The Walking Dead's Pilot is GREATEST of All Time - Overanalyzing The Walking Dead

[@coso695]

i guess shane really did put his fry in ricks ketchup

[@boqn9748]

Olive oil

[@revalone3944]

@@boqn9748olive oyl

[@KidneyStealer02]

It what start the zombie virus honestly

[@Tsuny999]

OLIVE OYL

[@Ada-fz9ug]

Finally, someone who wants a show about the initial fall as much as I do. I wanna see grocery stores being raided, government officials grappling with telling the public, the quarantine zones falling, the CDC trying to find the cause. I was so disappointed that Fear the Walking Dead was supposed to explore this stuff and completely skipped over it to tell another story about a much less interesting family surviving after the initial collapse. It could be so interesting!!! Also idk why this video doesn’t have a ton of views, I’ve wanted a video specifically about the pilot for so long.

[@Koroto]

YESSSS. I would genuinely say that Fear's initial depiction of the fall outclassed the horror of TWD.... only to throw it all away by the end of the first season 😭😭😭

[@esothetics]

​@@Koroto I take it that you read Franks response to an email in which he is detailing the story beats and structure of how he wanted Season 2's premiere to be ''Black Hawk Down'' but with zombies, Instead of walking in the woods and Carol moping about. Fuck AMC.

[@idris4587]

​@@KorotoIt truly was a massive disappointment I would of loved to see Darabounts vision of a episode during the fall of atlanta and some of the people in the original group Shane etc. Having a family in another place could of worked as well but they really failed to make that work too.

[@SupportTheLittleGuy]

The pilot felt like a movie. Season 1 as a whole feels like a movie also. I love the following 2 or 3 seasons but I always wonder what frank darabont’s version would’ve looked like if he was able to finish the show the way he wanted.

[@Paige0_0]

Yes! I wish he could’ve brought his vision to fruition. I’m sure the last few seasons would have been so much better. I stopped watching for years after Carl died in the show

[@jester7786]

I'll never get bored of Koroto talking about TWD

[@allisonnicole.]

Same! I will always click!

[@shauni8806]

Facts!!

[@evan2623]

Its true

[@mercyMEJ]

Straight up, it's been at least six years since I stopped watching the show but I still finished Koroto's entire retrospective.

[@FUJIIDEW]

Frank Darabont was the reason the beginning was so great. He surely knew how to tell a story, how to make characters feel like real people, how to make the Walkers more than walking corpses. I mean look at how they used to climb, use rocks, and even the scenes with the CDC? Incredible stuff. It cannot be denied that season 1 was extremely gripping due to Darabont's story telling. Man I wish we could have seen where the show went with his direction.

[@esothetics]

The walkers had better variation in tone, clothing and sounds and were beyond that overused *snarl* soundbite that shreds your ears. Just listen to how creepy they sound in Season 1 compared to the contemporary era.

[@FUJIIDEW]

@@esothetics I agree entirely. Can't even tell one walker from another anymore, they all look like clones and they barely even look like corpses, they're basically mummies.

[@arabela5092]

the silence in the beginning scenes, and then the constrast, that got me in such a way, I was mesmerized

[@arabela5092]

@@esotheticstrue, they truly did seem like decayed humans more than walkers, if that makes sense. I could see little specks of how they used to be human not too long ago. Like, a graphic tee, glasses poorly placed or even a backpack hanging on their back (I’m not sure if these are ones that truly existed but I hope you get the idea)

[@esothetics]

@@arabela5092 It was back when every walker had individual makeup applied to them due to budgetary reasons. Once they could “make” enough whisperer masks for the walker actors, they just had them all wear that and applied minimal effort to the clothing which consisted of 99% of them wearing grey shirts and jeans.

