Look, Daryl’s Being Awesome!
If you haven’t gathered by now, what’s great about this trailer is that it promises that all of our heroes will each have some badass moments in the episodes to come. Those we haven’t mentioned include Michonne, Carl, Rosita and others. The guy who will always be our favourite to see doing cool stuff, though, is Daryl.
Norman Reedus’ breakout star didn’t have the strongest arc last season, what with being incarcerated by Negan for a lot of the run, but now he’s back and out for vengeance this year. Armed with his crossbow and reunited with his motorcycle, it looks like the Daryl we know and love again.
In probably his best bit in the trailer, Daryl rides past and sets off explosions. With one pull of the trigger, fire erupts behind him and he drives off, with a satisfied half-smile on his face. The whole cast of The Expendables have nothing on this guy. Have Bruce Willis, Sly Stallone and the others survived a zombie apocalypse? No, we didn’t think so.
Different Flavoured Walkers
The show is called The Walking Dead and we’d be disappointed if there wasn’t any zombie action to ogle at in the trailer as well as the more character-led moments. Thankfully, the season 8 teaser delivers, with several new and nifty walkers showing up.
There are disembodied screaming zombie heads, metal-armoured walkers (as conceived by turncoat Eugene for Negan’s use) and also the handsome fella pictured above with the grotesque disfigurements and burns all down his left side.
Nowadays, The Walking Dead has evolved past the simple threat of “aargh! zombies are gonna eat us,” but the whole zombie apocalypse angle is still the big draw of the show, so it’s great to see that make-up and prosthetics master Greg Nicoreto and his team aren’t resting on their laurels, even eight seasons in.