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Shola Lee
Look, none of us want The Walking Dead to end, but showrunner Angela Kang has just dropped some major details about what the final episode will have in store.
The show will wrap up with season 11, and we'd battle all the walkers in the world to see it stay.
It's been an incredible 12 years, with the first episode of the hit show being released all the way back on 31 October, 2010. Feel old?
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Based on the popular comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, the TV show has already made a few changes from the source material, calling into question just how it will end.
Now Kang herself has revealed some plot details that have us jumping to see the final scene.
And, it turns out that the first episode of season 11 might hold the key to the final scenes.
Kang told Digital Spy that she 'can’t really say at this point' what's going to happen.
However, she did say that the other episodes in the final season follow the same format as the first, starting with an eerie narrator and montages: "Obviously, it’s our final block of episodes.
"We were all feeling a lot of nostalgia and emotion. One of the things that we were looking to do was to amp up the emotion in the last group of episodes, while still feeling tied to the themes of the story.
"Chief Content Officer Scott Gimple and I were talking, and he said, 'What if there were these montages at the beginning that sort of touch on some of the themes of the episodes, or certain characters?'"
So, it looks like the montages will all fit together to form a narrative thread through the final season.
As Kang says, these scenes tell 'one story' for the audience to unravel episode to episode: "I wanted to make sure that it was telling one story, that it didn’t feel too choppy from episode to episode. But it felt like it tied very organically to the idea of the Commonwealth, which told people, 'You can only be who you were. Who you were, determines who you are now.'"
And it's not just a cohesive story for this season, these scenes contribute to Kang and the writers' vision for the series, to ensure fans have a legacy to look back on: "For our people, they’re thinking about: 'Haven’t we grown beyond that? Isn’t there further to go?' So they’re thinking about legacy, but also looking forward at the same time."
Which leaves us with one final question: who is the narrator?
Some have suggested it sounds like Judith, Rick Grimes' daughter, and given that she lived through some awful events, it would make a lot of sense.
But only time will tell if that's the case.
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