After more than a decade on our screens, the walking dead He put his point and end with a last chapter that has enjoyed the approval of the audience. A conclusion to, at least, the main story. As of now, a long list of spin offs of some of the characters will begin to follow one after another. And precisely because of this situation, the end of the most popular zombie series on the screens has had a different ending than initially planned.
In the episode aired on the walking dead we could see something similar to what lost, many years before, had already worked. A tribute to the first moments of a historical series and a review of the first scenes of the series. With nuances. Like the start of the series, we got to see Rick Grimes riding a horse in Atlanta. Later, and after resolving the events of the end of the series, we witness a time jump. One year later, with the children of Rick and Michonne and the rest of the survivors. Everyone looking to the future in different parts of the world, writing a diary.
However, this scene could have been much more different. Specifically, longer, but eliminated in the last cut of the production of The Walking Dead. advanced by insiders, the one-year jump we saw in the series finale was much bigger in its beginning. 10 years in time. In those scenes you could also see the children of Rick and Michonne, along with Rosita, Judith, Grace and Coco. All much older, of course. And all doing what their predecessors had already done: search for survivors. Also that with a moment reminiscent of the past of the series: Rick’s son listening to the radio. Also looking for survivors.
This is how they describe insiders the sequence you originally should have ended up with the walking dead.
After Daryl left, we headed to Freedom Parkway outside of Atlanta, where the iconic shot Rick’s descended from the pilot. He sees a van modified with ethanol, with a young woman and man in the front seats (in their twenties). And through the scene, we realize that it’s the adults RJ and Judith. Other adult versions of the children are in the back: Coco, Gracie, etc. They are out there, looking to escort survivors back to their communities. Carrying on the legacy of his parents. As RJ talks on the radio, he ends by saying, “If you can hear me, answer it. I’m Rick Grimes.” (Which, of course, is his name, and the line Rick said in the pilot.) We then end with the voice of a survivor responding, “…Hello?”
Why did you decide to end? the walking dead as we have seen it? It would not square with the plot that the production team has prepared for the Rick and Michonne spin-off series that we will see in the coming years.
For the production team, as they point out, although emotionally that ending could make sense as a closing of the circle, the reality is that it did not quite make sense for the plot. It featured new versions of characters that audiences were not emotionally attached to. So, finally, the scene was cut and left with the characters who for almost 10 years had passed through the walking dead.