'The Walking Dead' Season 6 has a puzzle and several time jumps

By Aarati Shah, Christian Post Contributor Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Season 6 of "The Walking Dead" has a puzzle for the audience to solve and unlike previous seasons, there are several time jumps. Show creators and executive producers Scott Gimple and Greg Nicotero teased viewers about the premiere episode and they hinted that Episode 1 is one of their 'riskiest scripts' they've ever executed.

Last season had a lot of different things to keep viewers excited – the taking down of Terminus, the emotional moments when the group was reunited, shocking deaths of major characters and hundreds of walkers. The creators have already claimed that the upcoming season will have a record number of walkers. So what is new this season?

In a video from ColliderVideos' YouTube account, Greg Nicotero, co-creator of "The Walking Dead," hinted that the Season 6 premiere is a bold departure from other premiere episodes and will have a puzzle that will have to be solved by the viewers.

He told Collider, "What I love what we're doing about the season premiere of this one is, it's bold. We want our audience to think and they get to put together the puzzle that we are presenting to them, knowing that by the end of the episode that they will have arrived at the conclusion that we want them to arrive at."

Andrew Lincoln, "The Walking Dead" star who plays Rick Grimes, revealed to Entertainment Weekly that the premiere episode will be "something that people are not going to expect." He further added, "I certainly didn't when I read it. And when we filmed it, it just grew and grew and it got deeper and deeper."

There are reports that the premiere episode will have not one but several time jumps. Nicotero, who directed the premiere, revealed that Episode 1 will have a "heightened action sequence" that the viewers will not be able to connect at first. But as the episode unfolds with the several time jumps, the viewer can put it all together in the end and figure out the whole thing. Nicotero says this will "allow the audience to put together in their own minds what it is that we actually just saw."