If it’s not Glenn who dies in the finale, who will it be? According to new leaked plot details, it’s nobody. Or at least, nobody we will see.
Fans have been guessing that it might be Abraham (spared from his comic-book fate in last week’s episode), Daryl (Norman Reedus has been taking on other projects) or even a pregnant Maggie (Lauren Cohan got a haircut) on the chopping block in Glenn’s place. Leaked finale info does indicate that Negan considers killing Maggie—who is mid-labor during the finale—just to shut her up. But according to the leak, after Negan plays a game of “eenie, meenie, miney, moe” with some of our favorite characters, the camera shifts to the victim’s point of view. In other words, we’ll see Negan swing the bat towards the camera and then, after the episode cuts to black, we will spend seven months arguing over which character—Abraham, Daryl, Maggie, Glenn, etc.—was on the receiving end.
And Gimple may have fun adding fuel to that speculative fire. He’s recently said of Negan’s deathly intro:
Let me put it this way: Whatever it is, it’s really just all in service to being faithful to the comic book inasmuch as one can. That’s always going to be relatively subjective as to what that means. But taking inspiration from the moments of the comic book and playing them out to the ends of what it can be, it’s all just like taking that moment from the book and figuring out a way to turn it up to get those feelings that it gave you and those emotions that it gave you that much more.
See? It really could be any fan favorite staring down that bat.
It’s a brilliant, maddening play from The Walking Dead. Sure, it will be hard to conceal once the show goes back into production for Season 7. It’s sort of a reverse of the situation over on Game of Thrones. Unlike Kit Harington, who had to make excuses as to why he was hanging around the Game of Thrones set after his character died in the finale, whichever Walking Dead actor is meeting their maker at the close of Season 6 may have to pretend to film some of Season 7. We wouldn’t put that kind of on-set trickery past a show that had Steven Yeun ducking under blankets in the back of cars for several weeks while they pretended Glenn was gone for good. And as frustrated as fans might be by the cliff-hanger, everyone will be guessing, analyzing, and, most importantly, talking about this particular twist of the plot for the entire seven-month hiatus between seasons.
