The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
Warning : spoilers in advance for The Walking Dead : The Ones Who survive episode 1 .
Summary
The Walking Dead : The Ones Who Livepulls no clout , using its opening night second to accommodate a brutal comic book bit that the independent show advisedly avoided . Across his nine season on zombie Book of Revelation duty , Andrew Lincoln was able to wreak many of Rick Grimes ' defining comic book moments to liveliness in live - natural action , albeit with one major skip . When Rick ’s group first encountered the Governor in Robert Kirkman ’s laughable taradiddle , the villain chopped off Rick ’s hand - just to make a point . From the prison arc to the precipitation of the Commonwealth , therefore , comic - Rick was fighting exclusive - handed .
AMC’sThe Walking DeadTV show never followed through on Rick lose a hand . Despite numerous teases , several closemouthed calls , and constant foreshadowing , Rick still had both deal by the timeAndrew Lincoln leftThe walk Deadin season 9 . Negan had an opportunity to do it , Rick offend his hand naughtily while fighting Jadis ' spiky gladiator living dead , and Andrew Lincoln from time to time tire out bandage on his right hand as nods to his comic counterpart . The Walking Deadnever took those hints further , butThe Ones Who Livehas other ideas .
The Walking Dead keep the zombi computer virus ' origins privy for over a decade , but a World Beyond post - credits fit explained how TWD outbreak began .
Rick Finally Loses His Hand In The Ones Who Live Episode 1
The Ones Who Livebegins with Rick Grimes serving as a " consignee " forThe Walking Dead ’s Civic Republic , earning his position in the biotic community by nail a six - year period of menial body of work , clear zombie and such . Rick would rather return to Alexandria , but CRM policy forestall his exit , entail Rick ’s articulatio radiocarpea is tethered to a CRM soldier whenever he gets sent to well-defined zombies . One failed escape endeavour seesRick use his trusty axe to cut back off his tethered hand and make a run for freedom . He stops to burn the wound , and CRM guards get up shortly enough .
Aside from the scene ’s placement inThe walk Dead ’s timeline , The Ones Who Livemakes several other key change to Kirkman ’s source material . Rick remove his own hired hand , rather than feature it cut off by a villain , which speaks to how much Andrew Lincoln ’s character has season since the zombie outbreak begin . Perhaps because Rick gets to transfer his own hand , he naturally take his remaining , less prevailing , hired hand , whereas the Governor by design separated Rick from his gun trigger - pulling right hand .
Theories that Rick would finally lose a helping hand stand up after The Ones Who Live ’s poke was released . The footage forfend present Rick ’s left hand , by from one scene where Rick is tethered to the CRM soldier .
Because Rick drop off his mitt far earlier in the risible Word of God , many chapter passed before he had the resources to replace it with a right prosthetic attachment . Thanks to the CRM , however , Rick gets a false hand almost immediately inThe Ones Who Live .
Why Rick Didn’t Lose His Hand In The Walking Dead
It simply was n’t hard-nosed forThe Walking Deadto adapt the moment Rick Grimes turn a loss his right handin the comics for TV . Doing so - specially as early on as the Governor ’s debut in season 3 - would have created problems for writers , who would invariably have to calculate for the change , and the prop department , which would require to consistently find ways of covering up Andrew Lincoln ’s still - very - much - attached real hired hand .
speak at SDCC in 2011 ( viaDigitalSpy ) , Robert Kirkman admitted that Rick losing his hand in the comics cause headaches as the serial publication advance , and convey his notion that the TV adaptation should avoid the same misunderstanding . Certainly , whatever problems Kirkman encountered while writing hisThe Walking Deadcomic would have been amplified in a alive - activeness environment with cameras and real doer . SinceThe walk Dead : The Ones Who Liveonly runs for six episodes and reportedly has abumper budget for aWalking Deadshow , the narrative gain of Rick contract off his own hired hand perhaps outweighed the drawback .
source : DigitalSpy
Episode #
Episode Title
Release Date
1
" Years "
February 25
2
" blend "
March 3
3
" Bye "
March 10
4
nameless
March 17
5
March 24
6
March 31
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