It was coupled by the fact that he knew very well that Travis’s intention was not to spend the rest of his life with his son, taking care of him. It was the first time, I think probably in a number of years, where Chris found people who acknowledged him not as some freak, but saw him as someone who had value. Ultimately, and sadly, he found a place, or some semblance of it, with a group of very, very violent American travelers who were just trying to get back to the States. To put it simply, it was a story about a kid who was trying to find a place. I think the death of his mother really amplified that, and his attempt to grasp what was going on, his attempt to just find some way to mourn and some form of catharsis, it led to him doing some very ugly things. He was already a kid who had a lot of anger and a lot of resentment. I think largely because Chris, if you go back to the pilot, and the backstory that preceded it, was someone who was disaffected. Why wasn’t he able to see how dangerous Derek and Brandon were?
I think he’ll still be very much a fierce defender, and protector of Alicia and Madison and the group that’s still important to him, but his methods of defending are going to be vastly different.Ĭhris was able to see a lot of things more clearly than Travis. He’s going to realize to some degree, morality has no place. I think he’s been broken down because of the loss, but he’s also going to remember the things Chris said to him. He had to understand that the world is what it is, because that’s part of what he’s going to take moving forward. I think the things he said to Travis at the end were true, and they might be, for most people who are schooled in The Walking Dead and the zombie apocalypse, obvious, but I think they had to be said to Travis. It was like Chris had found some kind of rhythm, and some kid of peace with the Americans, as nefarious and ugly as they were. Chris really schooled Travis for the first time. I think that was one of the important turns in episode 13. He has become the person that he desperately was trying not to become and that Chris had sort of warned him he was going to have to become to survive. His breakdown, the violence against Derek and Brandon was hard to watch, but also heartbreaking for what it means for Travis. I think there is a surrogate son out there somewhere who he might be able to reconnect with at some point. I think an attempt to find some redemption for his failure with his own son. He’s consumed by the apocalypse, and I think part of his journey as we move forward, it’ll be a much more violent turn. It was supposed to be bringing Travis to a place where he’s fundamentally changed. This was really supposed to be that writ large. I know we played a similar beat to that in the finale of Season 1. I think that he really stayed true to what a confused young man Chris was.īut it was really important that we, by the end of the season, put Travis in a place where his ultimate breakdown, and his turn to wrath and rage, felt earned. I know there was a lot of feedback on social media about Chris. I think it was a tough character to play. Lorenzo did a wonderful job in both seasons. One, he didn’t make good on his promise to Liza to protect his son at the end of day, and two, he did not do that because ultimately, he was still trying at the very end to hold on to the moral fabric of his own character - trying to fix and cure his kid.
I think that Travis’s failure, if you can call it that, is twofold. Because it was really about, at the end of the day, the impact he was going to have on Travis.
#Dave erickson return to fear the walking dead how to#
We had a lot of conversations about the circumstances of his death and how to depict it, and it was, I think, important ultimately that he died not off-camera, but that his death was filtered through someone else’s view. We see Chris’s death from the point of view of his killers relating it to Travis, not a direct action point of view, so is there any hope that Chris isn’t really dead?
0 kommentar(er)
