>>213777084Unironically true. After Darabont was fired.
I just rewatched S1E1, then I watched a random episode from season 11, holy shit, the tone, everything, it was so much fucking better in S1E1. That pilot episode just hits completely different. If they had kept that quality, ran for only like 5 or 6 seasons (no more), it would have been the best show to come out of the 2010s.
Darabont knew when to deviate from the comics to make the show better, such as giving us Daryl or making the zombies move faster. Too bad they forgot that pretty quickly. I fucking hate jews.