The Walking Dead: Robert Kirkman Talks Mid-Season Finale And Beyond
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This is a great deal of turmoil to deal with moving forward, and all of what went down in “Too Far Gone” will echo through the remainder of the season, and well into the future of the show. Kirkman says that what’s to come will follow a similar path as what we’ve experiences thus far in season four, where the storylines loosely follow the comics, but continue to throw in new twists and wrinkles. About the February return of The Walking Dead, he says:
The show always veers away from the comics and veers back, but we’ve now hit a point where it’s veering back on for a time. There’s going to be a lot of cool stuff coming up that’s taken directly from the comics. Everyone is already aware of the fact that characters like Abraham, Rosita and Eugene are going to be introduced real soon. People who’ve read the comics know they get introduced shortly after the fall of the prison, so you can assume there are some elements of that that’s going to be brought in. We always like to keep people guessing. While there will be quite a bit of scenes that are adapted directly from the comics, which I’m very excited about, we are still going to be changing things and keeping people guessing and adding a lot of new elements in the story as well.
From the sound of this, we’ll be meeting the new additions to the crew sooner rather than later, which is okay from where we sit. Anything they can do to keep the story and momentum moving will only benefit the show. Fans of the comics are already familiar with the three characters Kirkman mentions, but it remains to be seen how close they remain to their previous incarnations. We’ve seen characters come in before, and be wildly different from who we knew. Kirkman says:
It’s always cool for me when big characters from the comics are brought in. We’re always introducing new people, but when characters from the comics I’m familiar with and in some cases haven’t gotten to write in a while because they’ve already died in the comics, it’s always fun to go back home and spend some time on these characters again.
We assumed, and it sounds like, Abraham, Rosita, and Eugene will still all appear as part of a package deal. What a lot of us are curious about is another new face named Gareth, to be played by Andrew J. West. He’s supposedly a remix of a character or characters from the comics, and that’s all we know about him, whatever that even means. Will he arrive with Abraham and his group, or will Rick’s crew meet up with him at a later date? For everything he said, Kirkman declined to shed any more light on this issue, saying only, “I can tell you nothing about him.”
The Walking Dead returns to take a bite out of your Sunday nights in February 2014.
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