![]() TVLINE | I was really looking forward to Daryl and Connie’s reunion, and then… it seemed kinda… friendly. They need some space from each other, so he’s not wrong in thinking that. He’s openly said that he wishes he’d killed them all. Even knowing that he has made some moves to redeem himself, he’s never apologized to her. And for her, it’s just too painful for her to be around him. He’s never going to feel comfortable around her, because he doesn’t trust that she won’t change her mind and go rogue again. I think what is true is that these two people, at this point in the story, cannot live in peace next to each other. ![]() But I think he believes in his heart of hearts that he is right. TVLINE | Do you think, in your heart of hearts, that Negan was right, that Maggie would have eventually made the decision, “Yup, I’ve gotta kill him, too”? The storylines start to diverge from what our original intention was, so we sort of chase the new storyline. That happens frequently, like when one of our cast members takes a job and leaves the show or takes a hiatus. But by the time she did, it felt like the characters had sort of evolved along different tracks than they would have if she’d been there the whole time. But we changed gears at a certain point because Lauren left the show for a while, and we knew she was coming back at some point. Not Dante himself - we obviously used him in a different sort of context, as we do sometimes. He was originally cast as a Dante-like character. TVLINE | Was there ever any consideration of Alden becoming what Dante was in the comic books - a post-Glenn love interest for Maggie? ’Cause that’s what I initially pegged him as. She was hoping that there would be, but the reality was, they all had to pay heavily for the war they undertook. It leaves her questioning, like Daryl is, is this all there is to life? Are we doomed to kind of be fighting to the death all the time? It didn’t feel totally right for there to be just a reward at the end of this. In some ways, it highlights for her that it’s sort of this thing where you win and you lose at the same time. Yeah, we talked a lot in the writers’ room about Alden, like, when Maggie leaves him behind, does she know that he’s dying and they’re never going to see him back? Or is there something to coming back to him? Ultimately, we felt that there needed to be a consequence to how injured he was by the Reapers. “Nope, even doing all the hard stuff, it still won’t go well for you.” But since he died, it felt like it was being piled on her. Had he lived, it could have affirmed that Maggie was on the right path, making impossible choices. ![]() TVLINE | The timing of Alden’s demise struck me as interesting.
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