[@AStangeSoup]

24:48 as an American that 50 mile joke was so funny yet so true, the closest store is a mile away and there are some points where one side of the street just doesn't have a sidewalk and there are no bike lanes so it's either car or military helicopter as transportation options

[@Sterl500]

Sometimes there is the thrill of becoming a moving obstacle for the cars. Like a real life game of frogger. That or wading through some knee high grass and potentially traversing over some broken glass or some used needles. Plenty of surprises available to pedestrians when they're second thoughts! :D

[@golbez1583]

Dude the way you described Rick waking up in the hospital sounds like Rick got Isekai’d by shotgun-kun to the walking dead universe

[@rgw7345]

I can't wait to read the next arc of "I was a policeman with a fairly happy life but then I got shot several times and now I woke in a hospital during the zombie apocalypse."

[@golbez1583]

@@rgw7345 Admittedly a better premise than “I died and reincarnated as a revolver in the next life.”

[@thomaswillard6267]

​@@rgw7345I hear that's gonna be the second season of High-school Of The Dead

[@jefferyorr7271]

⁠​⁠@@thomaswillard6267 you heard tales of a season two 🔥

[@duncanlemp692]

I was JUST talking to my wife about wishing that an overanalysis series on TWD would start. Please keep this up for the whole series!!! At least the first couple seasons when the show was still good please!

[@plagx3428]

He did. Check his playlist

[@Akial2935]

He never finished it though

[@ArDeeMee]

Welcome to the channel. Go watch his insanely detailed TWD playlist. =)

[@duncanlemp692]

@@ArDeeMee Many thanks!

[@blakelandry9313]

Can’t wait for your final walking dead retrospective honestly the first season I think is my favorite out of all the seasons in the entire show

[@omensoffate]

Because it’s by frank

[@Slimerror]

The thing about smart walkers is that they didn't completely disappear, they just became more subtle. Such as when the old farmer introduced in season 2 got bit on the leg by a zombie that was 'playing dead' it is true that usually the smart walkers now just get boiled down to lurkers that sit around waiting for prey to walk into their grasps

[@razettoebonvar]

Dipping your fries in your buddy's sauce is not gross by necessity. It can also show how good of friends they really are, and build at the pain of betrayal

[@connortheassassin]

Korotos Mystery Shack rides again! I imagine this series could be twice as long as the last TWD one you did

[@justarandomchannel8150]

I've rewatched the pilot episode more times than I can count and it never gets old

[@esothetics]

The Atlanta scene gets me hyped more than any other scene in the series other than The Governor Vs Rick's final prison battle.

[@danielragsdale9849]

On the bike portion, you'd think considering the U.S. really is very spread out and it's almost necessary to have a car in places like the midwest that we'd stop making some of the least fuel efficient, largest, and dangerous cars in the world. Wonder how many people in TWD got screwed that way considering you'd never make it out of the city in an SUV that takes up more than half the road. For sure aren't going off road with them.

[@charlotteferguson5102]

This opening episode had me hooked! It wasn't anything I thought I'd ever see from a TV show

[@sh1nji0]

Koroto back on TWD?! We are so back 🗣️

[@lightningmonky7674]

I love your channel and appreciate all your commentary, even if every once in a while I don't agree with all of it, I respect what you do and how much work you obviously put in. Please don't stop making these analysis. I was there every day you uploaded the comic/show comparison/analysis series, I looked forward to every episode and couldn't wait to tune in just like the original show.

[@dannyl434]

Ooh I was going to try going back to sleep but I’m so glad I did a quick morning scroll for new posts. Hooray for the walking dead!!!!🎉

[@pyroAdapt]

Thw guy in the tank is also not just some random dude for many other reasons. He is the voice actor for Deacon St John in the game "Days Gone" qs well as the playable character "StarKiller" in the Star wars Force unleashed series

[@esothetics]

He played a military man in The Mist (Frank Darabont) and was led on to become a episodic protagonist for the Season 2 premiere flashback.

[@xangel_dawnx5130]

Over analyzing TWD?!! Something I didn’t know I needed but so happy to get it!! Also I just watched this episode the other day so the timing is perfect!

