Walking Dead Showrunner Angela Kang Unpacks That 'Gut Punch' of a Twist - Yahoo Entertainment

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Warning: The pursuing contains spoilers for Sunday’s eventful occurrence of The Walking Dead. If you haven’t watched yet, you whitethorn privation to bash truthful earlier speechmaking on.

The word “a doozy” was each but coined to picture Sunday’s occurrence of The Walking Dead. As Pamela’s troopers led a swarm toward the Commonwealth, each truthful that she could spell done the motions of a lockdown, Aaron, Jerry and Lydia became separated from Elijah, Luke and Jules. Lydia tried truthful desperately not to fto spell of her fellow arsenic helium was swept distant by the horde that she coiled up being bitten. (Goodbye, arm!) Later, Jerry insisted that it would beryllium arsenic “easy arsenic cobbler” for him to spell find the missing members of their party. (Goodbye, Jerry?)

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In different developments, Pamela, beyond suspicious of Mercer successful the aftermath of Eugene’s “disappearance” from custody, had Max’s member arrested. At the aforesaid time, Daryl, Carol, Judith, Negan, Gabriel, Rosita, Maggie, Princess… Basically, astir of our regulars snuck into the Commonwealth bid station, wherever the politician had an ambush waiting for them. Pamela adjacent picked up a instrumentality weapon herself and took purpose astatine Maggie, lone to person Judith propulsion her retired of the mode and — gulp — take the slug herself!

As the hr neared its conclusion, walkers — immoderate climbers among them — made it wrong the walls of the Commonwealth. Pamela’s solution? Have troopers support the estates and divert the dormant toward the little wards. (As if we didn’t already cognize she was scum.) At the aforesaid time, Daryl & Co. recovered themselves each but surrounded by walkers. And Lil’ Ass-Kicker… In her delirium, she seemed to spot “Daddy.” But had she really? To get the reply that question and more, TVL rang up showrunner Angela Kang.

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| So, you indispensable cognize that radical are going to beryllium freaking out, right? You conscionable don’t sprout Judith Grimes.
Absolutely. This is not a communicative determination we took lightly. There were galore many conversations astir whether we bash it, what happens arsenic a result, however bash we represent it successful a mode that is arsenic respectful arsenic possible…

TVLINE | What is the crushed for doing it — to scare the hellhole retired of america oregon conscionable marque america hatred Pamela more?
In the comic book, determination is simply a storyline astir the things that the adjacent procreation goes done and sees. What is the satellite that their parents’ procreation wants to permission down for them? That is simply a large taxable that we went into the last tally reasoning about. So this communicative benignant of evolved retired of that. There’s a truly important affectional dynamic that rises retired of what happens adjacent for Judith and for Daryl. Even Pamela is like, “What person I done?” Because you know, you benignant of anticipation that erstwhile horrific things hap to children that radical tin instrumentality that measurement backmost and look astatine that, and I deliberation that’s 1 of the things we’re exploring with her.

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| What’s the value of Judith passing on to RJ the chapeau that utilized to beryllium Carl’s that utilized to beryllium Rick’s? Is that her graduation to the adjacent generation?
In immoderate ways, she is doing things that are truthful beyond her age. All of the children of this procreation person been forced to turn up faster than they should person to due to the fact that the satellite is truthful unsafe and successful immoderate ways doesn’t attraction that they are children who merit to beryllium protected. So for Judith, there’s this unspoken enactment that’s benignant of like, “Now you’re having to turn up a small spot too, RJ, but you’re inactive a child, and this chapeau is going to support you.” That’s conscionable thing that we truly wanted to grant arsenic portion of that Grimes legacy, that the chapeau means thing arsenic it passes from idiosyncratic to idiosyncratic and is benignant of protective.

TVLINE | Let’s speech astir “Daddy.” Are you hoping that we’ll deliberation that Judith wasn’t hallucinating and she truly did spot Rick
From Judith’s perspective, she conscionable benignant of went unconscious. She’s astir apt hallucinating a small bit, oregon astatine slightest precise confused and successful a benignant of dreamlike state. It felt existent to america arsenic we were penning it that what she imagines and what’s been connected her caput each this clip is simply a reunion with her parents. She feels harmless successful somebody’s arms for a moment, and she’s wondering if Daddy came back. But of people it’s Daryl, and the benignant of gut punch for him is significant… conscionable the value that’s connected him. [With Rick and Michonne gone, and Lori agelong gone], Daryl is the remaining genitor fig for this child. But we felt similar for Judith, too, it’s an denotation of wherever her head’s astatine passim each of this. She misses her family, but she besides trusts Daryl capable to consciousness that he’s similar a daddy fig to her.

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| Did Lydia really person to get bitten? The kid had Alpha for a mother, she spent years eating worms, her archetypal fellow was beheaded, and she just got a caller one. I mean, travel on.
She’s had a unsmooth run, but she’s trying to find anticipation successful the midst of that. She’s besides connecting with Aaron, who’s mislaid an limb successful this apocalypse. For Lydia, she’s going to person to fig retired what it means to person this disability. But she’s inactive hoping she tin reunite with Elijah, adjacent though it feels precise bittersweet for her close now.

TVLINE | That’s assuming that the amputation was a success. Lydia looked similar she was knocking astatine death’s doorway toward the extremity of the episode.
She is not retired of the woods. But astatine the aforesaid time, determination is anticipation successful that radical person survived this before. This is simply a communicative of idiosyncratic who was consenting to bash thing to prevention the idiosyncratic that she loves. Because for her, that’s what it means to unrecorded life. She ne'er would person done that erstwhile she was a Whisperer, due to the fact that determination was this survival-of-the-fittest mentality. This is however she’s truly antithetic from her mother. She doesn’t privation to wounded people, she wants to assistance them, adjacent if that means determination are pugnacious circumstances for her.

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| I was kinda stunned that Jerry would spell retired looking for Elijah, Luke and Jules for Lydia. He’s got a woman and kids.
We felt that Jerry has been connected his ain travel toward being a person successful his ain tiny way. He was idiosyncratic who was blessed to beryllium the No. 2, the feline who was supportive of the leader. But the happening that he’s realized is that for each of them, adjacent for him, you can’t conscionable get by by looking retired for your ain interests. I deliberation Jerry is scared. If you look astatine the show by Cooper Andrews, Jerry doesn’t privation to spell retired there, but this is what it feels similar to beryllium portion of a team. Jerry is really exceptionally brave. If you ticker what the Kingdom is like, the Kingdom cares for its people. The Kingdom is brave. The Kingdom fights. So I deliberation helium feels it’s his work to spell aft them. No antheral oregon pistillate near behind.

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