10 TV Moments That Were Almost WAY Darker
3. Carol Was Almost Killed Off (7 Seasons Ago) - The Walking Dead
Look, we all loved The Walking Dead’s T-Dog.
And it broke our collective hearts when the meme-able fan favourite character was offed midway through season three, a killing which stood out as brutal even on a show as relentless as The Walking Dead (okay, so it was no Glenn but come on, what is). But believe it or not, the episode Killer Within was almost far darker.
Whilst T-Dog was originally intended to live and meme another day, the seemingly immortal Carol was going to be killed off in the first draft of The Killer Within, a move which would have left fans unsure whether anyone was safe. After all, even ten seasons in it still seems as Carol alone is unkillable amongst the show’s cast, and whilst we were sad to see T-Dog go, the episode would have been a much darker affair were it not for the intervention of her fellow actor Sarah Wayne Callies.
Carol’s character has diverged from the show’s source
material, Robert Kirkman’s Walking Dead comic series, more than most of the
cast. By now it’s hard to imagine the show without her as a vital central
figure, so it’s just as well the creators decided against offing her as early
as the show’s third season—Sorry, T-Dog.