Daryl Dixon Highlights a Glaring Missed Opportunity The Walking Dead Has Ignored All Along

The Walking Dead TV franchise has grown to enormous proportions in its more than decade of existence since the original series debuted in 2010.

It has spawned numerous spin-offs and explored different parts of the show's world, but for some reason has almost completely ignored one of the most interesting.

The franchise's latest spin-off, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, clearly shows that the topic of the beginning of the zombie virus outbreak is still very much on the minds of fans, as even after so many years the franchise has barely touched on the subject.

The opening of the second episode presented us with the backstory of Isabelle, portrayed by Clémence Poésy, before she became a nun, showing her troubled past of drug use and thievery.

However, everything changes once the outbreak begins and Isabelle finds herself in the middle of the unfolding chaos, barely escaping the agonizing Paris.

Fans were quite impressed with the intense sequence, calling it the best episode of the entire franchise in recent years.

However, they also expressed the wish that The Walking Dead would focus more on the actual events of the outbreak and its immediate aftermath, instead of mostly showing things after the fact.

While there were occasional flashbacks, the catastrophe was never shown in its entirety, despite countless opportunities for many extremely effective scenes, such as the zombies on a subway train in the aforementioned episode.

Another thing that has kept fans up at night since the beginning of the series is the origin of the infection.

Unlike, say, The Last of Us TV series, with which Daryl Dixon shares many similarities, and which perfectly explained the origin and cause of the fungal infection in its very first episode, The Walking Dead never gave fans a definitive answer.

The closest it ever came to solving the mystery was in episode six of the show's first season, when the characters arrived at the CDC building in Atlanta, but the arc was immediately dropped after that.

Although it may be because the creator of the original comic, Robert Kirkman, never answered this question either, the show has deviated from the source material on several occasions, and doing so to provide an extremely desired answer might be a suitable case.

Episode 3 of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon will premiere on September 24, 2023.

Source: Reddit