The end of the excellent season 10 finale centered on Sunday’s Negan Living Dead it felt like the beginning of something big – and possibly the revival of a great evil. (Read the full recap here.)
What was with that horrible smile that the reformed villain (?) Shot at Maggie, the protagonist that he had become a widow? Can we have another flashback to find out how Laura went from being a selfless benefactor to a ruthless Salvador? And how the hell did the show take Negan’s excuse for the murder weapon he named in honor of his late wife, Lucille? Here to tell TVLine everything – well, at least most – is showrunner Angela Kang.
TVLINE | Let’s start at the end. I translated that look that Negan shot Maggie as he reentered Alexandria as, “Watch out, baby, Bad Negan is back!” That’s how we were supposed to catch?
[Laughs] I interpreted it as: “Okay, I heard that you’re going to kill me, but I promised my wife that I would be brave, so I’m here and you’re going to have to deal with it. We are Both going to have to deal with it. ”It’s not necessarily like” I’m mean “, but more” I have a right to be in this space “. Each is defending his position and this can lead to a conflict between the two.
TVLINE | I suspect that this is moderate. But does Maggie truth to kill Negan? Because she already had the chance …
She did. I think Carol’s instinct [in warning him] is that this is not going to be easy for either of them and it can become explosive. Before, Maggie had all the power, because she was behind bars. But Negan is walking free now. And you know, she showed no mercy when she left him alive in prison. She was like, “He’s miserable. He can stay in prison forever. This is almost Better than watching him die! “But the whole situation is turned upside down now.
TVLINE | What did Negan mean when he told Lucille that he would make her fight for her now?
For him, this means that he needs to go out into the world and do things that scare him. What was The scariest thing for him was to accept that his wife was going to die and he would have to do it without her. Now, what is difficult for him – and we try not to be too cranky – is the idea of having to be in the same space as Maggie and discover what his shared traumatic past means to move on. He doesn’t like to deal with that kind of thing. It is easier for him to make a joke or just make a brutal decision. So for him, [doing Lucille’s fighting means] claiming a place in society and discovering what he wants to be in the future.
TVLINE | Do you realize how much the viewers kind of wanted that apology for Negan having christened his baton in honor of his wife?
[Laughs] You know what? We stole it from the comics, because it’s just a really weird moment that is so memorable. I was like, “We really have to figure out how to do this” – because it is so weird, right? It is strange that he named the bat after her! But what’s cool is that when you have an actor like Jeffrey Dean Morgan doing it, all of a sudden, this bizarre “Wow, a man is really apologizing to a bat” becomes a kind of whimper he’s counting on to his wife everything he loves for her, and it’s really like … I believe! We hoped it would work, and it did, until Better than I expected.
TVLINE | I had no idea that Laura would be in the episode until boom, there she was. Could there be another episode of the backstage in Season 11, perhaps to explain how she became a savior?
I can’t say never because we are still working on parts of the season. But I think most likely no. This is not to say that there will be no iteration of this backstory, however, in something else, because there are other things fermenting in the universe all the time.
TVLINE | Was it difficult to resist the temptation to give us a little glimpse of the Community?
We have a different way of entering [that arc from the comics] In the show. So, knowing that we would have things coming, we thought: “We are just going to keep everything clean, because we have a plan for how all of this is going to happen”. [Plus,] we were looking forward to finally making a version of “Here’s Negan,” because we’ve been trying to find one for a few years.