Daryl & Rick’s Potential Strolling Lifeless Reunion After 7 Years Aside Addressed By Norman Reedus

Norman Reedus, star of The Strolling Lifeless: Daryl Dixon, has addressed the potential for a reunion between Daryl and one of many franchise’s most beloved characters: Rick Grimes. At this yr’s San Diego Comedian-Con, it was confirmed that The Strolling Lifeless: Daryl Dixon is slated to finish after season 4, with Daryl and Carol’s (Melissa McBride) European journey set to proceed within the subsequent two seasons.

With Daryl Dixon seasons 3 and 4 each confirmed to be happening in Spain, it stays to be seen how, or even when, Daryl and Carol will discover their means house. As such, although followers could also be holding out hope for a reunion between Daryl and The Strolling Lifeless‘s main man, Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), there is a robust probability it will not occur. Reedus defined why he does not suppose it might be a good suggestion throughout an SDCC interview with IGN:

“We’re very conscious of [theories Daryl Dixon will end with a reunion]. There’s so many concepts thrown round from followers for all this stuff. I feel generally it’s higher to do the alternative of what individuals anticipate, so that they’re stunned. If we simply learn what followers needed on a regular basis and gave them what they needed, you then would know the end result of every part. So, generally I feel it’s higher to inform your story. Folks can prefer it, argue, hate it, no matter, however you don’t need to simply learn Twitter, you recognize what I’m saying?”

What Does This Imply For The Strolling Lifeless: Daryl Dixon?

Is There Room For A Reunion Inside The Strolling Lifeless Franchise?

Since Daryl’s story on The Strolling Lifeless‘s flagship present ended with him going to seek for Rick and his accomplice Michonne (Danai Gurira) earlier than he washed up in France, it stands to purpose that the spinoff would finish with a reunion between the three characters.

Nevertheless, if, as Reedus suggests, that is not the case, there’s nonetheless an opportunity their reunion may occur some place else down the road as The Strolling Lifeless franchise continues to evolve. On the Strolling Lifeless: Daryl Dixon panel at SDCC, Reedus hinted that, whereas Daryl Dixon will finish with season 4, bringing Daryl and Carol’s Spanish journey to an in depth, Daryl’s story is probably not over but:

“It is going to enable us to finish the story of Daryl and Carol in Spain. It will full this a part of the journey. It is the final season of this iteration of this present.”

If Daryl Dixon ends with Carol and Daryl’s secure return house, a unique spinoff or “iteration of this present” may decide up the place he left off, reuniting him with Rick and the remainder of his household, who discovered one another once more and loved a uncommon, completely satisfied ending within the last episode of The Strolling Lifeless: The Ones Who Stay.

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The Strolling Lifeless: Daryl Dixon is confirmed to be ending with season 4, which is able to see Daryl and Carol’s journey in Europe come to an in depth.

Andrew Lincoln and creator Scott M. Gimple informed Leisure Weekly after the finale of The Ones Who Live aired that they’d be open to persevering with Rick and Michonne’s story if there was ever a adequate purpose to. Would bringing the bare-bones stays of The Strolling Lifeless‘s core solid collectively be sufficient of a purpose? Lincoln appeared to suppose so.

“It is undoubtedly going to go someplace, but it surely would possibly simply be in my mind. It’d simply be my fan fiction,” Gimple informed EW, whereas Lincoln stated:

“By no means say by no means. There are different essential characters within the universe which are nonetheless wandering round and alive, that I feel it may be fairly thrilling to have them breathe the identical air and see how lengthy they survive collectively. However it’s a tough one. It must be like this, a very thrilling story.”

Our Take On A Potential Daryl And Rick Reunion

It Would Be The Finest Means To Finish The Franchise

Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon in The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon next to Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes in The Ones Who Live — Customized Picture by Yailin Chacon

The way forward for The Strolling Lifeless is presently unclear. As soon as Daryl Dixon ends after season 4, the one different mainline present presently confirmed and left on the slate is Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan’s (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) The Strolling Lifeless: Lifeless Metropolis, which has been renewed for season 3. Will that be the place the franchise ends, although?

The Strolling Lifeless is likely one of the longest-running, sprawling, and most profitable TV franchises on the market. It deserves a correct, emotional, and cathartic ending.

The Strolling Lifeless is likely one of the longest-running, sprawling, and most profitable TV franchises on the market. It deserves a correct, emotional, and cathartic ending, and bringing Daryl and Rick again along with everybody else once more, in whichever (last) spinoff which may be, will surely go an extended strategy to making a memorable and genuinely satisfying finale for The Strolling Lifeless’s storied historical past.

Scott Gimple, who not solely serves as showrunner and creator but in addition oversees the creation of The Strolling Lifeless franchise, has beforehand acknowledged that he’d like to convey the spinoffs and The Strolling Lifeless‘s characters collectively once more sooner or later. Throughout an interview with ScreenRant, Gimple stated:

“I’ve stated again and again that my dream for a few years, the plan all alongside in some ways, has been to see these characters cross, whether or not it’s in small methods or large methods.”

Rick and Daryl might but have their reunion. First, although, Daryl and Carol must survive one other struggle towards a treacherous gang in Spain in The Strolling Lifeless: Daryl Dixon season 3.

The Strolling Lifeless: Daryl Dixon season 3 premieres September 7 on AMC.

Supply: IGN on YouTube