Walking Dead creator apologises for S6 finale
"We weren't trying to game the audience, we weren't trying to drive you crazy," assures Robert Kirkman.
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The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman has apologised to fans who were angry with the season six finale in which Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and his baseball bat ‘Lucille’ unleashed havoc on one of the major characters.
Kirkman has penned an open letter in the latest issue of his and Charlie Adlard’s Walking Dead comic. Swearing it was never the intent to “game the audience” by not revealing the identity of Negan’s victim, Kirkman also promises the finale “was setting something up that you probably won’t see coming.”
“Some people love it. Some people are indifferent. Some people HATE it,” Kirkman wrote. “We weren’t trying to game the audience, we weren’t trying to drive you crazy, and we certainly weren’t trying to FORCE you to come back for season seven…we hope you were always planning on doing that and still plan on doing that. We did want you to talk. And talk you are.”
“And think of it this way…a character you love and are going to miss is DEAD, and we have you a few extra months to hope, not to grieve,” he continued. “Is there uncertainty? Yes. But that was kind of the idea.
“For some of you, that effort backfired and you’re angry. And for that, I’m sorry. The only thing I can PROMISE you is that the season seven premiere is going to be awesome,” he wrote. “And every minute of the season six finale was important and was setting something up that you probably won’t see coming…Be afraid…be very afraid. And excited!”
All will be revealed when it airs on FX in October.
Source: Comic Book Resources
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I don’t get all the complaining about it either. People went absolute bonkers in the comments section of TVLine and Entertainment Weekly threatening to boycott the show. What an overreaction. I thought it was well done
I really don’t get the anger of some people over this. Why don’t you wait till the next few episodes air and then complain if there is no payoff for the cliffhanger. This is not the comic. It’s a TV show based on a comic. Kirkman has said there will be a payoff so let’s see if there is. Everyone was expecting to see Glenn get killed so what would the excitement have been in that. It wouldn’t have been unexpected at all.
it left me wanting more, can’t wait for October to get here
I don’t really see what’s so controversial about it. It’s hardly close to the biggest cliff hanger some shows have had.
Me neither. “Who makes it, who doesn’t?” cliffhangers are what TWD does.
Personally, I’m much more annoyed by the sudden attacks of stupidity the script regularly demands from all the characters…
Ok I’m the first to admit that I was annoyed about the cliffhanger but after a while I thought about it and got over it, I don’t need an apology. Just like we had an apology from an actor from another huge franchise this week, again an unwarranted apology just to appease a vocal minority.
The damage is done. No apology will fix that… They honestly just made a bad call. It sure as hell pissed me off.
He really doesn’t get it at all. It would have been better to let the audience have the 6 months to grieve for whoever they kill off then come back fresh for the repercussions from that death. Such a shame he’s involved with the production, they need to stop giving him so much creative control, he’s not G.R.R. Martin who already had a TV background. Although Scott Gimple and Greg Nicotero seemed even more pleased with themselves than usual after the finale so who knows who the main ‘culprit’ was behind the Lucille fake out.