, it's still part of our storytelling bible, which is what the world is about, I don't think we would ever edit ourselves, and I think--even after looking at that Episode 1 again--as tough as it was for people to watch, I don't think we would have done it any differently. I don't think we'll ever pull ourselves back. There is definitely a difference between violence against walkers and human-on-human violence, but truthfully, we're serving our story."
The Walking Dead-sjefen Scott Gimple stemmer også i, og forklarer at volden i første episode ikke nødvendigvis vil gå igjen gjennom hele sesongen, men at historien trengte den:
"The violence in the premiere was pronounced for a reason. The awfulness of what happened to the characters was very specific to that episode and the beginning of this whole new story. I don't think like that's the base level of violence that necessarily should be on the show. It should be specific to a story and a purpose, and there was a purpose of traumatizing these characters to a point where maybe they would have been docile for the rest of their lives, which was Negan's point."
Man kan jo lure på om kritikerne har sett de tidligere sesongene.
Takk, Gamespot.