The Walking Dead Season 5: 10 Things That Need To Happen
5. Lots More Death
This is one of those demands that it's going to be pretty easy for AMC to fulfil. It's never going to quite be at the level of Game Of Thrones, but The Walking Dead has managed a few genuinely shocking character deaths in its time and at the start of every new season, most fan speculation revolves around who's going to die. And who's going to come out. It just so happens that this season the rumours about both seem to involve Daryl; killing the character off would certainly be a surprise, and a big dramatic twist, but with Reedus and Daryl being such a draw for audiences, it wouldn't really make much business sense for the writers to shuffle him off of his mortal coil. Which is a shame, not because Daryl should die necessarily, but knowing that certain characters "can't" die reduces the sense of threat in the show. The world of The Walking Dead is supposed to be relatively anarchic - society has collapsed, so anything can happen, but only if that anything relates positively to viewing figures and contracts. The introduction of new characters could nicely dovetail with a few of the old guard being bumped off, just to keep the audience on their toes. That'd be more in keeping with the comics, too, which will suddenly kill a character of all the time. "I get a lot of hate mail every time I kill anybody in the comic, which always aggravates me because its like, Its been a hundred issues! Dont you know how this is by now?" says series creator Robert Kirkman. "No one is safe."
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