[@johnbadman3340]

I absolutely love the bit where Rick wakes up and thinks he's talking to Shane, there's this high pitched noise that plays as the camera cuts to Rick and it's like you literally see Rick shunted into the apocalypse

[@Sarcosuchas]

I agree that we need more early apocalypse stuff from the series. Every time a show gives us some of that it just makes me more interested to see how it all went down across the world. Seeing more foreign countries would also be nice, so it's not just a franchise about the American countryside and woodlands.

[@TheChessSage]

dude your channel is the best man, watched all of your aot videos and am so hyped for this series, make sure your taking time to relax when your not putting in the effort writing, editing, and doing all the other stuffs involved in making videos 🙏🤙

[@joshneumann7364]

I’ll never get over how AMC hoed Frank Darabont about season 2

[@chucksellers8422]

When you think about the walkers you think of the half woman Hannah, the little girl with a bear, the tank walker, Morgans wife, and the purple jacket walker, all from the very beginning.

[@Person0fColor]

In the book Shane really is Ricks friend and the loss of everything changes Shane. In the show Shane is never Rick's friend it really destroys the character and plays into Rick being "the Good guy" Rick doesnt have to worry about killing his what should be his "best friend" because he dipped his fries in Rick's "ketchup"

[@The_DB9223]

i know it would take forever but i would absolutely love to see you cover each episode more in depth than in the normal retrospective. id do it myself if i wasnt so bad at speaking into the microphone.

[@DourFlower]

This is refreshing, full stop. The walking dead but the spark and love is back. I wouldnt even be mad if you never finish the retrospective if its in service of positivity and appreciation

[@theblazinken3501]

It's so wierd seeing Jon Bernthal in these clips having only seen The Punisher and not TWD.

[@jakehamilton1589]

A series of these videos about the best episodes in twd would hit

[@andrewdominate]

It really is a masterpiece in entertainment. Greatest pilot of all time if you ask me.

[@xavikortekaas9174]

25:00 US infrastructure in an apocalyps is very useful for bikes. The highways won't be used for cars especially after a few years so a lot of road is available for bikes and it is more realistic for the highway to be full of broken cars and bikes can manouvre through them more easily.

[@Rosebbygirl]

Idk about you but it's 20 miles for a gas station/grocery store for me

[@MelissaMayhem99]

I'm doing a re-watch of the series for the first time since it's finale and knowing where everyone ends up, adds a layer of beauty and sorrow to the early seasons. You really appreciate their journey. I distinctly remember renting the entire season 1 on Redbox, it was one or two discs, and it was just magic watching the story unfold like we had never got in a zombie flick. I miss the grainy film style, the character focused plots, the morality struggles, and more than anything the non boomerang story telling that was ultimately the shows demise. Then spin off after spin off 🤦‍♀️ This and Breaking Bad I'd say are the two best pilots of any TV series

[@Eric-gd6fr]

Was enjoying the video, 16:25 Imu reaction convinced me to sub lol

[@Paige0_0]

I rewatch my favorite shows a lot more than I’d like to admit. My favorite of all of my favorite shows is to go back and watch the very first episode of TWD. The whole first season is so good

[@thekerglinberger8951]

Fuck, this channel is so good. Well done, Korotos.

[@kianacarmack]

This show used to give me INTENSE anxiety while watching when it first came out. I would have nightmares, but it was so good I had to keep watching. It took a good 3 times of rewatching the first couple seasons for it to not give me anxiety anymore 😂

[@munbrazeh6700]

i looooove your yapping!!! Your videos on TWD, ATLA, SNK are so good and i love listening to them like a podcast and rewatching them, binging them. Also, im also a non native english speaker and OMG your accent is just so good?? My accent is so bad in comparison lol

[@Koroto]

Many thanks for the kind words, plenty more ATLA & AoT coming very soon too! My accent's just an outcome of being terminally online from the age of 5 😂😂

[@bl3man]

Krotos, I recently started watching Fear The Walking Dead and I'm really invested in it. I was hoping you could give it the same treatment you give TWD. Love your videos and your story telling

[@noratheweeb9387]

Tbh, the thing that makes the Wildfire virus is realistic is the fact that it's canon that in the TWD universe, there has never been anyone conceptualizing anything approaching zombies. If you threw it into our world, it would do damage, but we'd contain it and find a cure before it got as bad as it does in TWD.

