Warning: This article contains spoilers about Sundays episode ofThe Walking Dead, What We Became.
The bad news: Sundays What We Became episode ofThe Walking Deadmarked the final appearance ofDanai Guriras Michonne.
(Also see to it to read ourgoodbye interview with Gurira.)
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So we went from there.
Lets talk about a few of those.
Obviously, it starts off the initial Andrea meetup scene.
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For us, the way she came into the show was by helping a stranger, Andrea.
And Andrea is one of our beloved characters that we had at the time.
And so that is what brings her ultimately into our group’s orbit.
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I’d rather not," the trajectory of her life would’ve been different.
In terms of syncing up with older episodes, it was a really interesting and kind of fun process.
Production had to recreate certain situations to get new footage such as the lineup with Negan and Michonne.
They basically recreated the RV behind them and Negan and Michonne and her kind of passing through.
And we recreated the beds in the corners and put Laura there and put Michonne in there.
Yeah, it was seamless.
That’s a pretty bold step.
I think every villain is the hero of their own story.
In their minds, they are making decisions that are what are helping them and their people survive.
But they went in and killed a bunch of people in their sleep.
And from the Saviors point of view, that was an act of war.
And so depending on the perspective, its actions take a different light.
But there are obviously certain key ways that Negan was behaving that our people just really don’t do.
But our people had to do some pretty tough things in their time as well.
And if Michonne were to meet that group first, would her life have taken a different path?
Am I going down the right path?"
Was there anything else that changed or did not make it into the episode?
We went through a bunch of different iterations of things.
And I was like, “Oh, that’s really interesting.”
This is not me in this weird fantasy."
So that was one of the odd paths that we kind of discovered as we were going through it.
We see later that she discovers Rick’s boots, which leads her on this new mission.
There’s also some lettering on that phone.
Can you tell me what that lettering says?
And I believe the Japanese says something like Believe a little longer."
So it was a message to Rick from somebody, somehow on this boat.
I mean, this is a 360-degree situation, isn’t it?
And she’s really not been in a place to have to walk with the dead.
But ultimately, as she has in the past, she makes a choice to walk with people.
And so I think that really is true to Michonne’s character.
So what can you tell us about this group marching off that she sees at the end?
Is this the same three-rings group that took Rick in the helicopter?
More of a question for Scott Gimple.
But I will say that as far as I know, this group isnotpart of that same group.
They kind of have a whole different way of dress.
They’re dressed in animal skins.
They’re traveling in kind of this very organized caravan.
So yeah, we’ll see what adventures await.
Yeah, she started that journey kind of heading up north.
So somewhere in between.
Well, I really hope those two reunite is what I could say.
I mean, it’s sort of not my realm.
But certainly, I think it’s like we’re promising some sort of new story ahead.
Negan’s killed Alpha, delivered her head to Carol.
What can you tell us about what’s coming up next?
We really had fun putting together Negan and Carol.
So we will come back and find out more about what exactly was going on between them.
And we obviously left Beta.
He has not yet found out yet that his Alpha is gone.
And so we will be dealing with that, and there’s some pretty important implications going forward.
So I’m really excited for our fans to see this next episode.
