Over the past couple of seasons, The Walking Dead has developed a particular love of time jumps. First of all, season 9 skipped ahead 18 months from the end of season 8. Then, when Rick Grimes went missing, presumed dead in episode 5, things hopped forward a whole six years later, finding our survivors in a very different place. Things have remained steady since then, but as we head into season 11, we may be due another major – and I mean, major – time jump.
Sources – the same ones who previously told us that a Scream reboot was in the works and Ryan Reynolds had a secret cameo in Hobbs & Shaw – have informed We Got This Covered that fans should prepare for the biggest time jump yet in TWD season 11. We’re hearing that, at some time during the next run of the show, another leap into the future will take us forward 15-20 years.
Clearly, this concept is inspired by the final issue of the comics. Last summer, creator Robert Kirkman shocked us all by ending the book with issue #193, which jumped forward 25 years and introduced a world where society had got back on track and zombies were no longer a threat. If the series was to faithfully adapt the comics, though, it would have some 20 issues to get through before it reached that stage, so clearly the finale time jump is going to be reimagined for TV.
For starters, it won’t be just a one-and-done thing and we’ll get to fully explore a rebuilt civilization. Kirkman himself recently teased that this was a possibility for the show in an interview with Hey Fandom, explaining that he thought there was a lot of potential in the final issue that he believes could fuel a bunch of fresh storylines on screen. But, remember, from what we’ve been told, season 12 could be the series’ last.
I’d speculate that this time jump could occur later in season 11, as there’s some material that needs to be tackled first before they switch things up again, including that crossover with Fear, but we don’t currently know for sure when it’ll be deployed. Let us know whether you like the sounds of this possible latest shift in The Walking Dead status quo in the comments.
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July 16, 2020 at 06:32AM