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As the last episodes of The Walking Dead statesman to air, the amusement is amping up the nostalgia origin successful a large way. Find retired what showrunner Angela Kang revealed astir the process.
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What's aged is caller again—even connected The Walking Dead.
On Oct. 2, the archetypal of the storied zombie drama's last 8 episodes premiered and things kicked disconnected with a montage narrated by Judith (Cailey Fleming), the girl of Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies) and Shane (Jon Bernthal), who was adopted by Rick (Andrew Lincoln).
"I've heard a batch of stories astir erstwhile the satellite fell," she said. "There were much dormant than living, and it started to look similar the satellite would spell cold."
As Judith spoke, images from seasons' past flashed crossed the screen, including Rick successful The Walking Dead's precise archetypal occurrence successful 2010, arsenic good arsenic glimpses astatine characters similar Beta (Ryan Hurst), Alpha (Samantha Morton) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) from crossed the years.
So, what was the information for this travel down representation lane?
"When we were moving connected this past block, we were looking for things that would springiness america a consciousness of history," The Walking Dead showrunner Angela Kang told Entertainment Weekly Oct. 3, "because the Commonwealth thematically has truthful overmuch to bash with who were you before, and you're stuck being that. And I deliberation the communicative for our characters is, tin we turn from who we were before?
Kang revealed that the montages volition past until the bid finale connected Nov. 20—and that the thought came from Walking Dead main contented serviceman Scott M. Gimple.
"He pitched this large thought of 'What if you bash these opening montages successful immoderate benignant of way?,'" Kang said. "The conception for it was a small different, but past we benignant of landed connected this peculiar mode that the narration works."
Kang besides teased that each montage is specifically tailored to the themes of the week's episode, truthful fans should wage other adjacent attention, adding, "So you'll person to ticker and spot however it each plays out. But also, if you perceive to the voice-overs, it's telling a story, too."
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As for what viewers tin expect, storyline-wise, arsenic The Walking Dead takes its last bow? Kang said determination are inactive plentifulness of large questions near to beryllium answered.
"All parties request to fig out, is determination a mode forward? Is this each going to detonate into war?" Kang teased. "What's going to hap next? And I don't deliberation immoderate of them cognize what the adjacent measurement is. And truthful there's going to beryllium immoderate large enactment and turns, and hopefully the assemblage volition beryllium amazed by the amusive that ensues."
The Walking Dead airs Sundays astatine 9 p.m. connected AMC.
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