Chapter 783: The Walking Dead

The launch time of The Walking Dead was at midnight US time; watching films at night had more atmosphere.

Of course, this was a horror film, and it would have more stimulation in the quiet night.

And it was noon in China.

However, because it was broadcast on Netflix, most people couldn't see it.

As for the tools to climb over the wall, not everyone had them, so they had to honestly wait for the Chinese translation group.

However, because it was the drama with the highest attention at present, many Chinese translation groups were staring at this piece of fat meat.

It was estimated that it would be broadcast at midnight, and the translation would be done in one or two o'clock, and it could be made into a seed and spread all over the world that day.

So domestic audiences should be patient, and they wouldn't wait too long.

And when Luo Quan was livestreaming, the fans also tacitly didn't ask related topics.

Because this was a TV series she invested in and produced, it was indeed a bit dishonest to ask her for piracy.

Luo Quan herself also knew that piracy would be spread sooner or later, but the general environment was like this, so she couldn't say anything, and it was useless to say it.

With the official launch of The Walking Dead, Netflix's webpage and mobile app both appeared with varying degrees of lag.

This was a phenomenon caused by a large number of users pouring in at the same time, leading to server overload.

Fortunately, it didn't last too long, just a few seconds.

These pouring users were almost all coming for The Walking Dead, and all operations pointed to one destination.

After clicking to play the video, these users pulled the curtains in the room, ate popcorn and potato chips while watching the TV series.

The beginning of The Walking Dead was about the same as the first half of the content in the trailer.

It was about the defeat of the army and what happened after the nuclear peace of Raccoon City.

The United States was infected by the zombie virus, the people died in large numbers and became zombies, and humanity encountered a devastating disaster; how to survive?

This big problem was concentrated in a short and wonderful opening.

All the plots were also slowly unfolded through this opening.

The lens turned and came to a hospital with a mess inside.

The protagonist of this drama, Rick, was a sheriff in a small town in Georgia.

Previously, he was shot and fainted while on a mission with his colleague Shane; when he woke up again, he found everything became strange.

The hospital's instruments had stopped running, and the flowers placed by the bed had withered.

When he struggled to wake up from the bed, he found that the corridor was a mess, and it was covered with blood and bullet marks.

It was as if a bloody battle had broken out in this hospital.

People had disappeared, but at the end of the corridor, he heard some movements.

Rick leaned over to look, and the room was locked with a large iron chain, and there were words like "Don't open the door, zombies inside" on it.

A chill rose from the bottom of Rick's heart, especially after hearing the unknown movement coming from inside.

Rick didn't dare to stay long and ran to the street in a hurry.

But soon he encountered zombies.

In his view, that was a walking corpse, covered with hideous wounds, emitting a rotting smell.

Although Rick was a policeman, he had never seen this scene at all, so he fled immediately.

On the way, he was saved by a Black father and son hiding in a building and was told that the United States had been captured by zombies…………

On the first day of launch, The Walking Dead only updated two episodes.

But less than three hours after launch, the playback volume of the first episode exceeded 4 million, and the playback volume of the second episode was as high as 3.7 million.

This meant that the retention rate exceeded 90%; for a TV series, this data was quite excellent.

Of course, the popularity of The Walking Dead didn't exceed everyone's expectations.

Because Resident Evil had two pearls in front, and it had a large number of loyal zombie fans around the world.

And Luo Quan said that there would be no new films in a short time, so they could only come to watch this TV series.

And just right, the quality of the TV series was surprisingly high, so it was not strange to have this data.

Rotten Tomatoes' score also came out, with a freshness of 93%, which belonged to the first-tier TV series this year.

The tweets on Twitter were also more than 200,000, and they were still increasing rapidly. 【783-4

Excited netizens evaluated it like this:

"I originally thought The Walking Dead was a continuation of Resident Evil, but after finishing these two episodes, I realized I was wrong.

These are two completely different works; aside from the basic settings being similar, everything else is quite different.

The protagonist of The Walking Dead is weaker and has almost no other options besides running when facing a large group of zombies.

