Walking Dead’s Commonwealth Honors The Original Ending’s Complacency
The Walking Dead's Commonwealth complacency has exactly the same energy as the comic books' flashforward ending. As the final episode draws closer, The Walking Dead is entering a brand new phase. Having already jumped from the dangerous wilderness of its early seasons to Alexandria's relative safety, The Walking Dead is now graduating from those rudimentary corrugated fences to the full-blown civilization offered by Pamela Milton's Commonwealth. Unlike anything seen before in The Walking Dead's main show, the Commonwealth has a political hierarchy, a proper hospital with actual doctors, and annual holiday celebrations with all the pomp and circumstance of a pre-outbreak town.
The Walking Dead season 11's Commonwealth arc has more or less followed Robert Kirkman's comics thus far, but given the CRM's lingering presence in the background, the author's original ending looks rather unlikely. In The Walking Dead's final issues, Alexandria and the Commonwealth forge an alliance that eventually spreads over a large chunk of United States soil, restoring civilization for those lucky enough to reside within its walls. So safe is this sprawling new settlement, babies born there can reach adulthood without ever clapping eyes on a roaming member of the undead.
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Fast zombies and the Civic Republic might push that future out of reach, but season 11's Commonwealth honors the complacency found during The Walking Dead's final comic chapter. In Kirkman's (almost) idyllic flashforward, the likes of Hershel — son of Glenn and Maggie — are exploiting zombies as carnival attractions, capturing undead and charging folks money to see them, since zombie sightings are so rare.
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