7 things I want to see from Tales Of The Walking Dead
By Liam O'Leary
2) “The True Story Of Brian Heriot”
In season four of The Walking Dead, we watched the “death” and redemption and actual death of The Governor, the series first true recurring villain. During that redemption, The Governor sought to give himself a new identity (Hence the “death” I mentioned earlier), and, he found one on the side of a barn, in the form of messages written out to a man by the name of Brian Heriot.
Who was this man? Who was writing messages to him? Where was this home his loved ones were warning him not to return to? Was he still alive? Did he ever reunite with whomever was leaving messages for him?
What I want Tales Of The Walking Dead to do is answer these questions in what I’m calling “The True Story Of Brian Heriot”.
This would be a series of episodes where we follow this mysterious man’s journey from wherever he was when the messages were first being written for him, to either his untimely demise, or, reuniting with whomever his messenger was.
What’s so great about this is that there’s so many directions you can take it. If Gimple wanted to, he could make this a tragic story about a man who had someone out there in the apocalypse waiting for him, whom he never returns to (You could even have him find the shed in the last scene of his story, just before he turns into a biter due to an injury). Conversely, his story could be a triumphant one, where, after going through an odyssey across Georgia, he finally locates his family or his friends, or whomever it was that was trying to communicate with him. If they wanted, the producers could even have Brian Heriot’s identity be some kind of secret, where the final scene reveals him to be some character we met at some other point in the Walking Dead universe, and this is his backstory. Like I said: Lots of directions you can go with this.
Whatever direction the show goes in, I feel like this story would be a great little addition to the universe at large, as it would give us a window into the story of man who we only got to see through the eyes (Or eye, in The Governor’s case…) of everyone but him.