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Perhaps some of that relevance in 2018 is also how fractured things can become when that unity frays beyond repair.
Unveiling the deeply unresolved pain of the “All-Out War” and loss of the past two seasons, “The Obliged” found Danai Gurira’s Michonne toggling domestic bliss with Grimes and crafting new rules for the new world while spending her nights risking her own life secretly killing walkers. On a parallel track, Lauren Cohan’s Maggie Rhee, who is also set to exit the series, is now fully committed to a coup against Grimes’ leadership and a murderous quest against Jeffery Dean Morgan’s manipulative and imprisoned but still alive Negan.
As uprisings and betrayals of many stripes and on many fronts are breaking out all over the zombie apocalypse of the Angela Kang-showrun series, the final act of Rick Grimes’ long announced departure in next week’s “What Comes After” has begun. To that end, tonight’s Geraldine Inoa-penned and Rosemary Rodriguez-helmed fourth episode of Season 9 focused a lot of its narrative on the lacerated friendship and trust between Lincoln’s character and Reedus’ Daryl Dixon. A spotlight that found the almost brothers finally opening pursuing two very different agendas and laying it all out there in a deep hole, physically and psychologically.
I think, with critics, with the internet, with fan favorites, with all of these things, like if people are like “oh my God I can’t watch this show, they got rid of Rick Grimes,” then we’ve made you fall in love with Rick Grimes. Then we did a good job like if there’s a character on this show that’s such an badhole and you hate him, that means he’s doing a great job. That’s what he’s supposed to do, you know and Andy did what he was supposed to do.
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So, do I think we’ll lose viewers after Andy? I think they’ll tune in to see what happens to Andy and then they’re going to tune in to see what it’s like without him.
It was a great way to end things because the thing about Rick and Daryl’s relationship this season is that Rick’s just blinded by this idea of bringing these communities together and building this bridge. He defeated Negan and Carl wanted a better life for everybody, and before he died he wrote these letters and these letters really affected Rick. He’s blinded by this desire to build this bridge when like everything’s going against him and 90 percent of those people don’t even want a bridge, they don’t even want anything to do with each other.
You can have characters who will ramble on forever but they only said a little bit really once it’s done, you know? And then you have characters that say very little but a lot was said with it. I’m not really like a word monster. I don’t need to say a billion words, but it is nice to move around the room a little bit again.
We knew it, we knew it backward and forward. We helped create it, cause we put a lot of our own ingredients into that cake. To be honest, that scene, we could have done 100 takes of that scene and they all would have worked because we were dialed into it. We just threw a bunch out there, a bunch in the direction in a consigned space. You have to pick when you’re going to stand still and one person goes up and the other person stays still, and the other person kind of loses it and the other person listens. It was really fun and, for both of us, a really important scene to play.
The beast has just changed, permanently for everyone now.
Personally, I would love it if we never even talked about numbers. I just want to make a show we want to make, because what it feels like on set is great right now. I just want to make the honest show that we started making from the beginning, that’s what it feels like we’re making now.
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