The Walking Dead is more than just a hit TV show, and it's more than just one of the most influential comics in the history of the media. It became a surprisingly permanent multimedia franchise that helped redefine the zombie genre in the 2010s. HBO missed to turn "Walking Dead" into TV SeriesBut that loss has turned into AMC for 11 seasons. Not to mention all the spin-off. It's a cable TV empire. So, does creator Robert Kirkman regret? Especially one episode stands out in that regard.

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Kirkman, who created the series of thumbniks that inspired the TV show, spoke with Hollywood reporter In 2014, at the height of the popularity of the show. Asked about any regret he may have, Kirkman explained that, provided he took the chance, he would not finish the first season of the show as he did with a visit to the CDC. Why? Here's what Kirkman had to say about it:

"If I had to do it again, I wouldn't make the CDC episode. Maybe he gave too much information and it was so much change very early in the series. I was careful not to say what was going on in other parts of the world. It's something that would be fun to explore in the spin-off series."

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Season 1 "The Walking Dead" is still considered one of the best on the showAnd it ends with a particularly revealing episode entitled "TS-19". The episode shows that Rick and the group allowed the CDC from the strange D -Edwin Nerenner (Noah Emerich). However, everything is not what seems to be a refuge for survivors. The group learns that, in essence, every person now carries the virus and once they are dead, they will be resuscitated. CDC self -destruction by the end of the episode, with a little hopeless vibration.

While this episode answered some big questions that the fans had and helped to get the intrigue for Season 2, Kirkman feels too gifted. For what is worth, it is very special in the way he deals with the apocalypse of the zombie. For example, Never say "zombies" at "The Walking Dead,"What is a deliberate choice. Maintaining a particular mystery and maintaining things relatively grounded was important for Kirkman.

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The whole thing of France came out again after the leader show ended. Norman rids' Darryl Dixon left for France in his spin-named "The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon". Not to say that it would not happen otherwise, but the journey to France may have maintained a greater degree of mystery if that nail polish had not happened, at least in Kirkman's mind. However, the show enjoyed a very healthy escape and was, for some time, the biggest cable show. It is difficult to say that the episode has hurt the show in a significant way.

But how did this episode happen in the first place? In an interview for 2010 with Fun weeklyKirkman explained that in the discussion of the episode with the writer/producer Frank Darperant, he was sold to the idea as he reminded him of him One of the biggest sequels to horror ever made: "Day of the Dead" of George A. Romero.

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"When Frank took the idea, saying he wanted to bring them to the CDC and told me all the different things he thought would get out of that story, science was trapped in the small location, I painted a lot of" Day of the Dead ". That's one of the reasons I was on board the idea. "

You can grab "The Walking Dead Complete Series" on Amazon's Blu-Ray.