But what about the man responsible for all the misery?
No, not Siddiq!
Rather, were talking aboutshowrunner Scott M. Gimple.
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Why do this to the Grimes family?
What does this mean for Rick and the show moving forward?
And why depart so wildly from the comics, where Carl is alive and well?
Those arent the only questions we have.
What about Maggies decision to execute a prisoner?
And Eugenes decision to help Gabriel and Dr. Carson escape?
And will we ever see Alexandria again?
We asked Gimple all that and more.
Its just a critical piece of how the story evolves.
Its just the next episode, Dalton!
Its just the next episode where you have to wait to see some of the things youre talking about.
Ill give you that.
You pinned me down on that.
We have seen major stories from characters in the comic go to different characters on the television show.
Were committed to keep telling the story from the comic book.
Yes, its going to be different.
But, as usual, we do plan on telling those comic stories.
It just will have to be with different people and its a different way to tell those same stories.
But we hope to still fulfill what those stories do.
Thats harder to replicate, right?
We havent seen it in the books yet.
What is this going to do to Rick?
We saw what happened after he lost his wife Lori?
This is a story that allows characters to say goodbye and to have a closing statement in some ways.
Lets talk about Maggies decision to straight up execute one of her Savior prisoners in cold blood.
The majority is trying to take care of her people and be a good leader.
They want an example to be made of the place in that they keep producing for the Saviors.
Their supplies are a little low considering everything that just happened.
But having them under Negans thumb has great use for them as well.
That got ported over to Eugene a little bit.
Will Alexandria be rebuilt as in the comics?
We saw it get the crap bombed out of it.I shant tell you that.
But it did indeed get the crap bombed out of it.
And I couldnt be there that night which bummed me out so much.
There are certain aspects of it that we wanted those buildings to be very recognizable.
So it was crazy to have that finally pan out.
There are things just beyond that.
The next eight are about who he is going to be.
For moreWalking Deadscoop, follow Dalton on Twitter@DaltonRoss.The Walking Deadreturns in February on AMC.
