I actually loved it. It shows that the show is going to be violent, gory, and shocking. It's everything the show is right there in the opening scene. Marketing wise, it was brilliant. A little disturbing, yes, but it caught my attention and held it, so it did its job by me.

 

I liked the opening sequence, for what its worth it summed up the entire feel of the series and what life is going to be like from here on out - a complicated, uncomfortable fight for survival.

For me, it really set the pace and the tone of the show. Sure, it wasn't sequential but stories don't always have to be told in a linear fashion.

 

I liked it. It got me pumped. Showed me that they're not afraid to go to extremes (showing the death of zombie children, etc).

 

I liked the scene , the King County Crown Victoria's where left over's from Batman Gotham city P.d .

 

I can see why people would see the opening scene as a bit much as it involves a girl getting shot in the head and landing in a splat of blood - zombie or not, it's still quite graphic and upsetting for some people. I can also see by people would think it was just an attention grabbing scene as this girl is very young. Does anyone know when this scene actually takes place in the dead timeline? I can't think of a time when Rick has had to pull over in a gas station to fill up. And besides, he didn't mention this to anyone.

 

As I learnt recently, this scene happened in between Rick leaving Morgan & Dwayne and reaching the house with the 'God Forgive Us' sign, where he took the horse from.

 

I think you are failing to see why they did that. The episode moves slow and the first walker we see chronologically is the non-threatening legless one on the ground

putting the little zombie girl in the beginning sets the tone "this is a bad ass show, not even children are safe and even children walkers are dangerous!"

Plus they had to do something to make the beginning different than 28 days later

Yes it was an attention grabber and I think it worked very well. Plus, not every episode follows a pattern. Some have flashbacks in the beginning, some don't. The two episodes dealing with the shane/otis thing had scenes all over the place and in all different orders......I think its cool that it's always different and doesn't follow a boring set pattern

 

Well that does make sense with it being in the Morgan/Duane timeline. Thank you for clearing that up

 

old thread.. but i'm gonna bump it up..

I really liked the opening scene for 2 reasons. that scene serves as the "you must be this tall to enjoy this ride" measuring stick at the fair. anyone can watch that scene and quickly decide if this is the type of show they can enjoy. and they can also decide if their kids/ friends/ parents should be watching

#2 when done well, it cuases the viewer to think more, to engage more with the story, which leads to a fuller sense of emersion into that story

IMO its the sort of thing that can easily be done wrong (leaving the veiwer to ponder plot holes, and what was the director thinking), but when done right its great, and gives a lot more enjoyment from re-watching. Like how watching certain movies the 2nd time is better , either due to telling the story out of order (pulp fiction) or having some bit of the mystery revealed near the end (fight club / total recall) that really comes into play when you watch it again.

 

This!

I think the opening scene was ok, nothing special, but it was filmed in that way because they probably wanted to get the attention of people. The first seconds/minutes are very important for pilot episode so people could keep on watching it and I think they had made it well.

 

Spoiler for people who didnt watch further then Season 2.

 

Just out of curiosity, what's wrong with a hook? TV, movies, and even theater use hooks all the time to grab audience attention. The only way it's cheap is if you have a script full of hooks with no substance, like a Michael Bay movie. Using a hook by itself goes all the way back to Shakespeare.

 

I thought it was brill - not needed - but brill all the same. Every show/movie has at least one scene that just doesn't need to be there but it adds 'stuff'.

And I'm totally not one of those that get's upset about seeing zombie children being shot it the head.

MORE!!!

 

I love it.

It portrayed 'This is The Walking Dead, and this is what we're about'

 

He didn't kill a little girl, he killed a walker that was going to kill him.

 

I liked how it started and I cudnt stop watching