'The Walking Dead' Season 8 Spoilers: Chandler Riggs Makes Exit Official With a New Hairdo
While fans are yet to see Carl (Chandler Riggs) bite the dust in "The Walking Dead" season 8, his grim fate is already sealed.
The end of Carl Grimes will take place in the midseason finale next year. Some fans are not convinced about it despite everyone on the show saying it is the end of the line for Rick's (Andrew Lincoln) son.
Riggs, however, provided the final nail on the coffin. The actor took to Twitter to show off his new look sans the long locks, which he sported on "The Walking Dead" in the past few seasons.
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From what it looks like, Carl never got a haircut on the show even though he had the chance. The actor had to keep the long hair because of this too. Now that the character will be dead soon, Riggs finally chopped it off.
Since he had the shaggy mullet for years, Riggs admitted that this new look will take some getting used to:
I feel so exposed. Like a naked mole rat or something.
During "The Walking Dead" season 8 winter finale, it was revealed that Carl was bitten during his run-in with a group of walkers while trying to get Saddiq (Avi Nash) to Alexandria, which occurred two episodes prior.
A lot of fans are furious about the latest victim the post-apocalyptic world of "The Walking Dead" claimed since it made a drastic deviation from the comics by Robert Kirkman. This is to the point that they petitioned to get showrunner Scott Gimple fired.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Riggs, who admitted that he thought he would never see the day Carl dies (at least not this soon), explained the reasoning the executive producer had for killing his character.
In the comics, Scott was trying to figure out why there was a hole between Rick slitting Negan's (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) throat at the end of the "All-Out War" arc and then there's the time jump and Negan is alive and in prison and Rick didn't kill Negan. Scott was trying to figure out how to bridge the gap between Rick not wanting to kill Negan and Rick also really wanting to kill Negan, which he does right now [in the show's story]. Scott's way to get around that was to make Carl this really humanitarian figure and person who could see the good in people and see that people can change and not everyone out there is bad. That's what Carl's talk to Rick was in this episode: There's no way that they can kill every one of the Saviors and not everyone is a bad person and there has to be some way forward than just killing people.
"The Walking Dead" season 8 returns Feb. 25 on AMC.
