‘The Walking Dead’ season 5: Robert Kirkman addressed big Andrew Lincoln – Rick theory
Earlier this week, a rumor about “The Walking Dead” first started to come to light via Uproxx, which is the same site that really worked to heavily promote the whole “Megan Draper is Sharon Tate” theory with another AMC series in “Mad Men.” Their theory? That Rick is in a coma, and actually imagining the events with the zombie apocalypse on the show. As always, they tried to read into some events as evidence of their theory.
Well, comic writer / executive producer Robert Kirkman clearly wants to nip this one in the bud, posting a message on Twitter telling everyone not to buy into such speculation.
Going on record to answer this: http://t.co/3lhUI6A3bW Rick is NOT still in a coma. The events of TWD are definitely happening.
— Robert Kirkman (@RobertKirkman) October 24, 2014
We appreciate Kirkman, and understand why he’d want to distance himself from any theory that sounds like the end of “Newhart.” At the same time, this is a slippery slope. We much prefer to leave the speculation open-ended, rather than have the creator / showrunner / executive producer / anyone in a top position telling you what is true and what isn’t. That’s why we believed that David Chase never should have said at all whether or not Tony Soprano was alive or dead at the end of “The Sopranos.”
To Kirkman’s credit, he did eventually choose to have a little bit more fun with some of the rumors.
But Carl and everyone else are all imagined. He actually NEVER found his family. He's been crazy since he killed his first zombie. #joking?
— Robert Kirkman (@RobertKirkman) October 24, 2014
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