Given that Carl has a major part in the comics - and is still alive in the current Issue #176 - Gimple's decision to kill him off not only came as a shock, but threw a spanner in the works of the show. However, it still won't take away the taste in some viewers' mouths that we have been wronged by killing off a character that seemed to key to the show. Executive producer Greg Nicotero had promised an emotional farewell, so at least The Walking Dead managed to deliver on that part of the deal. Kirkman had even teased that Carl might somehow survive his brush with death, but we were under no illusion that Carl was going to make it out alive when the show returned on February 26. This in many ways is sort of the ending of an era for The Walking Dead and the starting of a new one." We plan to do that moving forward as well - sometimes pulling moments from the book in sort of verbatim ways and sometimes in ways that are very different, with the goal of heightening the message in some way. "We wanted to tell a version of the comic story that kept emotions similar to what you’d get when reading the but in different ways, so that the comic-book-reading audience didn’t expect what was going to happen. THE WALKING DEAD 183 CBR TVSpeaking to TV Line, Gimple opened up about why he decided to end Riggs' time on the show and kill off one of the last remaining original characters: Related: The Walking Dead: Chandler Riggs Calls the Show a “Great Experience” After being bitten in the first half of season 8, fans knew that Carl's days were numbered, but the mideseason premiere did the unthinkable and saw the long-standing chracter shufffle off to an early grave. Since appearing in the very first episode of the popular zombie apocalypse show back in 2010, Chandler Riggs' character has become a focal point of the world based on Robert Kirkman's comic series. As AMC's The Walking Deadspectacularly kills off Carl Grimes, showrunner Scott Gimple is explaining how and why he came to the controversial decision.
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