“Within the script, it does not say that he is good. It says that Glenn is being torn aside.”
Season 6’s “Thank You” episode of The Strolling Lifeless had viewers down within the dumps after fan-favorite Glenn (Steven Yeun) was shockingly killed off because the sufferer of a zombie horde. Besides Glenn did not die. Whereas it appeared that Glenn was eaten alive after climbing on prime of a dumpster with Nicholas (Michael Traynor) — who shot himself within the head to keep away from such a destiny — the dumpster dive was a fake-out.
Because it turned out, the heart we noticed being torn out belonged to Nicholas — not Glenn. A month-long cliffhanger and 4 episodes later, the opening minutes of “Heads Up” revealed that Nicholas fell on prime of Glenn once they tumbled into the swarm of walkers… giving Glenn time to slide beneath a dumpster as Nicholas was devoured.
“Once I received the script for [‘Thank You’], often we received a reasonably large heads up if an actor goes to be leaving us. We might discover out a number of episodes upfront, or months upfront typically. For this one, we received no heads up,” Chandler Riggs, who performed Carl Grimes for the primary eight seasons, stated throughout a panel at Nickle Metropolis Comedian Con. “It is Glenn with the dumpster. And within the script, it does not say that he is good. It says that Glenn is being torn aside.”
“I bear in mind studying that and being like, ‘What?! Not but! We’re not there but,'” Riggs continued, referring to Glenn’s comedian e book loss of life in The Strolling Lifeless challenge #100.
Michael Traynor as Nicholas and Steven Yeun as Glenn Rhee – The Strolling Lifeless _ Season 6, Episode 3 – Photograph Credit score: Gene Web page/AMC
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Requested if followers might need had a distinct response to the dumpster scene if Glenn died for actual, Riggs stated, “It is a robust factor as a result of whenever you’re a fan of a present and also you’re supporting it, you do not need to be lied to or faked out. I really feel like there have been some circumstances the place there weren’t tremendous needed fake-outs and sort of tricking the followers. Like ‘I received you!’ Only for the sake of ‘gotcha’ and never inform you for, like, 5 weeks till the following episode comes out.”
After the Angela Kang-penned episode aired, then-showrunner Scott M. Gimple issued a press release on Speaking Lifeless that hinted there was extra to Glenn’s destiny. “Ultimately, we are going to see Glenn, some model of Glenn or elements of Glenn once more, both in flashback or within the present story to assist full the story,” Gimple’s assertion learn. Just a few weeks later, Gimple appeared on the aftershow to clarify that the uncertainty round whether or not Glenn was alive or lifeless was so audiences may really feel “the very same manner” as Maggie (Lauren Cohan), who questioned when — or if — her husband would return.
“The story we have been telling was one in every of uncertainty,” Gimple stated on the time. “When folks go away the partitions — on this case of Alexandria — they do not have cell telephones. They are not rocking ’80s beepers. You do not know what occurs. You don’t have any thought. Once they go away, that may very well be the final time you see them. And I feel it was vital to do a narrative this 12 months about uncertainty, and the viewers would share that uncertainty that the characters had, like in episode 5. Maggie did not know what occurred to Glenn, and I needed the viewers to be precisely the place she was, to really feel the very same manner.”
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