The Walking Dead released international promos focusing on individual candidates, asking, “Who will meet Lucille?”
At this point, if you’re unaware of the details surrounding the cliffhanger controversy of The Walking Dead going into the hit AMC show’s seventh season, then there’s a good chance that you think the Alexandria Safe Zone is an Egyptian embassy. However, for fans of the show who passionately (albeit angrily,) count down the days until the Season 7 premiere resolves the mystery of which survivor Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s debuting big bad Negan head-bashes with his barbed-wire bat Lucille, sweet respite is still over two months away. Thus, this recent series of teaser promos probably won’t help… but you’ll watch them, anyway.
Indeed, these new individual character teaser trailers run by TV-ONE, who air The Walking Dead internationally, will probably be seen by viewers still irate over April’s cliffhanger tease as salt in a never-healed wound. Each of the 11 members of Rick Grimes’s zombie apocalypse survivors lined up at gunpoint by Negan’s group the Saviors get a temerity-teeming teaser treatment, implying possibility that said individual might be the one to “meet Lucille.” While viewers generally have the possibilities whittled down to a rarefied few, these promos are attempting to implant the mental nugget of doubt, suggesting that the victim could be anyone.
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From both the standpoint of the reveal having the proper dramatic gravity and the inside baseball variables, it is generally believed that the victim will be either Steven Yeun’s Glenn, as was the case in the original comic book sequence, Norman Reedus’s Daryl, meant shock viewers with the violent death of a perennial fan favorite or Lauren Cohan’s Maggie, in a prospectively brutal death dealt to a pregnant woman that would undoubtedly prove that TWD is not playing around. Of course, they could shock fans even further by offing un-killable protagonist characters like Andrew Lincoln’s Rick or even Chandler Riggs’s Coral – I mean Carl.
Check out these promos and decide for yourself!
So, what did you think? Have you emerged edified about the cliffhanger quandary? In the very least, has your appetite been whetted for the answer? Or, do you feel a bit exploited, like a hungry dog staring at a juicy steak dangled above you just out of range? Probably the latter, going by the ire that was induced upon the April 3 airing of the Season 6 finale “Last Day on Earth.” There, viewers were teased with a disturbing victim-point-of-view perspective shot of Negan’s bountiful bludgeoning of a seemingly random Rick follower that didn’t have the courtesy to reveal the victim’s identity. However, the long national nightmare of TWD fans will soon be over.
The Walking Dead will address the ultimate bloody barbed-wire bat gorilla in the room when it returns on AMC on October 23.
