AMC what have you done?!

Same Old Song:  TV for a long time was really predictable and boring (still kinda is), and it lacked anything original.  That's why you see about a billion different "Law and Order's", "CSI"s, and a "Jersey Shore: Italy"?  I pity the brain of the fool who watches that show and takes it seriously, it's only a matter of time before Italy drops a bomb on the U.S. for such a disturbing crime.

Praise Frank Darabont!:  just when I thought I was about to sink into despair (in other words, watch an infomercial) I saw that there was a new zombie TV show coming out called "The Walking Dead", and since I love zombies and am semi-fan of the graphic novels (I've only read so much, doesn't mean I don't like them), I figured this show could be my salvation.  Frank Darabont's "Walking Dead" blew me away, and seriously there was crap all over the place afterwards.  It's no surprise how good it was, especially since Frank is the director of some of the greatest movies ever made, including: "The Shawshank Redemption", "The Green Mile", and in my opinion, "The Mist", and "The Majestic".  "The Walking Dead" had the big production values of a major motion picture, yet it was an hour long series on TV, and so it was very impressive to behold.

Curse AMC:  After my daily checking of Horror news on Fear.Net, it was to my own Horror to see that AMC has fired our beloved Frank Darabont!!  Apparently (at least from what I've read), they got rid of him because they felt they could hire someone to make the show a little bit cheaper and not as grand.  I'm not going to dispute that Frank Darabont can be a little expensive at times, and "Walking Dead" defiantly reeked of that, but he's the person who made the show AS GOOD AS IT WAS!!!  Last time I checked the show won several awards, got huge ratings, satisfied zombie fans ho have yet to commune with other people and fall in love, and was known to be "The Best Show of the Year" - Entertainment Weekly.  I'm sure that I'll still be watching the show after Frank leaves, but i'm sure I'll have a bucket of cheap no-name brand ice-cream by my side.

What the Future Holds?:  Although the TV people will get what they want by not spending that much money on the show, the danger behind that is the possibility that "The Walking Dead" will be just another one of those crappy shows on the SYFY network... My apologies to SYFY, I actually do love some of your shows, you just need to get rid of 99% of your original movies before my heart explodes.  Hopefully they will keep Frank Darabont on as one of the staff at least, because it was his storytelling that made this show so successful in the beginning.