Although followers nonetheless haven’t seen The Strolling Lifeless: Daryl Dixon’s third season simply but, we already know the curtain will shut on this explicit upcoming TWD present with its fourth season, as that information was introduced throughout this yr’s Comedian-Con. Realizing that storyline is ending is a fear to followers who’re hoping past hope that Norman Reedus will get a long-awaited on-screen reunion with Andrew Lincoln’s Rick Grimes. I’m nonetheless optimistic it’ll occur, regardless that the actor’s newest feedback concerning the problems do make quite a lot of sense.
Seeing Carol and Daryl again collectively once more helped Season 2 rebound after that main dying we nonetheless haven’t totally gotten over but, however these characters had been destined to share the display as quickly because the spinoff was first conceived. The truth that the characters are in Europe made it unattainable for both to drop by through the solo season of The Strolling Lifeless: The Ones Who Dwell, even when that finale did function a few reunion-specific visitor stars. However may there be a degree the place the storyline permits the characters to cross paths anew?
Talking with SFX on CinemaBlend’s Darren Scott, longtime TWD star Norman Reedus addressed probably reuniting with former Strolling Lifeless-verse co-stars, and regardless of being personally within the concept, he addressed why it’s not as simple as throwing all of them collectively in the identical setting, and why it’d occur in a different way from the idealized model in followers’ minds. As he put it:
I’m all for it. It simply must be executed in the correct manner and I do know Andy [Andrew Lincoln] feels the identical manner. We will’t simply make a present and get all of them collectively one way or the other. It has to suit organically. To be sincere, the characters aren’t the identical characters as after they had been collectively. They’re utterly completely different. Daryl’s relationship with Rick wouldn’t be the very same relationship they’d six years in the past. All these characters have developed.
Norman Reedus
Would not that be the most important pisser conceivable to be a Strolling Lifeless fan who has caught it out for all these years, and whose greatest popular culture need is to see Daryl and Rick tag-teaming as soon as extra to take down a horde of walkers, just for them to see one another once more and never get alongside in any respect?
The extra chaotic aspect of my persona would truly benefit from the hell out of that final result, sinc eit would probably create a singular dynamic for these characters that would not simply arbitrarily have them on the identical aspect simply due to their historical past collectively. Daryl and Rick did get into it fairly closely earlier than the Season 9 bridge explosion that left Rick’s destiny a thriller, so regardless that Daryl spent years making an attempt to trace his buddy down, it is attainable that discovering him will not essentially result in an ideal rekindling.
Reedus continued, telling SFX that he additionally does not suppose Daryl and Carol’s exploits in Europe can simply be concluded by simply jettisoning them again to the U.S. In his phrases:
We’re fairly robust over right here in Europe proper now. The community promotes the exhibits as The Strolling Lifeless Universe, in order that they kind of put them collectively. However individually, our present is way completely different than these different exhibits. I don’t know that you could possibly simply backtrack us from Europe and have it match simply in that world. I’d like to see these characters in a room once more, I’d personally like to see these guys once more, but it surely must be in a manner that works.
Norman Reedus
Now, for all that I can perceive the logic behind Norman Reedus’ clarification, I additionally suppose that there’s certainly no less than one strategy to get Rick and Daryl again collectively once more in a manner that not solely appeases followers but in addition works contained in the narrative parameters with out their respective adventures inflicting any strife.
Showrunner David Zabel beforehand talked about having a reunion plan that was mentioned with Reedus, and through the TWD: Daryl Dixon panel throughout San Diego Comedian-Con, he defined that the spinoff’s story was supposed to final 4 seasons, and that the ending was put into place early on within the artistic course of, saying:
It was all the time the plan to have this arc. . . . It ends in a really particular manner.
David Zabel
It would not take a complete lot of creativeness to learn into Zabel’s feedback as probably teasing an ending that brings Daryl and Carol again into the lives of different acquainted TWD characters. (Except, after all, he is hinting at one or each of these characters dying, which might make the entire reunion concept barely more durable to tug off efficiently.)
Earlier than any of that may play out in full, although, we nonetheless want Season 3 to reach on the 2025 TV schedule. Talking of…
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The Strolling Lifeless: Daryl Dixon is among the many listing of thrilling upcoming horror TV exhibits, and Season 3 will arrive on AMC beginning on Sunday, September 7, 2025.