A lot of people have died onThe Walking Dead.
I mean,a lotof people.
And thats not even including the people that are no longer people (as in, zombies).
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Read on to discover what he had to say about all that and more.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: I know you like to break things out into eight-episode chunks.
So, lets talk about the first half of season 7.
What is the theme moving forward for the next eight episodes?
Now, they discover that this new world is not at all the world that they thought it was.
And theyve had a devastating loss.
So, that place they thought they lived in is shattered.
Obviously there have been a lot of big deaths on this show, but this one already feels different.
Yeah, well, this isnt somebody being attacked by a Walker, it isnt random, its purposeful.
Not only do they have this terrible loss, but they lose their autonomy.
Theyre under someones thumb now, in every way.
Theyre powerless, they lose all of their power.
At every opportunity up to this point, theyve been parlaying that power.
And their power was fighting together.
Thats what episode 609 was all about.
That was the great victory that they had, last season.
They went, Holy crap, if we do this all together, we can do anything!
But that isnt true.
Its a bigger group and they are fertile and they are relentless and ruthless.
And the death is evidence of that.
But theyre moving into a whole new reality.
And its not the reality they want to live in but they have to.
What does this do to the relationship with Alexandrians and the Hilltop?
They took this job from the Hilltop.
They said, Give us all your food and well get rid of this Negan character.
Now that this happens, what does this mean between the relationship between Alexandria and the Hilltop?
It means a great deal.
Gregory is a very slippery character.
And who knows what hell do?
Hes about preserving himself and the Hilltop.
But, ultimately, the Hilltop has new information, too.
They didnt know that there were more Saviors.
They thought that that outpost was the Saviors.
It makes their situation incredibly fraught.
And Gregory is incredibly worried, like, Well, wait, did they know?
Did the Saviors know that we had a deal with Alexandria?
Are they going to come here and kill us?
