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Who Negan killed in the season finale?

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Days after airing its most talked-about episode of the current season, AMC announced it has given a seventh season to its hit zombie apocalypse series “The Walking Dead” and a sixth season to postmortem chat series “Talking Dead.”

“The Walking Dead,” which is based on Robert Kirkman’s Image Comics series and is showrun by Scott Gimple, continues to be a ratings behemoth for the cabler. After factoring in three days of time-shifted viewing, Sunday’s episode — which saw the end of at least one pivotal character — delivered 18.2 million viewers, with 12 million adults 18-49 and 11.5 million adults 25-54 in live+3 ratings. It was up across the board vs. the third episode of last season, according to Nielsen.

Sunday’s episode also served as a strong lead-in to the drama’s corresponding “Talking Dead” series, which is hosted by comedian Chris Hardwick. That episode became the chat show’s highest-rated episode ever that was not a premiere or a finale. It delivered 7.3 million viewers, with 4.6 million adults 18-49 and 4.7 million adults 25-54 in live+3.

“Thank goodness someone had a Magic 8-Ball with them in our many long internal meetings about these renewals. When, on the third shake, ‘without a doubt’ filled the murky blue screen, we knew we had to proceed with new seasons of ‘The Walking Dead’ and ‘Talking Dead,’” said Charlie Collier, president of AMC, SundanceTV and AMC Studios. “All joking aside, we are so proud to share these shows with fans who have been so passionate, communicative and engaged. We are grateful for and continually impressed by the talent, effort and excellence on continuous display by Robert Kirkman, Scott Gimple, Chris Hardwick and the many people with whom we partner to make these unique shows possible. The result: More Walking and Talking. Hooray.”

“The Walking Dead” has come to define AMC beyond prestige dramas “Breaking Bad” and “Mad Men,” and is also credited for ushering in the current wave of comic book-centric programming throughout the TV landscape. The cabler is continuing the trend with the upcoming “Preacher” series from Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and “Breaking Bad” alum Sam Catlin.

The zombie juggernaut also recently spawned its own hit spinoff, “Fear the Walking Dead,” which set a cable record for the highest rated first season ever. Its 15-episode second season will air next year.
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Always found it interesting that in the first few episodes the zombies could run, then later that was changed to them shambling along. :p
 
Gerard said:
Always found it interesting that in the first few episodes the zombies could run, then later that was changed to them shambling along. :p
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They're all rotting, they don't have the muscles for it any more :P

This season has been great so far. I had almost lost interest in it last season til the end.
 
As has been said though, they are decaying. They're trying to show this with how emaciated some of them look. The majority of zombies in a horde will have been zombies for a very long time now.

The first season, they were all fresh zombies.
 
I presume it does, eventually. I'm not sure what you mean about the zombies in the other show, do you mean that they don't behave the same?
 
To me it just seems to be something they tried and then realised it would be easier for the cast to escape situations if the zombies moved slower, like traditional zombies.

In fear the walking dead they also move slowly so the decaying thing really hasn't much to do with it.
 
Gerard said:
To me it just seems to be something they tried and then realised it would be easier for the cast to escape situations if the zombies moved slower, like traditional zombies.

In fear the walking dead they also move slowly so the decaying thing really hasn't much to do with it.
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Well logically, something so emaciated is going to have difficulty moving quickly. I presume that's why they're bothering to include emaciated zombies at all. Otherwise it wouldn't make sense to put that effort in.
 
spoffle said:
Well logically, something so emaciated is going to have difficulty moving quickly. I presume that's why they're bothering to include emaciated zombies at all. Otherwise it wouldn't make sense to put that effort in.
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Well the ones that are just "zombified" are shambling along in fear the walking dead, there's a few scenes where you see them getting up after being turned and just shuffling along. The emaciated ones i suppose just shows they've been around a long time.
 
I'm thinking it might have something to do with getting a taste for flesh. If you look to Michonne's docile zombie companions. They can't eat so they lose their aggressive tendencies. Maybe those tendencies increase with feeding?

So the zombies we first see will have had loads of flesh to consume out of the general population at that point, thus be more aggressive and mobile.
 
I figure it was more to do with keeping consistency with what people are used to seeing in TWD over every series barring the first.
I imagine that if they had fast moving fresh zombies in FTWD, people would be all like 'Yeah! Why can't they be like that TWD?'.
 
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