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Yet another online petition has begun making the rounds on ye olde internet. What’s the goal this time, you might ask? To get voice over artist and actor D.C. Douglas the voice of villain Albert Wesker in the Resident Evil videogame franchise, on an episode of AMC’s hit zombie series The Walking Dead. Though Douglas is most recognized for his voice work in games like Mass Effect 2 & 3 and Star Wars: The Old Republic, but has also appeared in Castle, NCIS: Los Angeles, and 2 Broke Girls, among dozens of acting credits.

The push to get Douglas on AMC’s undead drama began when a fan realized Douglas wouldn’t be in the sixth installment of Resident Evil games. Nathan Narain decided that, “if he had to miss out on Douglas’ voice in a zombie video game, then he would at least try to see him on a TV show about zombies.”

Douglas says:

It started as a simple question on Twitter…Nathan asked if I had ever been on ‘The Walking Dead’ and I told him I haven’t. When he enthusiastically said I should be on the show, I joked back that I’d sign a petition like that. Next thing I knew, there was an actual petition!

Successful or not, this sort of grassroots movement can be a lot of fun, like the push to get Donald Glover (Community) to play Spider-Man in The Amazing Spider-Man. Maybe executive producer Glen Mazarra and the Bialy/Thomas casting agency can be swayed by the voice of the fans all yelling in unison, so to speak. Sign the petition here

If you saw the season finale of The Walking Dead this past weekend, or even any of the episodes right before it, you know the show ended in a total bloodbath. The walkers have been very well fed but, showrunner Robert Kirkman says they almost ended even more of the cast.

Read no further if you haven’t seen the season finale yet. You’ve been warned…

Despite its many faults, the season finale of AMC’s zombie drama managed to crush in ratings, taking the top spot for Sunday night with a staggering (see what I did there) 9 million viewers, making it the series’ highest rated episode to date. According to our sister site, Cinema Blend, that’s a 51% increase in viewership when compared to the season one finale. Huge.

It would seem that I’m the only one who wasn’t really feeling The Walking Dead this season. The popularity of the show continues to rise. Likely many hung on until the end hopeful that we’d get one big finale that would hook us into the next season.

Major spoilers follow! You have been warned.

Season two of The Walking Dead ends with an explosion, but that’s mostly from fans of the graphic novel who likely lost their minds when we finally got a glimpse of the prison, or maybe it was the hooded figure that gave you chills. We knew it was coming, and now we’re ready to see what happens when The Governor makes his entrance onto the show. But that’s for next season, right now we have to deal with an episode that was chock full of surprising and incredible moments.