[@EJPugh1331]

Amazing video as always. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE 🙏 come back and finish the retrospective.

[@aquathelynx962]

always a good day when Koroto uploads

[@samzi51]

Korotos cooking shack

[@matthewevans9405]

Just watched it again the other night with my dad to get him into the series - it is without a doubt in my top 10 episodes of Television that I’ve ever seen

[@helloholo1278]

the insane amount of depth you go into for your overanalyzing attack on titan series is already incredible and i can't imagine how good this walking dead series of yours will be

[@maryammenalagha8989]

King County was not Morgan's hometown, he was staying in Rick's neighbors' house, he is from another town or city, and was just passing through KIng County with his family on the way to Atlanta.

[@jdjtbgs2]

Holy shit a Koroto video about TWD! I was soooo disappointed when the Brad Pitt WWZ movie came out. I'd love it if they ever come out with a TWD-esque WWZ show or movie. I remember reading the book and coming across a part where there was "sonder" and it honestly shook me.

[@karmitdafruge1]

I agree this is the best pilot ive ever seen and its the best singular episode too

[@Jaythaking04]

25:10 Thanks for remembering the 13 Playstations. Most non- Americans forget that

[@prhmusic]

23:30 - never heard anything about this! Fascinating!

[@zanekersting9809]

We got what happened with the dont dead open inside in the webisodes . It’s called The Oath. Those walkers were put there by the creepy doctor. She probably helped him survive his coma

[@sehvlo0254]

This is fantastic. An amazing look back

[@davencannon2464]

The walkers trying to get inside or the dead little girl picking up the teddy bear. I feel like that could’ve just been muscle memory.😅

[@ravenknight4195]

Aw heck yeah, More Korotoro content!

[@chucksellers8422]

Torn Apart is wonderful. That actress is amazing.

[@The_Local_Goose]

Finally, more koroto walking dead, I've waited so long

[@aligatito2502]

FINALLYYYYYYYYYY I’ve been wanting an overanalyzing series on twd for soooo long 😝😝😝😙😙

[@andyburton9733]

It’s basically 28 days later …..not giving out that’s a fantastic move too !

[@MrNubfish]

I did not know about the bicycle zombie lore, damn that hit pretty hard!

[@ФеофанЭтополедолжнобытьзаполне]

For me those details actually added a lot to the plot (or rather to my expectations of it). I was triggered by the girl picking up bear, by fence/ladder climbers, -by sniffers, by staredowners and by water_drinkers-, so when I heard "CDC" I hoped TWD will take a turn into "wtf happened and how we fix it" territory. It was a huge thing, to suspect that zombies are not actually 100% braindead. Unfortunately, TWD went straight to soap opera (and ten years later just turned its lore into Left 4 Dead).

[@dura_14]

"order and chaos" yo was that a splatoon reference

[@IG_ArticleParticle]

This this is what I wanted I wanted individual breakdowns of each episode not the entire season that's like trying to shove an entire anime into a movie

[@carrion5649]

I just realized that Rick shooting the little girl in the first episode is foreshadowing for him having to shoot Sophia later on in Season 2. I love the earlier seasons so much.

[@omensoffate]

That’s not foreshadowing 😂

[@carrion5649]

@@omensoffate Rick only killed 2 zombie girls. The first was a zombie girl he didn't know when he was still the 'good guy'. The 2nd zombie girl was Sophia which he knew before she was bit and it was one of the biggest driving forces for him pushing away his 'good guy' personality to accept the new world he was in so he could make the proper choices to keep himself alive. And considering Sophia lives way longer in the comics, that also adds some credibility to that idea. That doesn't mean it's true obviously, but it doesn't seem fully coincidental in my opinion.

[@andreavoigtlander1087]

@@carrion5649 true.

