Tales of The Walking Dead, Amy/Dr. Everett: Things To Note
By Liam O'Leary
Tales of the Walking Dead episode 4
7) Dr. Everett is portrayed by Anthony Edwards, who may be most famous for playing a doctor in the living world in the famous medical series “ER” from 1994 to 2008.
8) In a great display of how detached he has become from humanity, not long after saying that “There’s no right or wrong. There’s just the excruciating process of life.” as he filmed a herd mauling a horse, he condemns the practice of collecting walker heads as “vile and barbaric”, as if they were elephants being poached, as opposed to roving human corpses being decapitated.
9) The title theme for this week sounds rather distorted compared to earlier episodes and features a human skull with a snake slithering through its sockets, with handwritten text (Likely Everett’s notes) on the right-hand side, along with stacks of thick books.
10) Amy calls the dead “chompers”, the fifth name for walkers in Tales of The Walking Dead and the third in this episode.
11) That said, Amy’s name for the dead is the first one in Tales of TWD that is not unique to the series, as the name “chompers” was also used by Dakota in season six of Fear The Walking Dead.
12) Listening to his description of Specimen 21/Dr. Moseley abandoning food, it sounds like Dr. Everett thinks the dead are capable of some level of conscious decision making, which is not that different than Hershel Greene thinking the walkers weren’t dead back in season two of The Walking Dead. Perhaps there’s something about the medical profession that inclines people to this way of thinking about the walkers.