WARNING: Spoilers ahead for The Walking Dead season six and possible season seven. If you hate spoilers, turn away now.
Melissa McBride sat down for a chat with the Los Angeles Times, part of a live interview streamed across their Facebook platform, and it seems that she very well could’ve saved a certain Walking Dead fan favorite from getting bashed to death by Negan and his baseball bat.
When we left Rick Grimes and his crew at the end of seasons six, Carol had gone off on her own and ends up getting shot. Morgan shows up to save her and ends up taking her for help — possibly to The Kingdom. She’s in a bad way, but so is her counterpart on the show, Daryl. He’s also carrying around a bullet, but possibly ends up at the end of Negan’s lovely Lucille. Things don’t look good for either of them, but McBride manages to hint at a future for both on the show:
“It’s going to be interesting in season seven to see how these characters alone deal with the situations that they are in…”As far as, ‘what is their relationship?’ It’s just Daryl and Carol.””
Now as one user on Reddit points out, killing Daryl would be a horrible turn for a show already facing a fan backlash for their cliffhanger habits. Norman Reedus is popular and his existence on the show has created some of the more powerful relationships that fans have gravitated to. A welcome change from the comic series, which is usually not the case.
This is not a confirmation or denial about Daryl’s death on the show — or Carol’s, obviously — but it does bode well for Reedus and McBride. It’s been well reported that nobody was around to film the ending of season six, so the death has not been filmed yet. But the person who bites it has likely been at least informed about what’s going on, for job purposes.
If Daryl and Carol are at least hinted to continue their “relationship” into season seven, survival is almost guaranteed. Book it, at least up to the point that Daryl has his head beat in somewhere around the mid-season finale of season seven — each victim is going to get their own dream episode, of course. Check out the full chat below:
(Via Los Angeles Times)
