The Walking Dead Season 8: 9 Things We Learned From SDCC 2017

3. There's Much More Action

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"We have all kinds of great stuff planned. Our next season… will be very action-packed and very fast-paced. I counted six explosions in the trailer alone." - Robert Kirkman.

Kirkman was joking on that last point, which he made during the panel, but the rest is accurate in terms of what we see in this trailer, and addresses a major complaint or two about Season 7.

There was a lot of talk about the slow pace things moved at, as the show gradually manoeuvred all the pieces into place for All Out War, while there weren't many big action set-pieces involving humans (though it did have some brilliant walker sequences).

The trailer paints Season 8 as something akin to one huge action movie, and while that's just to make it look as exciting as possible, it does also suggest that we're getting a lot more action this year. There'll be a number of battles fought, and it all looks rather thrilling.

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