The Complete Sixth Season will arrive on Blu-ray and DVD this August, while you can see the cover art right now. Again, those are ridiculous numbers – last week’s episode was easily the number one cable show on TV, and it was the lowest-rated episode of the season – until they’re compared to what The Walking Dead is used to. That trend held true for this weekend’s season six finale as the arrival of Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Negan was undercut by a repetitive, nonsensical and poorly structured episode that managed to inflame the entirety of the Internet. “In the next half season, the world is going to open up even more”.
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This story contains details from Sunday’s Season 6 finale of AMC’s The Walking Dead. The freedom is yours! The story of the episode, and Scott and Matt Negrete did such a great of setting up how confident Rick was going into this.
After being bombarded with a barrage of social media hate, The Walking Dead executive producer and show runner Scott M. Gimple has addressed the backlash. I understand the fans’ frustration, I get that. We’re going to have a wide variety of locales, tone and character.
Responding to the backlash over the scene, Gimple pleaded with fans for patience. How would The Walking Dead translate that gory sequence of panels from the comic (seen below) into a scene suitable for Sunday night cable? “That’s what I know and there’s not a whole lot beyond that”. “I know what 701 is, and I feel that it delivers on what 616 sets up”. I say the show would have been much better off revealing the victim, leaving us to mourn during the wait for Season 7.
He continued, “I think if you approach it from a place of skepticism or with the idea that there is some sort of negative motivation behind it or cynical motivation behind it – if you come at it that way it’s hard to convince you otherwise. We want you to feel that suspense and that terror and that pain, and were going to deliver you a story next season that justifies it”. “There are a couple of things in there that might help people possibly limit the amount of people who are vulnerable but I will say, I would recommend people not to go down that route”.
“Honestly, and this is going to sound ridiculous, but I thought it would have been a little cheap to kill a major character in the last few minutes of the show”.
It was coming for months and when both Andrew Lincoln (Rick) and Lauren Cohan (Maggie) spoke about their sickness and terror when they first read the scripts, we knew things were going to be brutal.
For all these years, “The Walking Dead” has succeeded in garnering praise for its action, story, plot, character development and all the aesthetics that a show needs to stay on top of its game.
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Season seven of The Walking Dead is rumoured to return to screens in October.
