ikr lol oh and ammo. The show used more ammo vs ww1/ww2 combined.My biggest gripe?
How many fucking Saviors have been taken out and yet they still seem to have the numbers?
ikr lol oh and ammo. The show used more ammo vs ww1/ww2 combined.
Just when Carl was starting to get interesting. :shrug:
“Watching Gimple fire my son 2 weeks before his 18th birthday after telling him they wanted him for the next 3 years was disappointing,” William Riggs wrote.
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Riggs, 18, has been on the show since its first season and was cast to play Carl when he was 11-years-old.
“Scott Gimple called me up and said, ‘You’re going to hate this one.’ He’s very good about alerting the cast when there’s going to be a (character) death,” Lincoln said. “I just didn’t speak for a minute. I always thought Carl was going to be the one who led the show forward; that Rick would hand over his boots and revolver when he walked off into the sunset in Season 28.”
The issue is that the scene with Siddiq happened two weeks ago. It was a relatively minor scuffle in the grand scheme of things, but even at the time when I thought “that’s stupid, Carl would definitely be bitten,” but that kind of thing happens all the time on the show, and it did not cross my mind until hours after the finale on Sunday. It is…somewhat clever what the show did with the letter writing and his sacrificial plan, but it’s also kind of stupid, as it makes Carl look less brave that he was only sacrificing himself because he was dead already, not because he was particularly courageous in that moment. I’d like to think he would have done that anyway, but perhaps not.
Again, I think Gimple was just trying to be too clever by hiding this and it made the moment more confusing than shocking. In an episode full of missing scenes especially, it felt like just another moment that was cut out. In retrospect, sure, I get what happened, but A) it was poorly executed and B) it is still an absolute travesty to kill off Carl when the entire series is based around him growing up the zombie wasteland and eventually assuming Rick’s leadership role as he continues to mature. Carl and Chandler Riggs both deserved better, and I don’t think anyone but Scott Gimple actually seems to think this was the right call to make.
So, that’s what happened. It now makes slightly more sense when you see it spelled out, but remains a terribly, horrible shark-jumping moment for The Walking Dead.
You're as big of a fan of the comics as anyone out there. How did you respond to Carl being killed off, especially considering that he's still alive and kicking ass in the comics?
It was devastating for me and my family because the show has been such a huge part of my life for so long. For a few days, we didn't know what to do; I just bought a house in Senoia [near where the show films in Georgia]. That was a big deal that I wouldn't be on anymore. I decided that I wanted to not go to college for at least a year and move to L.A. and focus on acting and music. It ended up being a great thing because now I get to do all kinds of other stuff that I haven't been able to do in the last eight years.
What was Scott's reasoning for killing Carl?
In the comics, Scott was trying to figure out why there was a hole between Rick slitting Negan's throat at the end of the "All-Out War" arc and then there's the time jump and Negan is alive and in prison and Rick didn't kill Negan. Scott was trying to figure out how to bridge the gap between Rick not wanting to kill Negan and Rick also really wanting to kill Negan, which he does right now [in the show's story]. Scott's way to get around that was to make Carl this really humanitarian figure and person who could see the good in people and see that people can change and not everyone out there is bad. That's what Carl's talk to Rick was in this episode: There's no way that they can kill every one of the Saviors and not everyone is a bad person and there has to be some way forward than just killing people.
The actor's dad sounds justifiably upset:
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...-did-to-his-son-days-before-his-birthday.html
They never disappoint.Im surprised anyone still watches this obama propaganda anymore
I like to scroll through the comments sections on Fox News stories completely unrelated to politics to find gems like this one.
They never disappoint.
I like to scroll through the comments sections on Fox News stories completely unrelated to politics to find gems like this one.
They never disappoint.
Is the time skip confirmed? That's probs why he killed Carl. How do you make him look older? He is 18 but looks like 13. I always wanted him dead so all good. I wont shed a tear like I did with Glenn :*(Interview with the actor who plays Carl:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/l...ing-die-chandler-riggs-exit-interview-1066031
So he turned 18 back in June. Gimple told him 2 weeks before his birthday that his character was going to die in the upcoming season:
IMO, they had to kill him off because he aged too quickly. In the comics, Carl is still young and his story arc loses some of its impact when it is happening to a 17-18yo. In the comics when he lost his eye it was a big deal. In the show it really wasn't. Negan pressing a 13yo about his fucked up face was great. In the show it was practically skipped over.The actor's dad sounds justifiably upset:
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...-did-to-his-son-days-before-his-birthday.html
Andrew Lincoln was pretty shocked too:
I wonder what the backstory is. Did Gimple do it for ratings? Did the studio force his hand? Was the actor or his family asking for too much money & they had to axe him?
As far as the show goes, Forbes put up a timeline in bullet-point form:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/insert...king-dead-death-youre-not-alone/#1d8d65b061a2
They make some good points:
I haven't been a huge fan of Carl for awhile, but this seemed like a dumb way to kill off his character. I'm sure they're going to do something cool with him before he leaves the show, but even Sasha, who I didn't care for even more, had a cooler exit than this (so far). Curious to see how they play this out. Obviously it will put Rick into full-on revenge mode. But man, all those times Rick had to save Carl over the years...like before they met the Termites & Rick bit that guy in the neck to protect Carl, that was some crazy stuff! And now Carl is going to be gone. Doesn't make any sense. I wonder if Gimple felt pressured from the dropping ratings or something...
Half of the air time is commercials.
Half of the air time is commercials.
Carl done did deaded. /spoiler
I lost interest last year I still record and most often just delete it but I tried to watch the last one. Seems like they don't have any ideas other than to kill each other. Delete and start over...
It seems more like this:
Rick's group finds a new place to live
Rick finds a way to piss off a rival group nearby
Rick's group and the rival group go to war
Some people die, some new people come in to replace them
The new place to live gets trashed
Rick's group finds a new place to live.
It's been that way since season 3, anyway.