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The new leader needs to be:


Negan. That's the show's best option now that Carl is gone.

If done right it could work.

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No, it wouldn't. That's a sure way to definitely kill the show. Which, now that I'm thinking about it, it's not that bad a thing...

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Norman Reedus has already accepted the top spot with a pay raise to go along with it.

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I don't see why they can't just recast Rick. It's been done before. Could come up with some explanation as to why his face is different.

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I wouldnt like a Rick re-cast...just kill him, or more likely 'outcast' him and Andrew can still do a guest spot or two

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Outcasting him is the best option.

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Make him the community representative and send him out to recruit like Aaron used to do. Then he could pop back in from a "long journey" in the last few episodes of the series.

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That's a good solution. But just imaging any scenario in which Rick is not leading the group, is a show-killer. Let alone have him be a guest or killed off.

Andrew, Norman, Jon Bernthal and Michael Rooker, they carried this show. Rick is literally the face of it. No Rick, no show.

Actually, I never thought it would come to this point. I always thought that if it ever happened that Andrew wanted to leave the show, they would have the common sense of just ending it. But they are too greedy for that now.

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I thought the same thing. I guess it could have made some sense continuing on with Carl and it becoming his story, but I've always been in the camp of believing that it was Rick's story and wanted it to end with him, dead or alive.

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Lol. But how could they explain his face change when they live in a zombie apocalypse?

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Wampa attack.

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This deserved MUCH more love than it got.

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Lol thanks. It would have in the old days.

There's no way to mass alert all the old IMDB posters to come here. I wish we could.

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You don't explain it. Soaps and sitcoms have doen it for years.

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