Carl Grimes

For months, Walking Dead fans have dreaded the arrival of the midseason premiere for Season 08. Because this premiere would mark the end of the life of fan-favorite character Carl Grimes. The death was a major swerve to the narrative of the show, as the character is still alive in the comics. And reports flooded out once it was revealed about how actor Chandler Riggs was “dumped” from the show, or how he was “blindsided by the death”. Whatever the truth was then, he sees fine with it now. For during an interview, he noted that the way Carl went out in tonight’s episode was good for him: “I was very happy with the way Carl ended up going out,” Riggs said to ComicBook.com. “After reading the script, it made me feel a lot more comfortable with it and really excited to really show off what I can do in this last episode. This last episode it was some of the stuff that I’m most proud of. It’s super, super exciting

Something that must be started about certain fanbases is that when a show or film follows popular and well known source material, certain things are expected. Now, they do understand that not everything can be the same, as that would be very hard to do, but certain things are thought to be “sacred”. For the Walking Dead, the show has diverged from the comics in many ways. Certain people are alive when they’re dead in the comics, certain characters never showed up in the series. But the recent midseason finale though has many people angry. For in the midseason finale, Chandler Riggs, aka Carl Grimes revealed to Rick Grimes and Michonne that he had been bitten by a Walker, which means he will die soon. And right after the episode aired, Riggs and showrunner Scott Gimple confirmed that Carl Grimes will die in the midseason premiere when the show returns in February. Now, given that Carl is alive in the comics right now…fans are basically rioting. So much so in