[@HolyRollerGuero]

My only issue with this is entire episode is when Rick tells him to check to see if his safety is off on a Glock handgun.. glocks don’t have safeties. Sorry gun nerd problem 😂

[@Weltshmerz]

It doesn't have to be manual as in the show, so you are objectively wrong.

[@HolyRollerGuero]

@@Weltshmerz yes but he thumbs at where a safety would be and it makes the sound of a safety coming off which isn’t accurate

[@kagetsu13]

Note to self avoid glocks

[@Sterl500]

@@kagetsu13 it's got a safety built into the trigger mechanism. The idea is that you won't need to remember to disengage the safety if you have to use the firearm while having enough to prevent accidental discharges because a user dropped it. In practice, you have to be vigilant in safely handling the gun (as you should be), and to have the right kind of holster so that the trigger doesn't get caught on something, or you roll a nat 1 on your dexterity check when drawing the firearm. Outside of a rare malfunction, a glock is completely safe to handle if you are a diligent gun owner. It's too bad there's a lot of people out there who shouldn't own a gun, let alone a glock.

[@kagetsu13]

@@Sterl500 Isn't that what a semiauto is? Halfway between auto and revolver which needs to be cocked each time?

[@Chalant_VeryChalant]

I love these videos.

[@Siena2209]

Loved it, thanks

[@rileywhite8003]

Hope you do all the major episodes in the series!

[@zanekersting9809]

Ricks revolver=Hella cinematic lol

[@bluebeeff]

im halfway through season 9, I cannot wait to binge watch your videos on TWD 🥰

[@MattBuckhout]

Please do another one I love these

[@wizard_of_poz4413]

I find it funny how Rick doesn't understand how guns work when he tells Leon to take the safety off of a g17 which doesn't actually have a manual safety

[@Luke973T]

That constantly happens in movies and TV shows. No idea why Hollywood loves to do that. One cool thing is how Rick lost his hearing for a bit when he shot the gun in the tank. Most shows ignore that detail.

[@IrkenProperty]

Koroto? Talking Walking Dead? ... *unfolds deckchair* Oh, it's a good day.

[@jovenc4508]

I like how they just kinda forget about Rick's injury right after the shower.

[@silith7027]

I'd like to mention Oshi no Ko for having one of the greatest first episodes of all time.

[@shaquille7414]

It’s been a while😭

[@JonathanHebron212]

yesss more twd content never stop please and thank you

[@AssumingCtrI]

Wait, are we starting analyzing TWD once again, from the very first episode? Awesome!

[@ubertutorials4872]

YES PLEASE IM SO FOR IT YESSSSSS OVERANALYZING

[@davencannon2464]

If The Walking Dead explained the collapse of the containment centers and stuff they would make it work and it would be ruined. It wouldn’t be how you’re describing.

[@Person0fColor]

So Rick being a gigachad is the antidote to the gigachad 🤣 This is the best and least offensive way he could say "dont be a phag"

[@slavy2]

I love every video you have about TWD

[@1fulsniperlegend]

Why did they never do anything with the crows becoming infected themselves? I’m sure it may have been a resident evil thing and maybe they couldn’t really do it because of that but with them eating the infected it made me wonder why didn’t they do anything with it

[@xtremevigilante3525]

that's not exactly how diseases work, many animals can eat diseased meat because they don't transfer across species

[@dethofgod666]

I know the ketchup thing may be weird for a normal person but it didn't even occur to me watching it the first time. Hell I've shared cigarettes with my buddies if it's my last one or I needed a couple drags and I was out. I imagine cops are that close with their partners

[@calebkeck7840]

If youve never read the comics I highly recommend them. You can get the 4 compendiums relatively cheap that is all the issues together like books. The story follows the same beats but is also entirely different. The art design, the characters and the shear brutality they couldn’t show on tv is OUTSTANDING.

