My "Walking Dead" Negan Theory

I have a theory about “The Walking Dead.”

Obviously—Spoiler Alerts are about to abound, so beware.

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Maggie and the Baby are goners.

Here’s my logic:

It starts with Andrew Lincoln saying reading the script for the finale made him so upset he called out of work the next day.

Now, there’s a lot of awful shit that’s gone down on “The Walking Dead,” and he said this is the first time he’s ever been that upset.

That means we’re going into uncharted territory—

Babies.

When “e.r.” first premiered, the rule was, they couldn’t kill children, because it would be too upsetting.  Then, as time went on, they had to, because people were used to adults dying, and they needed to up the stakes.

So far, we’ve heard about children dying on The Walking Dead, and we’ve seen zombie children, but the winter premiere was the first time we’ve seen zombies kill a kid.

And THAT wasn’t what Lincoln was talking about when he said he needed a day off.  He was talking about the season finale.  That means whatever happens in the season finale is more upsetting than what happened in the winter finale, and that’s gotta mean some pretty fucked up tomfoolery.

Okay, put a pin in that.

Now, let’s go to the will-they-won’t-they with Glenn.

Honestly, Glenn’s relationship with the producers and whether or not they’ll kill him is the new Ross and Rachel.  There’s been teasing and hinting, but so far, it hasn’t happened.

And I don’t believe it will.

For one thing, I have to believe they wouldn’t bring him close to death that many times and then save him only to kill him exactly the way he dies in the comics.  They rarely ever kill people exactly the way they die in the comics on this show anyway, so he might die eventually, but I doubt it’ll be at the hands of Negan.  Although it’s clear they really, really want us to think that they’re going to kill him.

The fact is—they can do something worse than kill him.

They can hurt Maggie.

Okay, now put a pin in that second thing.

What’s one of the worst things (if not the worst) that’s happened in the comics that didn’t happen on the show?  Something so bad we all breathed a sigh of relief when it didn’t come to fruition?

Yup—the Governor’s raid resulting in the death of Lori and Judith.

We were all hoping not to have to see that.  And at that point in the series, I doubt they could have gotten away with it without really driving away viewers.

But now it’s three years later, and if anything, they need to push the envelope.  People have been waiting for Negan.  Whatever he does when he appears is going to set everything in motion for Season 7.  It’s gotta keep people talking all summer long.

Would killing Glenn achieve that?

I don’t think so.

But killing a pregnant lady?  In a maybe graphic and horrifying way?

Well, let me just say that I firmly believe “The Walkind Dead” is in a quiet war with “Game of Thrones.”  And I think when the WD producers saw the “Red Wedding” episode of GOT a few years ago, and the social media explosion that ensued, they quietly thought to themselves—

We’ll show you fuckers how it’s done.

So unpin everything and let’s see what we have.

Negan shows up, maybe acts like he’s going to take out Glenn with the bat, and instead, beats Maggie to death while everybody watches, including Glenn.

And then maybe he kills Glenn too, just for the hell of it.

If that happens, then…fuck.

That would make me call out of work too.