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'The Walking Dead' series finale burning questions answered - Entertainment Weekly News

'The Walking Dead' series finale burning questions answered - Entertainment Weekly News

'The Walking Dead' series finale burning questions answered - Entertainment Weekly News
Nov 21, 2022 3 mins, 51 secs

Big questions like: Why Did Ezekiel end up leading the Commonwealth?

When I made my rounds with the actors to talk to them about the final block of episodes, she expressed that she felt like the right thing for her character, and something that would be really good for the finale, was if her character died in trying to save Coco and in trying to make sure that the next generation had a shot in life.

GREG NICOTERO: Christian came to me about six to eight months before we did that episode and said, "I want something really great for Rosita." She's like, "I want that character to go out strong." She said, "I think I might want to die, but if I die, I want to do something heroic.

KANG: We felt that there were some aspects of it that felt like we could pull from the Andrea idea in the comic — just the idea that there was a really important member of the cast doesn't make it, but that there is a chance for there to be a bit of a goodbye that felt like it was honoring the emotional intent of the comic as well as kind of fulfilling something that Christian said that she felt was important for her journey.

But as we were working on the story, having a sad death kind of early, it felt like it gave a lot of stakes to everything else that they were doing because Daryl is kind of looking at this death and going, "This could happen to Judith if we're not careful." And for that group of friends around Luke, it kind of hardens their resolve to help the situation so that they can all get out of there.

And at the end of the day, we settled on Ezekiel because it felt like Ezekiel is inherently a leader, and he has survived so much.

It felt like Ezekiel kind of went on a journey where he wanted to not do that anymore, but it really felt like he's somebody that at the end of the day is always going to find himself trying to help other people.

And that felt like the right kind of leader to go forward.

And I like that Ezekiel and Mercer, who were at such odds when they started, actually kind of wound up working together.

Because he's been a military guy, so I think he actually probably had to be pushed to even run to be the lieutenant governor.

I think he's like, "I don't think that's my path, man.

It's just he's going to go off on a mission, and she has a different mission right now.

KANG: After that nod to Daryl, he's just focused on the present.

I'm going to go see Annie, and I'm going to leave these people to what they've got to do." And I think the thing that he took from that conversation with Maggie is, "She's extending grace to me and my wife, even though she is literally saying that it pains her to no end every time she sees me." And the way that Negan has grown is by realizing that to walk into that house where they're all having a meal together is actually not kind to Maggie.

It's not like he's moping about it.

He's just like, "The right thing for me to do right now is to walk away and give her the space that she needs." So I think that was really what was behind him going off.

Because obviously an alternate version of it would be, he's in there with them, and it's all one happy family.

I keep trying to remind everybody, they weren't smarter zombies back then, it's just Frank Darabont and I hadn't really figured out the rules yet.

That was a very raw version that we really had worked on very hard, but we ended up pulling it up because it just felt like there needed to be a big turn in that part of the story.

And also, I think AMC was actually like, "What do you think about killing Sebastian earlier?" And we're like, "Maybe." So we worked on the story.

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