The Walking Dead: Five Insane Theories (That Could Actually Happen)

With the season finale of AMC’s The Walking Dead upon us, fans have spent the last couple of weeks furiouslyspeculating as to what might become of Rick Grimes and his not-so-merry band of survivors. And while history tells us that the odds of the fans guessing exactly are basically nil, some of the theories have been pretty great.Here are some of our favorites:Zombie T-Dog bites the Governor“There’s stuff in the finale specifically that’s going to call back to the beginning of the season that will pay off for people who have been paying attention and are invested in the show. You don’t need to have seen it but your experience of the show is going to be much more rewarded if you watch the first-half closely. That type of storytelling and emotional payoff we’re going to give in the finale is exactly the thing that makes The Walking Dead so special and unique.” – Executive Producer David AlpertThis one is arguably the least likely in the batch, since T-Dog was attacked and consumed pretty thoroughly by that swarm of walkers and since there was a pile of lifeless meat on the ground that was implied to be him. Still, it’s hard to argue the appeal of a zombified version of one of our survivors taking down the threat–it would be emotionally satisfying to see a fallen “friend” get one last lick in, and doubly entertaining since a zombie wouldn’t even know they were saving the day.So we’ll leave T-Dog in the title here, since that’s how we saw it on Facebook, but know that really this is about any fallen survivor who hasn’t specifically been double-tapped already. After all, if they go out of frame to die, who’s to say what really happened, right?