AMC teases The Walking Dead season 8 episode 9 and beyond

The Walking Dead season 8 episode 9 is premiering on AMC next month, so what better way to prepare for it than seeing everything that the network has to say? Today the folks behind the scenes released a full list of what you can expect to see in the second half of the season, and it includes so much more than just what is going on with Carl. You’ve also got big stories ahead for the likes of Enid, Aaron, Rick, and Negan as the show tries to figure out what the next phase of its run is like. The all-out war that has been hyped for so long is going to continue. However, it will do so in some unexpected ways and with new characters’ fates hanging in the balance. There should be a great deal of excitement that goes along with this, but also fear. This show can and will do anything — they’ve shown that.

(Yet, you can also argue that doing “anything” for the sake of a show, including killing a character like Carl, isn’t always the best move.)

Take a look at the full synopsis below for the rest of The Walking Dead season 8 — it does a very good job of making it clear how much there is still to be excited about as we push forward.

All out war has had a devastating impact on every person involved. The communities themselves are fractured. Alexandria has been destroyed, the Hilltop finds themselves pinned, and the Kingdom is shattered — half of them dead, the other half controlled by the Saviors.

At the very center — Rick, having been distracted by the conflict, has just returned home to learn that Carl, who heroically shepherded the Alexandrians to safety during Negan’s attack, has been bitten by a walker. Once his sole motivation in this otherwise stark existence, Rick is forced to deal with this reality. Carl has always been a beacon of hope, a symbol for the remaining thread of humanity — lessons that the survivors around him would be wise to take with them as this war surges onward.

But Rick isn’t the only person who’s living in peril. Aaron and Enid are in a dire situation at Oceanside — unclear if they’re in friendly territory, or if they’ve just made new enemies. Father Gabriel will do his part in attempting to smuggle Dr. Carson safely back to the Hilltop and a pregnant Maggie is wrestling with the many moral gray areas that come with leadership during war. In a standoff with the Saviors, she must decide how to proceed with the dozens of POW lives she’s currently in control of, as well as new complications that come with being a leader.

In addition to the war, Negan continues to deal with struggles within his ranks as workers, traitors, and others’ thirst for power cause conflict at the Sanctuary. Having gifted the Saviors a major victory, Eugene’s loyalty is repeatedly tested as new obstacles present themselves.

Sound interesting? We are grateful to get that much information going into it, but the biggest issue that The Walking Dead really needs to address in the immediate future is one regarding the series’ overall pace. It took ultimately far too long to really get going on the first half of season 8; the Carl incident was absolutely exciting and a shake-up, but that came eight episodes in and there weren’t too many episodes that were tremendously exciting beforehand.

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