The Walking Dead left viewers on one mother of a cliffhanger at the end of Season 6 when Negan murdered one of our beloved characters with the barbed-wire bat named Lucille without actually showing us who he was bashing in.
Some fans have spent the summer trying to deduce whose head was turned to pulp in those final moments while others have spent the summer lamenting the fact that the show has sacrificed good storytelling for gimmicks.
The trailer for the seventh season dropped at Comic-Con on Friday and while we did learn a lot about what’s to come, we did not learn that one thing the show so desperately wants us to wonder about.
The people making the trailer know what they’re doing as pretty much all of the characters in the circle awaiting their potential fate are absent from the footage outside of that perilous scene. Try as you might to find clues hidden in there but if there’s anything the people behind TWD care about it, it’s protecting that reveal (and not, say, writing really good dialogue).
But we digress.
While the show diverges from the source material often, they do seem to be continuing down the general path that the graphic novel has laid out for it. The seventh season will introduce us to the rest of Negan’s camp, which includes Dwight and his half-burned face. We’ll also get to know the nefarious Negan much better, which seems like a good thing as he might just be the most interesting and captivating character the show will ever have. Not to mention a fantastic foil for Rick.
We’ll also be introduced to The Kingdom, a community led by King Ezekiel (Khary Payton). You may have also noticed that Ezekiel has a pet tiger named Shiva. So that’s new.
We’ll also return to the Hilltop Colony where Gregory (Xander Berkeley) and Jesus (Tom Payne) have been upgraded to series regulars. Graphic novel readers will know that the fate of these three communities (and their inhabitants) are bound to be intertwined and our group of survivors will be right in the middle of it.
Now, we wait until The Walking Dead returns on Sunday, October 23 when we’ll finally find out who Negan kills and what happens next. Or maybe they’ll drag it out for a couple episodes. That would totally be within the show’s modus operandi.
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