Everybody is expecting something spectacular to end the season, huge surprise, a major turnaround, a last-minute game-changer, but what if the shock comes from the fact that there is no shock? What if the last human just keels over, dies, and that’s it? Game over.
It’s far too easy to say ‘they’ll all die’ but again, going down the route of something so obvious could be stunning in itself. The importance of manual labour is only going to rise, and the total number of manual labourers is only going to drop significantly, meaning we’ll get to a point in time where buildings cannot be rebuilt, farms cannot be sustained, safe havens will no longer be safe, and food will no longer be available. In this game of ‘survival of the fittest’, most of the rough, tough, murderous citizens left won’t be wanting any babies to bog them down, so again, eventually the human race will expire. Will we see it happen in TWD?