nbc news We’ve got a few cliffhangers from The Walking Dead midseason finale, like who will survive in the herd-overrun Alexandria, and whether there will be enough left of the town itself to rebuild into the
community Deanna so desperately wanted it to become. Oh, but Deanna… sadly, there’s no cliffhanger there. She died a heroine’s death, using the bullets she was saving to keep herself from turning into a walker to instead take out a few of them to make things a tiny bit easier for Rick and the others who are left (again,
so far) to carry on. There was also that big promise of the impending arrival of
TWD comic book bad boy Negan, the villainous Rick rival who will be played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan and introduced sometime during the second half of Season 6.
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The good news: The Walking Dead showrunner Scott Gimple tells Yahoo TV the Negan we’ll meet on TV will be very recognizable to the character comic book fans know, and the other
TWD characters should fear. “There is no reinvention of Negan going on for the show,” says Gimple, who also talked about the evolution of Carl, the badass-ery of Deanna, and the Morgan/Carol showdown, and provided lots of hints about what to expect when the series returns on Valentine’s Day.
Let’s start with Carl. He really stood out in this episode. He is really emerging as this character with the toughness and savvy of Rick, but less hot-headed than Rick. He elects not to kill Ron, when he absolutely would’ve been justified to after what Ron did. He also didn’t add to Rick’s stress by telling him about Ron, he dealt with it himself. And he had the best line of the night when he said to Ron, “You need to know something… your dad was an a–hole.” Did you see this, also, as a big episode for Carl, and is this the Carl we’re going to continue to see?
Absolutely, absolutely. I’m thrilled that you got that out of the episode. We see Carl managing a more adult situation when it comes to Ron. There’s stuff with Enid, there’s stuff with Ron’s father, Pete, and what went down between Pete and Carl’s father… Carl’s doing a good job managing that, where he knows he’s so far ahead of Ron, and he’s being understanding to Ron, but he’s not being so understanding that Ron can pull a gun on him. We’re seeing a big evolution in Carl. There’s a lot more to come.
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We also, of course, got the big Morgan/Carol showdown. There are no two characters who are more beloved and respected than them, so it’s tough to see them butt heads. Is there a chance they can get to a point where they can agree to disagree, if nothing else?
Hmm. They’re nowhere close to that point right now, obviously. Things couldn’t be more intense between them. They’re diametrically opposed. It is interesting that Morgan just wanted to talk about it. He didn’t want to kill [the Wolf]. There was no rush to kill that guy, considering the situation that they were in. Carol felt she couldn’t wait another moment with that person still alive. And yet, she didn’t just shoot Morgan. There’s a bit of a parallel going on there. Things are very complicated between the two of them, but they seem to have some things in common.
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