It's hard to be a wise old man at The Walking Dead. If you do not behead with a sword by the governor (rest in peace, herchal!), Then you will probably tore your stomach with a stray pedestrian. This is what happened to the poor Dale (EFFRI DEMNN), the guy who served as the voice of the primary group for survivors for nearly two whole seasons before His untimely death of "The Walking Dead". Did Dale's moral code occasionally bring him into the territory of Goody-two shoes? Eh, probably. But it is better to have too many scruples than anyone at all, and the group was worse in his absence.

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In the Judge "Walking Dead" on the TV show 2 episode ", jury, executioner", Dale patrolling the farm alone at night when he sees partial partial cow. He goes to examine just to be ambushed by a surprising walker. (Not a very competent man, we are sad to say.) Dale is strong enough to limit Walker to bite him, but Walker still manages to collect Dale's intestines with his hands. Darryl (Norman Reeds) eventually runs and kills Walker, but until then, Dale is already deadly wounded, leaving him a little choice but to shoot him in his head.

This is different from how things are going in the comics "Walking Dead". There, Dale is captured by a group of cannibals planning to keep him alive while cutting off their body parts. But the joke is on the cannibals, because Dale reveals that he was bitten by a stroller shortly before catching him, and by eating their legs they consumed spoiled meat. The fans of the Walking Dead TV will recognize this story as the one that happened to Bob (Lawrence Illiliard Runior) in Season 5; This means that if the series was true for comics, Dale was supposed to be about three seasons. Why would you write so fast?

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The most important thing to know about Demin is that he (and still is still) a longtime friend of director Frank Darner, a shower for The Walking Dead first season. The Da Da Da Dem has previously collaborated on The Shawshank Redemption, "Green Mile" and "The Mist" and hoped to work together for a long time at The Walking Dead before the higher AMC windows complicate everything.

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During the early part of the production of the 2nd "The Walking Dead", AMC pushed the Dar of the show out of the show due to many disagreements with them about the budget and creative direction of the show. The Dardan is still responsible for much of what is happening in Season 2, but for the most part the duties of the show were transferred to Glenn Mazara (who will continue to work with things until the end of the season 3). The full story of how the Danish was raised by "The Walking Dead" is long and messy, but the essence of it is Danet was treated badlyAnd Demin wasn't happy about it.

"I was furious about how Frank (Danatant) was kicked out of the show," demon Explain to Cleveland.com in 2018. "I spent a week, unable to breathe full breath. And then I realized," Oh, I can give up. " So I called them and said, "It's a zombie show. It was a huge relief for me."

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The circumstances behind Denun's departure are depressed, but at least led the show writers, as it could have been. Dale's death itself is filled with a bunch of interesting moments of character: the big one is when Rick (Andrew Lincoln) cannot get himself shooting Dale in the head, which is something with which later sides Rick would not have a problem with. Instead, Rick must allow Darryl to take the gun from him; It is a development that both establish the increased confidence between these two characters and marks the level of innocence that Rick still has at this time in the series.

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The other big moment of the character is here with Carl (Chandler Riggs). The young Carl was going through a slightly careless string at this moment in the show. Earlier in the episode, Carl Tounts was captured by Walker outside the farm; However, when Walker gets rid of and sticks to him, Carl runs away and does not tell anyone. While Dale lies on the dying land, Carl looks around and understands the voker he killed is the same as he has cheated before. Carl is destroyed to realize that he is indirectly responsible for Dale's death, but the incident leads to him to collect his work. With a large (but cute) exception, Carl finally ceases to wander out of the house after this episode.

In the long run, you can see the effect of Dale's absence in the series through the moral drop of Rick and the rest of his group. Very early in season 3, we see that Rick is a far stronger person than he left the season 2. At one point, he even kills a prisoner with a machete and seems to not feel bad about it; The prisoner in question was pretty bad, surely, but Rick of Season 2 wouldn't get away with him so fast. Other characters will eventually cause Rick to be a better person in the next few seasons, but none of them held the same swing that Dale had ever had. I don't know if "The Walking Dead" was better after Dale died, but it was definitely much darker.

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