Warning: If you’ve not seen the last two episodes of The Walking Dead, the following article has SPOILERS. Please stop reading if you don’t want to know!
The latest episodes of The Walking Dead have increased the body count of some of the series regulars. Last week, Dale died at the hands of a zombie and this week it was Shane shuffling off this mortal coil.
Series producer Robert Kirkman says that deaths are all part of the continued fall-out from the first half of season two.
“This entire back half of the season is all about escalation from the moment where Sophia stepped out of the barn , it kind of lit a fuse that has been going on and on and on and getting bigger and bigger and bigger every episode,” Kirkman tells the New York Daily News.
Kirkman added that the deaths of the two characters were different from what unfolded in the comics. Shane died early in the series run while Dale enjoyed a romance with Andrea and had a longer life span in the comics.
Kirkman says the deaths serve a purpose and its done just to shock viewers.
“That scene right there, Carl would never have had the strength to pull the trigger and save his father from Shane zombie if he hadn’t had that ordeal with Dale and felt responsible for killing Dale because he wasn’t able to shoot that zombie,” he says.
“It’s exciting to me to think about someone who may have read 90 somewhat issues of ‘The Walking Dead,’ can watch one episode and go, ‘Oh my God, they killed Dale, I did not see that coming. That was totally shocking.'”
In other words, don’t get too emotionally attached to just about every character on the show. Nobody is safe.
Kirkman promises that it’s only going to get worse in Sunday’s episode. This week’s ends with the sight of a stampede of zombies alerted to the location of Herschel’s farm, where the crew is holed up, by the sound of Carl’s gun shot.
And while AMC will only release one preview scene from the episode, Kirkman offers a few more hints.
“The finale is probably our biggest episode so far,” says Kirkman, who teases the episode as “complete and utter chaos. “The cast we begin the episode with is radically altered by the end of the episode.”
Spoiler warning? It’s only Tuesday!
There is a SPOILER warning at the top of the article. And these SPOILERs have been all over the rest of the Net.
That’s really neat but here’s what I see in Google Reader before I ever click on the link to read the article.
Kirkman Discusses Latest “Dead” Episodes
by Michael Hickerson
The latest episodes of The Walking Dead have increased the body count of some of the series regular. Last week, Someone did something and this week it was Someone doing something else.
Maybe you shouldn’t be reading articles about ongoing series that you aren’t caught up with, especially with headlines such as “Chief Bigwig Talks About Everything Happening”. You don’t have to read past the title to guess there’s going to be spoilers included.
I AM CAUGHT UP. I was just suggesting that maybe this stuff not be in the first fracking paragraph from now on.
This spoiler WAS in the first paragraph and that means a lot of news readers INCLUDING GOOGLE READER would show the spoiler right up there along with the title.
Again, it’d been two days since the episode aired and said SPOILERS were all over the Internet.
Sorry to have SPOILED it for you, but you were warned.
I don’t read ALL OVER THE INTERNET. I read here.
Try putting the juicy stuff a couple paragraphs in so that readers with previews like Google Reader don’t show the spoiler right up there with the title.
I just checked the TV News page on your website and it’s right there too. In the first paragraph. There’s no spoiler warning there either.
I didn’t get nailed this time because I am caught up but is it really too much to ask that the spoilers not be right up there with the title in the feed?
I purposely skipped another article that showed up in my RSS feed because it stated that two major characters had died in the last two episodes. That was clear and I did not read it since I knew that I had missed something major since I had not seen the last episode. Now this one comes out and spoils it in the RSS article description! Why did you do that? Since I already had the surprise spoiled, I continued on to this article and there at the top of the article it clearly has a spoiler alert specifically regarding the last two episodes in bold, but where is the warning in the RSS feed? Thanks a lot, since I have not seen last weeks episode. That sucks! Put the spoiler alert in the RSS feed description also!
Ah… now I get it. The spoiler warning wasn’t included in the Excerpt, and that’s what shows up on the RSS feed as well as the article teasers on the website.
That’s been updated now, too.
Thanks Summer.