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11 Penn Plaza, New York, United States.
Mr Darabont:
Im writing this letter as a form of praise to your show ''The Walking Dead'', because I really liked something about it, you were not afraid of making use of the stereotypes to describe your character's qualities, as well as I liked the evolution on these stereotypes in order to make them each time more worthless, for example in the first two seasons of the show, women were portrayed always as the ''weak'' members of the group, and the ones who used to cause all the problems, sort of useless, as well as most women were on roles like mothers, or persons who needed to be protected, while men were the protectors and the strong ones, I imagine you had quite a few complains about it coming from the feminine community.
The stereotypes then, (only in gender terms) were weak women who were in need of protection to survive as well as trouble-makers. But I'm not saying this as a complainant, but as a congratulation about what you did, I think, and in my opinion most people think, that the use of these stereotypes is completely necessary in order to make the show have a little more content than only killing zombies, I mean , they were necessary to make the theme get more sense, the evolution of the characters its what I think that's the most important thing, how (by themselves or with help) they get rid of the stereotypes that were put on them at the first chapters.
The other thing that I liked was the dominance of the male gender on the group, the obvious reason for this its that I'm a man and by nature we like being superior, but there was something that make this stereotype fell a little in order to make the show more realistic, that was the character ''Eugene'', the complete contradiction of all the characteristics portrayed as stereotypes on the men of the group, he is physically weak and he is not a zombie killer with a natural surviving instinct as the other characters, but a ''nerd'' who's afraid of almost everything, even though as well as the female's stereotypes, the character evolved in the last season to something more ''manly''.
The other thing about stereotypes I noticed, took me a little longer that identifying the others. The innocence as a death factor, I mean that the innocent people were more likely to die. I can relate that to a day-to-day situation in which innocent or shy people are bothered and taken advantage of because of their conditions ands characteristics, so as in the show the innocent ones have to leave this behind, I see sort of an educational or motivation purpose on doing this to influence the audience who may or not be on this situation.