[@Koroto]

If only there was a series called The Walking Dead - A Brief Retrospective to talk all about those differences, huh? 🗿🗿

[@calebkeck7840]

@@Koroto not the same, awesome video but still better to read the story on your own

[@themagnificentorange672]

​@@calebkeck7840 He's talking about himself lol, he's made dozens of videos comparing the comics and the show

[@michaelshirhall1831]

The zombie kid scene is why TWD was successful.

[@arabela5092]

Love Rick, but i don’t know WHAT he was thinking by going into a CITY, I mean

[@timmatje7376]

another day, another question about when you will make another twd-comic retrospective

[@sh1nji0]

Real, he's close to the end, idk why doesn't he finish it already

[@timmatje7376]

@@sh1nji0 yeah right, its maybe like 2 or 3 more videos

[@CRIDIC]

650 miles from home so thank you korotos

[@sulturwood3226]

And now your excellent observation and critical analysis skills have come to the first season of TWD. Are you going to be doing an episode by episode analysis of the first few seconds similar to AOT, or are you going to be doing a few episodes here and there? Personally, I'd love to hear you go over seasons two and three, as they're two of my favorites.

[@StraightEdgeJunkie]

The door doesn't say "Don't Dead Open Inside"; it's "Don't open, dead inside". It's because there are dead locked behind the door.

[@Schwizzzz]

Whoooosh, went straight over your head. That’s been a long running meme since it came out.

[@rickrhymes1]

Anyone who reads across rather taking in both words on the one door at once before looking towards the other door is stupid. DON'T - DEAD OPEN - INSIDE

[@Weltshmerz]

Wrong, it clearly states to stay alive and to open the door and get inside.

[@golbez1583]

And here I thought it said “Open Don’t Inside Dead.” Guess I’m just too used to reading right to left.

[@Lezzyboy87]

​@Schwizzzz pretty sure youre the one n getting whooshed

[@TheTom20]

I sometimes wonder how tv twd would have looked like if we had Frank Darabont from the start to the commonwealth

[@esothetics]

It most likely would've ended *way* before 2020.... but imagine the quality, dynamic, cinematic structured storytelling. I watched The Mist the other day and there are so many nodes and story beats from that movie that are written all other Season 1.

[@Lezzyboy87]

I really want to speak to the dont dead open inside guy 😂😂

[@thomaswillard6267]

18:00 "It's not a story about him rising to become a legend in the apocalypse" Uh... yes it is? Like he isn't a hero in the first issue, but the story of The Walking Dead culminates in Rick being a Legend of the Apoclaypse around which the a new society can fasten together and regrow. It's literally the entire point of the final issues.

[@Koroto]

For me at least, getting a statue in a single settlement doesn't classify being a legend. He's obviously a historically important figure, but he alone isn't responsible for some miracle or magical solution to the apocalypse. Probably should've phrased it a little better, but by "legend" I mean someone who straight up created a cure something along those lines.

[@esothetics]

@@Koroto Him becoming a ''Legend'' were the writers catching on and trying to mythologise him *post the main show* when the wave of Zoomers binge watched the show during the sigma edit era.

[@flex0899]

OMG, someone finally said it

[@Gunitz89]

the second season being about the soldier and the fall of Atlanta is such a lost opportunity

[@esothetics]

Man.... someone needs to get ol' Frank on a podcast or even just an interview; where he talk about what actually fucking happened on the show - even if he spills his heart out...

[@Koroto]

If you haven't read his letters from the season 2 days (I talk about them in the season 2 retrospective video too), those paint a pretty good image of what was going on in his mind 😅

[@MillenniumIdolPJH]

I just watched every episode of his Attack on Titan playlist only to find out he also covers TWD 😍😍😍

[@offensive.sewing.0538]

tbh i never watched twd but i still enjoy ppl talking about stuff i never had time to watch😂 like a dude talking for 4 hours about lost

[@Koroto]

Early TWD is peak fiction. You have know idea what I'd give to watch it for the first time all over again 😭😭

[@Bumpercat86]

if only shane hadn't dipped his fry in ricks ketchup

[@zwywhoo]

the first seasons of TWD are a TV Marvel, one of the best of all time. Top 3 surely.