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SPOILERS. The famous episode of the departure of Rick, historical hero of The Walking Dead, has just been broadcast on OCS. The episode, both strong and frustrating, raises a lot of questions …
That's it. Rick Grimes, the historical hero of the series The Walking Dead has made an explosive departure in the episode broadcast in France on OCS since November 5, 2018. The episode, entitled What comes after (What comes next), is underpinned by two parallel narratives. On the one hand the escape of Rick, seriously wounded, still trying to mislead a zombie horde away from his friends and, on the other hand, the quest for revenge Maggie, gone to slaughter Negan. He marks Rick's game exit (Andrew Lincoln), Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and a secondary character, Jadis (Pollyanna McIntosh)
Fan service
The episode played the fan service by "coming back" during Rick's different visions of missing characters and recalling some iconic images from previous seasons of the series (the barricaded door, Rick's patrol car or Rick's arrival in Atlanta devastated). That Rick visits his "dear" dead is not in itself a very new process, but, with exceptional departure, one can understand that the producers of the series have conjured several crucial figures of the life of the hero with the seasons. The imaginary asides that Rick leads with Hershel (the late Scott Wilson), kind of emotional father of the hero and Shane (Jon Bernthal), the friend who betrayed, fully justify themselves.
Missing absentees
In contrast, Rick's almost mystical conversation with Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green) in a landscape of death is more surprising. Sasha never played a pivotal role in Rick's life, unlike two great absentees whose presence would have made more sense: Carl (Chandler Riggs), the sacrificed son and Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies) his tragic wife. Angela Kang, the show-runner of The Walking Dead, told TVLine that she deliberately set aside the characters of Carl and Lori. According to her, seeing them again would have led Rick to finally lay down his arms and abandon his tragic race against the horde of zombies at his heels.
The false death
The bridge explosion, a deliberate move by Rick to save his friends from the horde on his heels, was a nice finale. A sacrifice for the explosive blow so that all the other characters can survive. But the release of Rick is not one: viewers are frustrated with this farewell yet announced for months. Found a little later by Jadis, Rick, wounded but alive, is indeed embarked in the mysterious helicopter where he is obviously lavished emergency care. In short, it has probably survived and the scene therefore shows less a poignant hero farewell than a reserve, in a scripted fridge, a crucial character.
Scott M. Gimple still raging
This is without a doubt what explains Scott M. Gimple, the show's former showrunner, telling the Hollywood Reporter that Rick – unlike what we've been told for months – does not make a definite departure. He will return in fact in three independent TV movies coming later. It is not certain that Scott M. Gimple, now responsible for the "brand" Walking Dead and already guilty of the enormous impbade that constituted the season 8 as well as the totally gratuitous death of Carl, was right to put in place this little ruse scenaristique. The series had already resorted to it with Glenn's false death in season 6 and the fans had, at the time, extremely badly reacted …
The "real" big sequence
The real big stage of the episode therefore seems less the false-departure of Rick than the confrontation between Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Maggie (Lauren Cohan). The latter, who came to slaughter Negan in the prison, realizes that the former leader of the Saviors is no more than a broken wreck. Negan only dreams of dying to escape the barricade purgatory in which Rick and Michonne locked him up. This revelation, carried by a very intense interpretation of Lauren Cohan, close in beauty the vendetta of Maggie against Negan.
The big final surprise
On the other hand, a last surprise awaits the televiewers at the end of the episode: a group of new survivors is saved from the undead by an expert shooter. It is about Judith, the daughter of Rick, now pre-teen while she was still a girl at the beginning of the episode. The finale is an accelerated ten years: all the characters (Michonne, Carol, Daryl and others) have aged almost a decade in the next episode and the departure of Maggie also finds a "pretext" chronological.
Carl and Judith same fight?
The Walking Dead here attempts a revival with a temporal acceleration for the extremely surprising blow. Is it about setting up a new protagonist? In the original comic, Judith does not exist and Carl never died. Did Judith grow suddenly to allow the character to take the place of Carl and allow the series to pick up the pieces with the plot of the comic The Walking Dead ?
Slideshow directed by Christophe Coulmy.
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