Warning: This article contains spoilers about Sundays episodeThe Walking Deadtitled A Certain Doom.
Hence the title, A Certain Doom.
But our heroes had a secret weapon on their side… Talking Heads!!!
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By blaring the 1983 Talking Heads classic Burning Down the House.
How did Talking Heads become the unlikely heroes of the episode?
There’s just a lot of fans of the Talking Heads on the show, says showrunner Angela Kang.
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I think that that was actually a choice by our editor, says Kang.
That was how it came about.
What made the song perfect?
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If we’ve got to burn down the house, let’s do it.
Let’s go out and style.
And it felt like the right match for whatever reason.
The song was expensive, says Kang.
But we tried out different options and none of them ever felt right.
It just feels like it’s the right song.
There was no deep, scripted meaning to this one.
It just felt so right once it was in the cut and I love it.
So I was glad we were able to put that one in.
Of course, there were some other heroes in A Certain Doom not named David Byrne or Tina Weymouth.
ANGELA KANG:Amazing.
Lauren and I have always bonded, and Maggie is such a great character.
And she’s so lovely and so fun to work with.
She just brings such energy and optimism and positivity to our set.
So we’d been trying to work out, How and when can you come back?
And so we were all really thrilled to have her back with us.
It just felt like we hadn’t missed a beat.
And she was just right back in and she did a wonderful job.
And she was just hanging with us for a while and going to all the meetings with the director.
And then she just stepped on set and it was like no time had passed at all.
So it was really great.
He hands her moms mask, he drops down an elevator shaft.
Lets take Lydia first.
Shes the one that grabs the backpack after Beatrice gets swarmed.
Why is Lydia ready to sacrifice herself and why does she then go save Carol?
You should be the Alpha growing up and take over this group."
She learned to do it as a child.
It’s just that it’s definitely not what her mother thinks.
But Lydia loved that son, and so they’ve got this really strange relationship.
And that she’s learned from and that she hopes to make amends with.
I did like the scene though, where she tells Carol she’s not looking for another mom.
They need to do their own thing and work out their own trauma.
Lets look at the other half of the battle now.
Negan then does exactly that and takes on Beta.
So all three of them had to be cool and have a cool part of the thing.
And I think they were all great.
We talked a lot about how Alpha as this charismatic leader.
I mean, she’s called Alpha and he’s called Beta.
There’s a reason why he was content to be her number two.
So we were just talking about, well, then how does it even fall to the number two?
I buy it."
They have this very special bond and so that’s what’s flashing through his mind.
You tried to pull a fast one on us and make us think Connie was a Walker.
How dare you do that?
So definitely, we’d love to see him back and have some adventures with Connie.
And I think Greg just shot the hell out of it.
He knows how to make something look like a Walker that’s not a Walker.
This is ripped pretty much straight out of the comic book.
We definitely have our own way into the story.
I’ll just say that this group does play a very important role going forward for our characters.
Who are these people?
What are they about?
We will start to learn that over time and unpeel those layers of the onion.
Also verify to check out ourinterview with Ryan Hurst, who plays Beta.
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