Walking Dead Just Made Maggie's Son Its Carl Grimes Replacement
The Walking Dead draws a clear parallel between Maggie's son and Carl Grimes in season 11's «The Rotten Core.» When Negan hit a home run with Glenn's head in The Walking Dead season 6's finale, audiences mourned the loss of a firm fan favorite. As if forcing a pregnant Maggie to watch the ordeal wasn't dark enough, Negan also deprived Glenn of the chance to meet his son, and Hershel has grown up knowing his father only through stories he hears from Maggie and the other survivors. Since Lauren Cohan (Maggie actress) returned in The Walking Dead season 10, Hershel has enjoyed a more prominent role in events, and is now played by young Kien Michael Spiller.
When The Walking Dead's «The Rotten Core» begins, Maggie believes she left her son behind before heading out to help Aaron and Gabriel defeat a rogue unit of Lance Hornsby's Commonwealth soldiers. Hershel is apparently accustomed to his mother going AWOL for long periods, but this time he's not standing for it, and secretly joins the fight at Riverbend apartment complex. Easily Hershel's biggest episode thus far, his actions feel eerily reminiscent of The Walking Dead's original «zombie apocalypse kid» — the one and only Carl Grimes.
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After Hershel's presence is discovered, the youngster finds himself face-to-face with Negan. The precocious child doesn't take long to deduce this man is his father's killer, and Hershel promptly pulls a gun on Negan, who becomes helpless at this gun-toting kid's mercy. The entire sequence is a close riff on a memorable Carl Grimes scene from The Walking Dead season 7. Just like Hershel, Carl stowed away in a truck (belonging to the Saviors on this
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