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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThe Walking Dead 8.8 "How It's Gotta Be" (Spoiler Alert - Mid Season Finale)
Every story and battle comes crashing togetherThe spoiler sites are not publishing spoilers for this mid season finale - not for any legal reasons, but because the finale has a huge shocker in it.
FarPoint
(12,447 posts)Back to character development and storyline...
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)will be an important part of the war, but not the end of it
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)something weird?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2017/12/09/something-weird-is-going-on-with-the-walking-deads-allegedly-shocking-finale/#4ee95dfd3f77
Andy Lincoln and social media:
https://www.cinemablend.com/television/1738210/why-the-walking-deads-andrew-lincoln-doesnt-pay-attention-to-reviews
Carl's Fate?
http://uproxx.com/tv/does-carl-die-on-the-walking-dead/
What to expect?
https://www.metro.us/entertainment/tv/the-walking-dead-midseason-finale-when-what-expect-who-might-die-season-8
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)is anybody out there?
LoveMyCali
(2,015 posts)Anxious for the mid-season finale to start. I'm wondering who will die that will piss me off.
I hope the rumors aren't true
LoveMyCali
(2,015 posts)but I'm a big Rick fan so I'm hoping both he and Michone make it out alive. I'm willing to sacrifice Carl. lol
Iggo
(47,571 posts)Should be interesting to see how it comes together.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)In previous big episodes, when they have flashbacks, it means a person in the flashback dies. Not a good sign for Carl or Rick
Baitball Blogger
(46,758 posts)I don't think I'm going to take another big hit well.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)that Carl writes the letter to his dad.
Baitball Blogger
(46,758 posts)Accidental casualty of war?
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)and then Enid mistakenly kills their leader, Natania. Oops - allies lost?
Baitball Blogger
(46,758 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)Gives them 3 minutes to give up -
LoveMyCali
(2,015 posts)Who hit Jerry? What's happening?
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)to be honest
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)Carl asks Negan to kill him - and then says it's because he hopes it can make things better between both sides
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)the Saviors are everywhere and ambushing The Kingdom, Hilltop and Alexandria
Baitball Blogger
(46,758 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,758 posts)Slow motion, childlike music in he background.
And he's limping.
redwitch
(14,948 posts)Whoa Dwight!
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)give the good guys a small victory on a bad night for them
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,758 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,758 posts)OH SHIT!
Baitball Blogger
(46,758 posts)They're in the tunnels. The big event hasn't happened yet.
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)Rick lives another day? Whew.
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)Carl had gotten bitten when he rescued Siddiq in a previous episode
Baitball Blogger
(46,758 posts)I wondered about that attack.
Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)Fuck.
TDale313
(7,820 posts)Iggo
(47,571 posts)I hated that kid.
Baclava
(12,047 posts)People are all crawling up Gimples ass over this
Still Confused About That Tragic 'Walking Dead' Death? You're Not Alone
More or less the entire first half of season 8 takes place over a 48 hour window.
The scene with Rick and Carl talking with the gas can is before Carl is bit.
Carl is bit either on day one or day two (Im still not sure which) when he is helping Siddiq clear walkers in the woods after going back to leave him food.
Carl doesnt really react in the scene, but thats clearly when it happens. He tells no one. This happened in episode six, two weeks ago.
He brings Siddiq back to Alexandria and has him stay in the sewer until he can clear his arrival with his father/Michonne.
The day of the attack, one or two days into the stomach bite (we dont really know how long the infection takes to consume you in that location), Carl writes his dad a letter knowing that hes going to die. I believe he actually writes multiple letters to other people as well. The show plays this off like hes considering running away because he doesnt like who Rick has become.
Carl concocts an escape plan that allows everyone else to leave while he stays behind. He offers himself up to Negan as the punishment sacrifice, and does all of this because he knows hes dead anyway.
Carl is disoriented by the grenade blasts of the Alexandria siege, but also because hes 1-2 days into a walker bite, and the fever is starting to take him (you dont turn into a zombie from a bite, the infection kills you, then you resurrect).
By the time we see Carl in the sewer hes on his last legs. Its Carl who says I brought him here, thats when it happened, which is a reference to when he got the bite in episode 6.
Chandler Riggs says there will be one more episode with Carl, either through flashbacks or as hes dying. But he is dying. No head-fake, no secret immunity.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2017/12/12/still-confused-about-that-tragic-walking-dead-death-youre-not-alone/#518eb4b061a2
Iggo
(47,571 posts)Baclava
(12,047 posts)... either through flashbacks or as hes dying. But he is dying.
"No head-fake, no secret immunity"
so there it is
Ricks boy dies....kind of shocking in the scheme of things
Iggo
(47,571 posts)Baclava
(12,047 posts)With Judith being Shane's kid that leaves Rick with nothing - maybe he goes psycho again
Alexandria is being bombed and burned to the ground, the Kingdom is Negan;s new home and its people will be slaves...so that leaves Maggie and the hilltop as the last refuge
good stuff
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)were not happy with the change from AMC - they had recently asked Riggs to stay 3 more seasons, and I guess they changed their minds.
http://ew.com/tv/2017/12/11/the-walking-dead-chandler-riggs-dad/
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/the-walking-dead-mid-season-8-episode-8-carl-grimes-dies-chandler-riggs-father-finale-slams-scott-a8105001.html
Baclava
(12,047 posts)but then Carl should never have lived after being gut shot from the hunting rifle on the farm
but then we never would have had that great scene of him killing Lori after she died giving birth