Last night's episode was great we finally had Rick's wife Lori reveal to her husband that she had sex with Shane and that she is pregnant. We've been waiting quite some time for one of these major plot points to surface, and instead of one coming to light, we got two. Surprisingly as well was Rick's reaction to the news of Shane being with Lori. He seemed to take it quite well, in a very mature way, but I doubt that is how he'll be once he interacts with Shane, which should happen on the finale next week.
Kirkman says in the interview that the audience can expect a little shock. I'm going to speculate that next weeks episode will be the last one for Shane. From what we've seen of the commercials for next week is that Shane is head to the barn, I'm gonna assume Rick shoots Shane to prove to Hershel that he respects the rules of the farm, and secretly to get a little payback.
Why did you decide the time had come for Lori to ‘fess up to Rick about sleeping with Shane?
ROBERT KIRKMAN: It was something we wanted to wrap up to a certain extent. It’s a disservice to Rick’s character to make him look like he’s completely clueless. But this isn’t really a resolution per se. It makes things a little bit more tense, moving into this next episode. Seeing Rick interact with Shane will have an extra level of tension because now the audience has one up on Shane as opposed to one up on Rick. It’s going to be fun waiting for the other shoe to drop, when Rick may or may not confront Shane with this information.
But you must be aware that, if Lori does proceed with the pregnancy, there will be people who claim that is a pro-life plot line.
Sure. That’s the risk that you take with this kind of stuff. But I think that avoiding that in order to avoid any kind of controversy is weak storytelling. There’s always going to be a controversy of some kind no matter what you do. People have opinions, and that’s what makes them great. You can’t write a story trying to avoid anything like that because the most mundane thing can [turn into] overblown Internet hysteria. You’ve just got to do what you do.
To readers of the Walking Dead comic, like myself, it now seems as if Shane is part of two love triangles.
To a certain extent, yeah. The relationship between Dale and Andrea hasn’t really quite blossomed just yet, like it did in the comic book series. But there are certainly hints there that that may be something on the horizon. So, yeah, if you’ve got a relationship, Shane would like to screw it up!
Can you tease next week’s midseason finale?
There’s a lot of big stuff out there that we will be wrapping up to a certain extent. In the writer’s room we were fully aware that we were coming up on this hiatus, so we definitely wrote to it. I think people are going to be a little shocked.
The Walking Dead airs Sundays at 9pm ET on AMC.
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