SPOILER ALERT: Read on only if you have already watched Sundays Bounty episode ofThe Walking Dead.
We asked showrunner Angela Kang that and so much more about Sundays Bounty episode.
Whats up with the Whisperers being baby killers?
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How about staging that soundless sequence with Connie?
Why bring Jesus back from the dead for a flashback?
And how about that fun and funky storyline with the Kingdomers heading to the movies?
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Read through both pages of the interview as Kang shares insight and intel into all that and more.
We just thought: What was the genesis of how Tara got to where shes at?
What was Jesus role in all this?
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What were they all doing?
So, who got to write the actual charter?Actually, it was our writers assistant James Fant.
He totally researched it and then wrote it and that is the trigger that you see screen.
First off, a pretty big tonal shift with this story from what were used to.
A lot of humor at play.
They have an acapella choir at the Kingdom.
But theres a reason why entertainment moves people.
Thats the thing that all of our people are grappling with.
Its the importance of community.
How do we draw together?
What are the things that draw us together?
Or the things that draw the next generation together?
But its also the thing that I think makes the episode unique and memorable.
What can you say about that because that camera sure did linger?Why, yes it did!
It does play into the season story is what Ill say.
There will be no conflict.
Your people killed our people, there will be no conflict.
Bring me my daughter or therewillbe conflict.
Shes certainly trying to present it that way.
She is the hero in her own story.
So, to her, this all seems reasonable.
This event is a key event for the Whisperers.
Like Lydia said in the previous episode, My mums not coming for me.
They dont do that, they leave people behind and she wasnt lying.
Well find out that this event have a lot of different fall out in consequences going forward.
Because Alpha certainly does have this personal tie to her daughter.
Which is what I think is really interesting and was interesting about the story in the comics as well.
So lets get into the baby thing.
One of the Whisperers has a baby.
Like, how do they handle children?
What do they do if somebody is hurt?
Otherwise, its all over.
What happens when a baby cries?
Its just gonna bring the zombies.
Like, Well, you know what to do.
Theres such a casualness to it that I think is so crazy, that I love so much.
But I think that thats right.
You just have to do what you have to do so that the group continues to survive.
Its definitely one of the more memorable moments that stands out in my mind.
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NEXT PAGE: Why does Lydia decide to go back to Alpha and whats coming up next?
Where did that idea come from to do that?
ANGELA KANG:
We knew that we wanted to do something more with Connie.
I think Lauren Ridloff, who plays the character, shes just such a brilliant actress.
What is her life like?
So, it really came out of that.
Its an important thing to know about her character, is that character is like a crusader.
I think that thats just our best way of capturing the feeling of it.
Who knows what it actually sounds like in a deaf persons head?
Its more like we wanted to get the emotional sense of it as it played.
In that same year, I also lost my grandfather who lived with us.
Matt wrote that scene really beautifully.
Its not fresh anymore but its always on her mind.
So, thats really how we came to it.
It felt like, for that character, its something that she definitely thinks about.
When Lydia comes out and tells Henry that she wants to go, she says Shes my mother.
I dont even know if the character knows.
One of the things weve been exploring with her is that shes an abused child.
Theres so much complicated emotion that comes with that.
So in that moment, maybe its the truth, maybe shes just trying to make him feel better.
Maybe its all of it.
So Henry, Daryl, and Connie all leave to presumably go find Lydia.
We will also get to meet another iconic character.
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