SPOILER ALERT: Read on only if you have already watched Sundays midseason premiere ofThe Walking Dead, Honor.
Its a way of honoring the moment while also keeping things fresh and giving viewers an entirely new experience.
(Read what stars Chandler Riggs and Andrew Lincoln had to say about the episodehereandhere.)
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I just wanted to play that out further.
and you found that way through Carl?
Or it was more like Heres the Carl story I want to tell.
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Whats a way to tell it?
Oh, I could use this time jump from the book?
What was the starting point for these two things converging?It was very much the latter.
But it very much was about Carls story first.
It sprung from Carls story.
Those visions very much have to do with the young man that we see interact with Siddiq initially.
And what he wants.
We see those visions play out very much as the Siddiq story plays out.
With the red-eyed Rick, that is still playing out.
I was there for the church scene, and it was so heartbreaking and yet so beautiful.
But the intercutting which was built within the script it was just a question of contrast.
All the horrible stuff, and then into the dream of what the world could be.
He says, I grew up.
He has to do that.
Its so tragic, and yet hes grown up.
We know the whole speech that Carl gives Rick is going to play a big part moving forward.
Weve spoken about that.
And Rick says to Carl at the end how hes going to make it real.
But what is the immediate effect of this event?
But what Carl says to him, he says to Michonne too.
I mean it weighs upon them in every scene moving forward this season.
So they may not be in the same place, they may not come away with the same messages.
Is it wrong that Im kind of sad about losing Gavin?
I always found him oddly amusing and endearing in a grumpy sort of way.I was too.
I loved writing for Gavin and I always loved what [Jayson Warner Smith] did with it.
So no, Im thrilled to hear that youre going to miss him.
This guy and these people forfeit the right to live.
And then he sees Henry do this.
Does it challenge him or does it enthuse him?
Would he have been happy to see Duane do something like that?
And potentially save his life, or save somebody elses life?
Its complicated because I know that part of Morgan is thrilled and part of Morgan is horrified.
What can you say about that last shot where Rick appears to have a wound in his right side.
Theyre very different stories and it has a great deal of variety to it.
We really get into a lot of different characters within them.
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