But this is exactly the normal situation for ordinary people facing a zombie horde; no one can be like Alice, dual-wielding Desert Eagles and slaughtering everything in sight.

There is no sense of detachment like in sci-fi movies; I gained a more realistic sense of immersion from The Walking Dead, and the viewing experience is far more thrilling than Resident Evil!"

"The entry point of this show is too brilliant. Besides the necessary element of zombies, this series is also filled with human nature!

There are two things in the world that cannot be stared at directly: one is the sun, and the other is the human heart.

In the apocalypse, everyone has their own little schemes, and everyone wants to fight for their own interests.

But it is also in this environment that the collective spirit of the protagonist Rick appears so precious.

Besides that, the performance of the Black father who saved the protagonist in the first episode also brought me to tears.

Especially the conflicted look on his face when he saw his wife had turned into a zombie, raising his gun to aim but being unable to pull the trigger—it was truly heart-wrenching.

I couldn't help but ponder: if the zombie apocalypse really arrived and our loved ones unfortunately turned into zombies, could we harden our hearts to end their lives, which are like those of the walking dead?

This is a very difficult question to answer, and I think it is also a major point of conflict in this series.

I am already too expectant for the upcoming content; if I could, I would even want to pay one hundred dollars to watch all the remaining episodes at once!"

………………

Similar positive reviews are everywhere on major foreign forums.

The Walking Dead's rating on Netflix is 9.6, higher than 99.9% of thriller and horror films and series, and the view count is already heading toward ten million, which is expected to be achieved in less than twelve hours.

Following this momentum, breaking fifty million views for a single episode is not a difficult task.

If it can break one hundred million, then it will be Netflix's hottest series.

And in order to achieve this effect, Netflix has also begun to purchase media coverage on a large scale, starting marketing on a global level.

A hit work is just like this: thirty percent depends on quality, seventy percent depends on hype.

Even good wine fears a deep alley; if you don't let others know, how can you attract people to watch?

Therefore, frequent purchasing of traffic is the only way to create a blockbuster, even though this kind of viral marketing will cause resentment in many people.

But as long as people see it and are left with an impression, that is equivalent to half the success.

Under Netflix's all-out marketing, The Walking Dead soon became popular in China.

In addition to media reporting on the amazing results it achieved abroad, countless short-video marketing accounts are also playing clips of it.

Actually, although zombies are popular, they are not a big circle worldwide; their popularity is not on the same level as superheroes.

But this kind of novel horror character is indeed quite charming; that appearance, which is extremely similar to humans, always manages to trigger panic in the depths of the audience's hearts as soon as it appears.

So after these short videos were broadcast, a group of people were both scared and curious, asking one after another which series the clips were from.

Then, netizens in the comment section who knew would answer: "This is Netflix's new show, The Walking Dead!"

Popularity comes this way, relying on video after video, news item after news item, and comment after comment.

When it accumulates to a certain point, the explosion becomes inevitable.

And the reason for The Walking Dead's explosion in China is even simpler, because the pirated "cooked meat" (subtitled version) finally came out, and the resources spread rapidly across major platforms.

It is mainly in the form of network drives or Thunder torrents.

Of course, most resources are also in this format.

In addition to this, various short-video platforms have also produced many five-to-ten-minute "quick look" commentaries of the show.

This is actually a very popular way of watching shows in this fast-paced era.

A single episode of a series often lasts more than forty minutes, and some in Europe and America are even as long as an hour.

How could working people have so much time to finish watching them?

And this kind of commentary that finishes an episode in a few minutes is very popular.

As long as you find a commentator with no strong accent and a moderate speaking speed, it is quite comfortable; if the voice is even better and the commentary is more interesting, it is easy to break one million followers.

These content creators have the financial strength, so naturally, they watched the genuine version of The Walking Dead at the first opportunity, then recorded commentary videos and posted them domestically.

Actually, strictly speaking, this kind of behavior is also a form of infringement.

However, the country has not been particularly strict in this regard.

Previously, several domestic video websites had sued this kind of behavior, which indeed made commentaries of domestic dramas disappear.

Then the content creators started changing their commentaries to rants, spraying wildly at those trashy dramas, and the video view counts remained quite high.

