"The Walking Dead" was a pretty dark show, the one who constantly killed the characters in Brutal, horrible ways. It was a show filled with monologues on how humanity is doomed to suffering. But there was a constant source of hope throughout the series that many fans took for granted: a reliable young Carl (Chandler Riggs), which was a new generation of survivors who would grow up and take responsibility.

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Since Rick's generation has grown in comfort just to throw it at once, Carl's generation has grown to hell and lived to see society renewed. While most other young characters in the show went crazy and/or died tragically, Carl managed to keep his spirits for nearly eight seasons. No matter how much things go, even when the group stumbled into the cannibals and dictators, the development of Carl in a difficult, brave young man offered a lot of promise of the future of the world.

And then "The Walking Dead" killed him in Season 8. In the final of the middle season, "what is it like," Carl of Rick Walker bite of the torso that he entered the previous, seemingly thrown scene. Or, as I would like Chandler Riggs Describe it on Twitter then"When you spend 3 years in the apocalypse, but die BC, you stumbled and fell."

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Carl's death, which was inevitable after discovering the bite in the finals of the 8a season, It was not concluded until the premiere of the 8b season, "Honor", and Where Carl shoots in his head to avoid turning into a stroller. The episode was not well accepted by the fans. They thought the show went down into porn porn, and wondered what the point was in all Carl's teenage stories if it didn't lead somewhere satisfactory. CARL CARL (who survives all the work) has his best bow in the story of whisperWhat the show has not yet done. Why kill him before he can really get time to shine?

"That is All It has to do with a bigger story for the season, "Showner Scott Gymple explain at the time. "Being is very obvious, the relationship of this terrible incident - this very intense story turns into a bigger story. I don't even have to answer because I know as you see it in the next half of the season you get. There is everything that happens during the rest of the season 8."

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After finishing the "The Walking Dead" season, it's easy to see what Gymple meant: Carl must share some dividing words with Rick before he died, and those words motivate Rick to spare Negan's evil life. You may claim that there were probably better ways to reach Rick to reach this point, but I suppose Carl's death at least did the job. Rick's decisions in the final of the season 8 lead to a tense postwar situation in the first half of the season 9 and paved the way for Attractive dynamics Maggie/Negan that led to your own spinoff.

The Creator of Comics, Robert Kirkman, also He defended the decision To kill Carl, even if that means you will need to change the big comics:

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"There are big, huge stories that you might think will be massively changed because of Carl's absence. But we knew that these stories have been coming for years. There are plans to do it all. Losing Carl doesn't have to mean that we will lose the big parts of the comic book story.

And, of course, Carl's future stories were absorbed quite flawlessly by the new Children's character Henry and, after the middle season jump of time, from Carl Jududit's younger sister (Kailey Fleming). I for one would like to have Carl around - just as I would prefer if Beth did not die unnecessarily in that hospital - But the last seasons of the show have at least managed to make the best of his absence.

The big rumor of Carl's death is that he descended the conflict behind the scenes between Scott Gymple and Chandler Riggs. Or, more precisely, between the father of Gymple and Chandler, William Riggs. "Seeing Gimpel's fire my son 2 weeks before his 18th birthday after telling him he wanted him in the next 3 years he was disappointing." Wrote Riggs At that time. "I never trusted Gymple or AMC, but Chandler did it.

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The theory in the random Dead Dead was that Gymple considered William Riggs hard to deal with and that influenced his decision. The other theory was that Chandler, to turn 18, had to pay more as an adult actor, giving the strict executive in AMC a financial incentive to kill him. Chandler Riggs also occasionally implies that all this controversy is his fault: When Reditor complained about his acting of the show's subdedit, Riggs answered saying"I agree. He later added: "TLDR: Yes, I sucked when it was important, but I am a good actor now promising please someone to hire me."

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But even years later, the show -the show claimed that they simply consider Carl's death to be the best choice for the whole story, not a reflection of Riggs acting skills or something that includes his father. Like Gymple explain at the time:

"This was a twist of the story, that's it. We didn't get a request (from any actor) or something. This has everything with the story. It is incredibly difficult to lose someone you've worked for as long as we worked with him. It was a really hard job. We hope to tell a story that is worth it."