The fifth season of the hit show "The Walking Dead" hasn't even started filming yet, but a number of spoilers have already made the rounds among fans and netizens alike. It doesn't help that these clues have come from the stars and creators of the show themselves. Their marketing team probably drummed this strategy in their heads, to ensure that the show will continue to gain audience's interest even while off air for the meantime and open with high ratings.
"Show creator Scott Gimple has been teasing fans about the upcoming season and in a recent interview with Larry King, Gimple dropped hints at raining love in zombie land," International Business Times noted. "He also said that the show will take a different path when the survivors try to escape the Terminus."
"The story that we're telling demands it. We're not going to shy away from character, but the balance will be a little more towards action," Gimple shared.
Well, what's a zombie show without action?
"I would say that Daryl has already found familial love. If you're talking romantic love, I'm going to say, 'I think so,'" Gimple added. Sounds promising!
Gimple said he's not into doing a death just for the shock factor. Is he pointing a finger at "Game of Thrones" by saying that?
"People shouldn't live to shock people, either. It's all just part of the story and it should serve the story," Gimple continued. "And really, looking at it and playing out the stories, death didn't really serve the story we were telling. And then it was like, 'Whoa, well that means nobody's gonna die in fifteen or sixteen!' And then it was very much like, 'Well that's - awesome.'"
When asked directly by comicbookresources.com on what to expect, Gimple replied: "I can say, from a vibe point of view, the first eight of Season 4 were one thing, the second eight were something very different," he began. "These next eight are going to be something very different again. Things are just going to have a much different tone and a much different practical reality moving forward."
"The season has a number of shifts of location, and even of the tone. But the tone for most of the season is very, very, very intense. [It's] going to be very different from the last half-season, and I loved the last half season, but it was always planned out in my head that there would be these big shifts, and we're about to have one of those big shifts," he concluded.