Dead City’ season 2 finale ending explained

This article contains spoilers on The Walking Dead: Dead City Final of season 2, “if history was a conflagration”.

What is old is new. It is because The Walking Dead: Dead City I brought back the most sadly famous moment in the history of the franchise when Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) gathered an alignment of two men to play another deadly round of Eeny-Meeny-Mine-Moe in the final of season 2.

This time, it was Bruegel by Kim Coates and Armstrong de Gaius Charles on his knees when Negan decided to kill. Even if his bat was landed on the latter with moeThe former chief of the sanctuary decided that he first wanted to kill Bruegel. And Negan made him even more brutal by filling Bruegel full of methane and watching him burn from the inside before finishing the work with Lucille.

Worried that Armstrong finally puts Ginny (Mahina Napoleon) in danger), Negan then tried to finish the new marshal who became the colonel, but was stabbed in the back (literally) by Maggie de Lauren Cohan – who had promised her son Hershel (Logan Kim), she would finally finish the man who had murdered her husband. But once the group noticed that Ginny had already died and turned to a zombie, Maggie could not finish the work, and rather gave his knife to Negan to finish the girl.

With a second wave of New Babylon forces walking through Manhattan, Maggie, Negan and Armstrong buried in the apartment and ended the season with a joint proclamation. “The truth is that there is only one way to follow, a way of moving on. We were able to work on what was, to achieve what will be,” said Maggie and Negan, lines alternating while the flashes of their trip during the last two seasons have appeared on the screen. “We help each other and the path becomes much clearer now. We continue, together. And we get there. ”

Ah, but where is there? Weekly entertainment spoken with Traveling Content director and Dead city Executive producer Scott M. Gimple on what happened in the final and what this end -of -end speech means going forward.

Entertainment Weekly: Tell me about going back to the Eeny-Many-Mine-Moe scene and giving Negan another program with Bruegel and Armstrong.

Scott M. Gimple: The greatest thing in The Walking Dead is the change. If you look at Rick Grimes when he started and look at the end, you are haunted by who you were, these ghosts. And Negan is particularly haunted by this. I mean, we told him to become that again. He says to himself, “I don’t want to become that again.” And yet we are there. He resisted there, but we are there.

What about putting the twist where he landed on Armstrong but then kills Bruegel instead?

Well, I suppose it may be the change. The relationships between these two characters from Armstrong and Negan, even with everything, they are quite good. I mean, Armstrong made him a major solid. Bruegel is charming and funny, but no solid has been given.

What idea was it to make another Negan range? Does this showrunner Eli Jorné and the writers?

There are things with which I go to all the shows, be it small ideas or whether they are universe things, but it was Eli’s twisted spirit, and I think it was great. We have seen a lot of methane in this program, but not used this way. And I remember that Kim Coates was like, “How will it work?” And I remember that Greg Nicotero was like: “Oh, I know Exactly How will it work!

I thought it was one of the most incredible gags that we’ve been seen for a while. And I hate seeing Bruegel leave. I think with The Walking Dead At best, you always hate seeing the character go because you are like: I want it. I want to continue to see this. I got to know Kim throughout all of this, and it’s a remarkable guy. And one of the funniest and most sly charismatic guys I met.

It is so good. If the Emmys have really honored shows like this, give him the Emmy now. He is so good in this role.

Oh, I hit this drum. Listen, if it’s not at the Saturn Awards, I’m going to turn around. It’s a fantastic world. It’s a crazy situation. However, his representation of the character overcomes all this. You know what I mean? We are at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and there are insane walker fights, and even the twists and turns we have on Walker’s fight, there are crazy things, but it’s just like, “Oh no, it’s a real person. It’s a real magnetic person.” And this is the thing that founds these fantastic worlds actually for the public.

The reason why I replay the programming act works here is the fact that Maggie must look at it again. It is sort of the real impact of it having to start again. Talk a bit about his role in this scene.

Maggie is happening there. She brings major luggage to it. And I’m not only saying about the past, I say of the last hour, and it’s a tribute to Lauren to play all these different levels. Reacting to things is among the most difficult to play. You could say a line, you have this thing to do, but to play an expression, play an feeling, not an easy thing. I don’t worry with Lauren.

Here is the question for me: if Negan was not about to denigrate Armstrong’s head, do you think Maggie goes and stab Negan at the back? If she doesn’t have to go to this second to save Armstrong, does she pass him and dagger?

It’s a fantastic question. I mean, I can answer it. I told you several times: I can totally answer this question, but I am not as much as the public is right. And, of course, the same thing with anyone who works there. Once it goes to the public, it’s theirs. So I can tell you what I believe. I think she would have anyway. Hence she is, and considering what rocked her to finish work with Ginny – Yeah, I am my opinion that she would have, because she had not yet changed.

What can you say about the closure of the season on this speech that Armstrong begins, then Maggie and Negan in a way in both directions?

I always plead on these programs, in particular these short -term shows, for a real conclusion, and the network and the showrunners can take it where they want. I defend it. If I governed with a kind of iron fist, I would have a conclusion, but I was in the role and I want people to express themselves as they had to.

That said, this song looked like a very important emotional conclusion that a real change had finally been made between these two characters. This Maggie had gone to the edge of Negan’s extinction. She didn’t do it. Negan had crossed a trip where he was forced to become something he really didn’t want to be. And I think there was a big change between the two, then in themselves, which I really like.

Does that mean going before they are not going ping-ponging as much in terms of gender, “okay, we are working together, but now we are not”? Are you saying that they are somehow form more than – I don’t want to call them a coherent unit, which would be a sort of a strange term for these two….

I would use the word relaxation.

Okay, it works.

I think they will always be in a better place. Whether or not it is “okay, I’m not going to kill you” – I mean, it’s a great success. That it stretches far beyond, we will all have to wait and see. I do not think they will be foggy of soon, but I think I see in the end, they must have this reconciliation.

It’s such a funny thing because it’s been so many years that it happened, and when I say so many years, I say in our world while looking at the show – anyone who has happened would be completely justified for the rest of his life to completely and completely hate the person who did this. There is no doubt about it. But in this story, you can see how this hatred or anger can be corrosive for the person who hates. And I think it was a long road for the public and a long road for the character. And it seems that it is the beginning in another way.

Do you indicate that there is more history to tell, so the immediate story after that includes a fight against New Babylon? Does this seem the next chapter of this story? They walk on the island. We see the second wave coming. Is that what our protagonists will face?

I don’t like to say in one way or another, but I will say that we have surprised you in the past as far as it is concerned, it seems that they will be a terminus forever, or it seems that this or it seems that. You never know.

This interview has been modified for duration and clarity.

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