The Walking Dead Participatory Mode

There was a good amount of differences between The Walking Dead comics and the adaption in the television series. As Linda Hutcheon said in her book, “Beginning to Theorize Adaption: What? Who? Why? How? where? When? “there are three unique methods of engagement that we ought to consider in adapting examinations the telling mode, the showing mode, and the participatory mode. The television show version of The Walking Dead is an example of the showing mode as we are exposed to how the writers perceived the walking dead and viewers also have no control of what they are watching as they can only accept the depictions they are given in the TV series. With this type of limitations, the writers of the show must go above and beyond when they are adapting the show from the graphic novel that did very well on their own. As Hutcheon describes adaptation as a process as "an act of appropriating or salvaging" what she means by this is that when someone takes their spin on an adaption, they are using someone else's work for their own use and in salvaging it is seen as preserving the original person's work from a …show more content…
In the TV show, they also added characters like Merle Dixon, despite his role in the show being important in the comic he was nonexistent. I can also see the lighter tone taken in the second episode than the one depicted in the first episode. Throughout the first episode, there is dark tone as they emphasize the hopelessness and darkness that surrounds Rick at every turn. Despite that, in the second episode, there is a lighter tone taken as there is the bleak light of hope and humor is added in the mix to emphasize the potential hope that Rick has in finding his