#THE WALKING DEAD SEASON 9 WHISPERERS HOW TO#
#THE WALKING DEAD SEASON 9 WHISPERERS TV#

While I obviously can't speak for all fans, I've been extremely pleased by the way The Walking Dead has teased out the Whisperers' story so far. Fingers crossed, we succeeded a little bit.

#THE WALKING DEAD SEASON 9 WHISPERERS HOW TO#

And so that was sort of our philosophy in how to tell the story. It's trying to capture that sense of delight and the feeling of being intrigued and scared.

That was really the spirit with which we went at it. Can't be beat.' Then he'll come up with something new, and you go, 'Okay, that was pretty great.' Then when we got to The Whisperers - you know, we were reading the Whisperers comics while we were making one of the seasons of the show, and just literally going, 'What? What's happening?! What's he doing?' And so like, that's really the feeling that we wanted to try to capture within the show itself. And every villain, I'm like, 'Okay, well this is the best storyline. I think Kirkman does an amazing job plotting out these comics. Saying how big of a fan she was even before a Walking Dead writers job was in the cards, the showrunner continued: I asked Angela Kang about adapting The Whisperers for television after all of the other popular antagonists that have been brought to the show.

Meanwhile, Jesus had indeed been attacked by the Whisperers on the page, even taking one of them captive, but did not die in the process. In the comics, Dante escapes the Whisperers' barn attack, while two random guards get killed off.

#THE WALKING DEAD SEASON 9 WHISPERERS TV#

Except the TV show wisely used Daryl, Jesus, Eugene and Aaron here, as opposed to lower-tiered characters. 'Evolution' was more or less an expansion of Issues #131 and 132 of the Walking Dead comic book. The two big bads have some very interesting moments with Negan in the comics, along with other characters, so we'll just have to wait and see if Negan's new lease on freedom will take him their way soon. The cold and calculating Alpha is set to be played by Samantha Morton, who has most recently been winning over fans and critics on Hulu's Harlots, while Sons of Anarchy and Bates Motel vet Ryan Hurst will portray the domineering Beta. It's assumed that we'll get to hear some much-welcomed exposition about the group's intentions whenever viewers are formally introduced to its leader, Alpha.

Its members speak aloud sparingly, and Rick isn't around anymore to serve as their humanist antithesis. I'm anxious to see how the show will inform viewers of all of The Whisperers' ideals and behavior choices. He didn't, you know, wear a well-crafted walker suit in order to stab someone in the dark. If people did the shit he asked for, and didn't gun down a bunch of his minions, then he was pretty good about letting them live. As deadly as the leather-clad leader and his Saviors were, Negan did maintain a loose sense of justice during his reign. The Whisperers' bestial nature makes them a more feral and unpredictable threat than Negan was. They do what they believe, you know, and what they believe can be brutal. After all, вЂњCrying is weak.They're not really a group that just kind of talks about a thing and doesn't do stuff. Alpha hands her head to the man and kills him too when he starts whimpering. The woman doesnвЂ™t want to fight, but Alpha says itвЂ™s too late before decapitating her. вЂњThe challenge isnвЂ™t his, itвЂ™s yours,вЂќ she says, noting how she put the rebellious idea in his mind by the stream. As Beta holds him at knifepoint, she faces the woman. So the man does, but Alpha turns the tables.

If a Whisperer doesnвЂ™t like the way the Alpha is running things, however, they are allowed to challenge for leadership. People follow her, she adds, by choice, because she makes them strong. Alpha says it was worth it since now they know where Hilltop is and how much supplies they have. The man calls her out for going back to save her вЂњcubвЂќ even though itвЂ™s not their way and it put the group in danger. HeвЂ™s speaking with Alpha, whoвЂ™s going on again about how they live as nature intended (only the strong survive and such), when sheвЂ™s approached by those two Whisperers conspiring with each other by the brook. Henry is tied up to a tree in the center, watching all of this play out.

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