The Walking Dead: Robert Kirkman Addresses If Fake Killing Of Glenn Was To Judge Audience's Reaction

The Walking Dead had a controversial season six amongst its fan-base. Right now, the hot topic is [...]

By Brandon Davis

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The Walking Dead had a controversial season six amongst its fan-base. Right now, the hot topic is the debate over who Negan killed in the season six finale but that comes with an argument over whether or not the cliffhanger was acceptable in the first place. The frustration with the season's ending were only fueled by a couple of fake-out deaths earlier in the same season. Not only was Daryl Dixon dramatically shot in the penultimate episode but a four episode arc in the first half of the season framed Glenn Rhee is being dead only to return later.

Fans have theories about all aspects of the show's story but now they're starting to come up with theories about why the showrunners and writers choose to execute them in the manners which they do. At Hawaii Comic Con, one fan asked The Walking Dead's writer and creator Robert Kirkman if he only faked Glenn's death to gauge the reaction in preparation for Negan's deadly introduction. Kirkman staunchly told the fan is was, "Definitely not," for those reasons.

"When a show has been around as long as The Walking Dead has been around, it's just a matter of trying to do things that are different," Kirkman explained. "The thing was, Scott [Gimple] and I are always hearing, 'Please don't kill this character,' Why did you kill this character,' 'Bring this character back.' And we thought, 'How would this work if a character was to die and be brought back?'"

Furthermore, Kirkman explained he and Gimple's reasoning and approach to the big mystery of season six's first half. "It was really just an exploration of how we tell stories and the things that we're doing and trying to avoid tropes and things like that," he says before calling it "somewhat of a storytelling experiment."

Glenn's fake death should serve as no indication of who Negan killed, though. "It wasn't in any way any kind of precursor or any kind of future thing for fan expectations and what not," Kirkman concludes.

The Walking Dead will return for its seventh season in October.

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