![]() Now, Michonne (Danai Gurira) and the rest of the group believe that Rick died because of this explosion. That’s what we were thinking creatively for why he doesn’t see Carl, but he does hear Lori’s voice for just a moment. ![]() He has to save them, he can’t stop – and if he were to see Laurie and Carl, he would stop. We thought his mind would not allow him to see those two because what he’s trying to do is keep going for the family he has now which is, you know, all of his friends and Michonne. They represent a kind of endpoint that he wants to get to, but for a dying man that felt like if you find Lori and Carl, that means it’s time to rest because you found your home, you’re going to die now. For us creatively, Lori and Carl were the family he was looking for. And Sasha as a soldier she really imparts some wisdom, and strategy, and the idea of a bigger picture. He’s a father figure to him, he gently tells him he has to keep going. Each of those three characters kind of give a specific piece of the puzzle that he needs to keep going: Shane kind of riles him up but pushing him towards the brutal courage that he needs. Hershel represents, like, a vision of heaven – a place to rest his heart. So that’s kind of the context we used for these hallucinations and these dreams. ![]() They sometimes believe they see somebody who they either know or somebody they don't know that appears to help them to help them survive. It’s like when somebody trapped on a mountain in the snow and a sherpa would come out of nowhere and they’ll swear that this person led them down the mountain – except they were never there. We really started diving into this idea of something called "the third man phenomenon," which is something that commonly happens to people when they’re on the brink of death, but actually, survive. So that was a great gift that we knew early on and that’s what we were going towards the whole time.ĪK: Actually no and I’ll tell you why: it’s a story reason. It’s not anything that we expect fans to necessarily figure out, it’s just part of our internal logic. Scott Gimple – who was writing these movies and planning the expansion of the universe – he kind of said, "Okay here’s what I need to have happen: Rick has to go out by flying off in a helicopter." He told me what the backstory for the philosophy of those people are and, while I don’t know everything that’s planned for that movie, we were like, "Okay that’s a pretty cool story." So we were able to start seeding in the things that we needed to make sure that the helicopter story was back and alive in the world, while hopefully having a bit of a mislead with how he exits the show. ![]() From the time that I knew that we had to write him out, I knew that the plan was to transition him into these other projects, but since that part is not my realm, it wasn’t for me to speak about. ET: As the showrunner of The Walking Dead this season, how long have you known that Andrew Lincoln's “final episode” would actually not be the last time that we'll see Rick Grimes?Īngela Kang: I knew that for a long time. ![]()
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