As for foreign dramas, since foreign websites can't sue them here anyway, there isn't that much concern.

The uploading of these commentary videos caused the popularity of The Walking Dead in China to experience a blowout increase.

When Luo Quan was livestreaming the next day, it was all fans asking her to talk about the subsequent plot direction.

"Would I do something like spoiling the plot? Don't you guys know how tight-lipped I, Luo Quan, am?"

As the producer of The Walking Dead, how could she possibly do such a thing as backstabbing Netflix?

If she spoiled it, the performance of the subsequent episodes would likely be significantly affected; she wouldn't do such a self-destructive, stupid thing just for the sake of livestreaming effects.

"I can only say the series is very good, and now it's popular; if you guys like watching it, then keep following it, and promote it more.

That way, when we can film the second season, we can also increase the investment, and the actors will also be more proactive and enthusiastic."

The bullet comments were somewhat helpless:

"What you said is equivalent to saying nothing."

"Can you really not reveal anything? I just want to know if Rick will find out about him being cheated on."

"It's quite ridiculous, a zombie series turned into a love triangle."

"Actually, it's fine; it's precisely because of the emotional entanglements in this kind of environment that it has more to watch."

"That Daryl guy is a bit cool; is his combat power strong?"

"Will the movie's protagonist group appear? Will there be a plot with the series' protagonists?"

"I just want to know when the Alice you played will come out."

………………

Facing the fans' persistent questioning, Luo Quan crossed her hands and made a "no" gesture:

"Sorry, no comment; don't count on getting a single bit of news from me."

After saying this, she still felt like laughing inside.

The Walking Dead was filmed in the United States; she had barely stayed abroad for long this year.

You're asking if my Alice can appear in The Walking Dead?

That will have to wait until at least the second season.

As for the protagonist group in the movie, they are basically just flashes in the pan and won't have too much plot.

After all, this is a TV series.

Under such tight protection, the fans were unable to extract a single piece of useful information from Luo Quan.

And not only were domestic fans disappointed, but foreign fans were also feeling extremely uncomfortable.

And with the continued global popularity of The Walking Dead, the zombie craze that had been extinguished for half a year burned up again.

When Resident Evil first came out last year, a zombie craze swept the whole world.

The whole world was filming zombie movies and TV series, and the protagonist would inevitably be a blonde action heroine dressed in revealing clothes—that is, a pirated Alice.

Unfortunately, these unoriginal films and series didn't make any money.

The most vivid contrast is when Marvel movies were popular, the market saw all kinds of funny pseudo-superhero movies, finding a group of unknown actors to film a pile of epic trash movies under the support of five-cent special effects.

Representative works among them include Thor, Iron Man, Pacific Rim, Sharknado, etc.

They are all the kind of trashy enough to be remembered in film history.

Resident Evil also had the honor of receiving this treatment.

And the large amount of inferior products in the market also caused the popularity of zombies to drop much faster than expected.

Later, people realized that it still had to be Luo Quan filming it to have that flavor.

The rest of the copycat works were completely not on the same level.

Although The Walking Dead wasn't filmed by Luo Quan, the script came from her hand, and she had also told the director in detail how to film it, so there were no major problems in terms of flavor.

Therefore, the resurgence of the zombie craze was only natural.

However, unlike in the past, Luo Quan did not let the great traffic go to waste.

Taking advantage of the global zombie craze brought about by The Walking Dead, the Resident Evil game released its trailer.

This was the game she had mentioned during her livestream that was about to be released.

Blizzard Studio had been developing it for over half a year; although the volume was a bit small, the quality was absolutely not inferior to Final Fantasy.

Among them, the character modeling still dealt a dimensionality-reduction blow to most current 3A games.

Several female characters like Alice, Jill, and Claire were even more beautiful than the sky.

A group of gaming perverts couldn't wait to install mods for these beautiful female characters.

In an era where political correctness is rampant, Western games haven't had such beautiful female protagonists for a long, long time.

Tifa from Final Fantasy was the beginning, and this time Resident Evil is a further major upgrade!