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The Walking Dead Thread!
CellarDweller:
and as we get closer to the finale, the rumors swirl around with who is the character that is going to die.
Rick and Carl are safe.....there is no way the show would kill off either character.
Michonne? Whenever Rick has love, that love is taken. Lori died in childbirth, Jesse and her two sons just died in the walker attack, and now Michonne is linked with him romantically. That puts her as a target.
Glenn? Glenn is the character that dies at the hands of Negan and his bat. The show often follows the story line of the comics, but deviates from it just as frequently. It's possible it's not his death.
Abraham, Aaron, Fr. Gabriel or Eugene? Aaron hasn't been around long enough for fans to be affected by his death. Fr. Gabriel and Eugene both have overcome cowardice in recent episodes, redeeming themselves from past failures. It's not unusual for a character to be killed off after getting that redemption. Abraham just broke it off with his girlfriend, in a sloppy way, and his death would be seen as karma by fans.
Daryl? Daryl has not had as much screen/story time as usual, and since his character is not in the comic at all, he has no "death" to match up to, and it's possible that writers will give him Glenn's death.
Carol? At one point last year, one of the screen writers said that Carol was invincible because so many people loved her story line. Now that her arc is complete, and her softer side is showing again, it's leading some to believe that Negan will kill Carol.
Andrew Lincoln said that the ending is very dark, and he was very upset by it. The show has had women and children dying, but one thing it hasn't had is the murder of a pregnant woman. This is a very dark ending, and leading many to suspect that Maggie will die at the hands of Negan.
Kelda:
Sniff to the doctor's end this episode :(
CellarDweller:
I want to see what is gonna happen to Carol. I'm hoping they sent her off so that she's safe from Negan.
serious crayons:
I finally caught up. Yikes! :o :o :o
The recapper on Vulture thinks Glenn is the most likely. It won't be Daryl because, he said, "there would be real-life rioting in the streets." It won't be a relatively minor character like Aaron or Rosita. He doesn't think it's Michonne because Rick had his previous girlfriend die too recently. He had some reason for excluding Rick and Carl.
Other possibilities, IMO: Maggie, Abraham, Eugene.
It's possible Carol and Morgan could save the group. They've both wrestled morally with killing, and they'd have to do a lot of killing, so that might make for interesting internal conflict. However, Carol has already rescued the group once before (albeit singlehandedly), and you wouldn't think they'd repeat that pattern.
The show could live without any of those: Glenn, Maggie, Abraham, Eugene. I don't think it could go on without Rick. I think Carl needs to be there to represent the next generation. Michonne and Daryl are such cool characters, they'd be too big a loss. Until recently I'd have said the same about Carol, but I think you're right that it's possible her moral qualms signal an end to her character arc.
CellarDweller:
Yeah, it was quite the episode, and I'm still not sure who got it.
I don't think the group is going to get 'resuced'....I think Neagan will let them go. He specificially stated he was only going to kill one of them. Morgan and Carol are going to be at the next "group" from the comics, a group called The Kingdom.
I keep thinking on how the cast keeps calling it a "dark" episode, and one of the darkest things that could be done is kill a pregnant woman.
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