Blog #8 (Fan Fiction)

I currently watch the TV show; "The Walking Dead", developed by Frank Darabont. Last week's episode was about the ongoing rivalry between Rick's group of people living in the prison and the Governor and his people of the neighbouring town. Meanwhile, Rick is still battling the death of his wife emotionally and others at camp are trying to fill his role as leader and making stupid scattered decisions on their own. The Governor shows up and open fires on the prison with his men, where both parties are trading shots back and forth. The Governor then unleashes a truck full of "Walkers" inside the gate of the prison and takes off. I feel this ending was good, however, somewhat unrealistic. Members of the prison group just so happened to arrive at the right time to help fight off the "Walkers". An alternate way I think the episode could have finished in is:

Rick is still outside the prison's fence, telling Hershel the emotions and confusions he still has about his wife's death. Gunshots begin from the woods as the Governor and a few of his men try to ambush the prison. (One non-important character from the prison gets caught in the cross fire). To the Governor's surprise, members that belong to the group from the prison Daryl and Merle arrive from the woods as well and flank their surprise attack. The Governor and his men are outnumbered and flee, some of his men getting caught by bullets and their truck of 'Walkers" becomes abandoned. The "Walkers" are flooding out of the truck's door, left open by the Governor's man. The men of the prison take off back within the prison's gates, however cannot get the hole in the gate tied off fast enough. "Walkers" start to flood into the first gated area. (Episode comes to an end).

I feel this would have given a more realistic ending, then the one watched on TV. With that many bullets being fired at each other and minimal barriers, there should have been a lot more dead people then there was. Also, the prison group outnumbers the Governor and his men, therefore instead of him casually leaving, it should have been a fleeing situation for him.