OK, before I get into anything, keep in mind that spoilers for the season finale of The Walking Dead season finale are incoming.
Spoilers on the way.
Really, stop reading now if you haven't watched it yet.
OK, that's about enough of that. So how about that season finale! Rick's alive. Daryl's alive. Carl's alive. Pretty much anyone you heard was going to die - yeah, they're alive.
So what did we learn in this new episode? (All gifs coming up thanks to UpRoxx)
Rick is a badass
In case you forgot amid his early-season farming escapades and barely-alive ambling after taking the beating of his life from the Governor, Rick is a boss. Don't mess with him. He will quite literally rip your jugular out of your throat with his teeth and spit it out (suck it, Joe!).
Doesn't that look an awful lot like a cross in the window? Well, that would kind of make sense since Daryl and Beth were at a morgue of sorts. But it could also signal the appearance of Gabriel, the preacher from the Dead comics. It would certainly be a much different reveal for him, but the time period fits based off of the comics. When the (very differently-constructed) group found Gabriel in the comics, they were being chased by the hunters and used his church as sanctuary. Maybe the morgue was being used as a trap by the Termites and Gabriel forcefully took Beth to "save" her. Or...
2. Beth is dead: That car taking her was actually a Termite taking her to Terminus to be eaten. If that's the case, I'd be willing to bet that the show gives a shout-out to the Walking Dead game with a reveal moment like this (after all, you have to keep your human meat alive nowadays to stop it from turning):
Of course, it could just be:
3. I'm totally wrong.
But I'm thinking Beth is either going to touchingly be alive or gruesomely be dead.
And lastly, and probably the most important:
What's next after Terminus?
I mean, obviously these guys are going to get out of there, sooner or later. Do they start blazing a trail for Washington, D.C.? That would seem to make the most sense, since you know once Rick finds out about Abraham's mission to get Eugene to Washington his hero drive will kick in big time. Things get really crazy once the group gets to D.C. in the comics (and there's at least one reveal on the way there that, if they translate it to the show, will make you very angry), so that would be the logical next step since the show follows the comic's lead, if not 100% by the book (which is a good thing).
What do you think? Have some theories about the new season? Think mine suck? Let us know in the comments!
