The biggest Walking Dead news to come out of San Diego Comic-Con was definitely the release of the first preview for season seven, giving us new glimpses of Negan, Lucille, The Kingdom, Ezekiel, and my favorite: Ezekiel’s tiger. Past that the cast and crew were pretty tight lipped, which is to be expected considering they’re trying to keep a lid on one of the biggest cliffhangers in television history.
But after The Walking Dead panel ended, Lauren Cohan stuck around to speak with a number of press about her character arc as season seven opens. Here’s what ComicBook.com has her saying:
“If we think of the theme of pregnancy, Maggie is a hopeful character and she’s deciding that it’s a good idea to hope that the future world will have a place for her child,” Cohan says. “I think that’s so important. I think that for the group and what Judith has given us and in the repeated rising from the ashes that we have all experienced up to this point… I think the lesson that I take from character progression and from what we see in the shows is that there will be some breaking that’s inevitable but we do come and we do learn how much deeper is your spiritual connection and those that you love and things like how you decide about that.”
“It’s a horrible crazy world but we have a triumph in the longest because we know who we are and we know who we are to each other,” Cohan concludes.
Of course, it’s impossible not to read into this and attempt to decode possible hints as to who gets Lucille’d by Negan at the start of the season. Does Lauren’s long answer or even just her participation in this special post-panel reporter scrum indicate that she’ll survive? Or does her comments about hope followed by mentions of a ‘breaking’ mean Negan will break the group’s hope by killing her?
The fact that there was no footage of Cohan past the Negan execution scene in the Comic-Con trailer only intensifies my worries we’ll see a pregnant woman get her brains bashed in when the show returns for season seven in October. After death scenes like Noah and the revolving door, I wouldn’t put it past the show runners to shock us all like that and take away all hope to set the tone for what’s to come.
As Negan actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan said recently, “What you’re going to see in the first half of this season is Negan wreaking havoc. And some of your characters that you’ve grown to love are not going to be on the show anymore, and it’s going to end badly for them.”
October can’t come soon enough.
(via ComicBook.com)
