Why Negan Returned Explained By Walking Dead Season 11 Showrunner
The Walking Dead season 11 showrunner Angela Kang explains Negan’s return to the show. Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s bad-guy-turned-good appeared to have exited TWD forever after wandering into the woods following Maggie’s Reapers massacre in the season 11B premiere. But season 11, episode 13 executed a twist by having Negan return under the most unexpected circumstances.
The Walking Dead season 11’s timeline indeed is becoming somewhat convoluted and hard to follow, but the main story of episode 13 “Warlords” takes place six months after Negan’s departure. The action this time centers around the Commonwealth recruiting Gabriel and Aaron to make contact with a community of religious fanatics holed up in a crumbling apartment complex. It’s soon revealed however that the “make contact” ploy is a cover for some secret Commonwealth activities cooked up by the shady Hornsby and his crony Carlson. Amid the ensuing chaos at the complex, Negan suddenly comes bursting out of the woods with a woman named Annie, and sends a message to Maggie via a fleeing Jesse to come and help Gabriel and Aaron.
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Negan’s unexpected arrival on the scene may have been good news for Gabriel and Aaron, but there are some TWD fans who may think it’s bad news for the show to have Negan back. Appearing on Talking Dead after the airing of “Warlords,” showrunner Kang at least gave the reasoning behind Negan being back in the story as a member of a new group (via Comicbook.com):
«When we left Negan, and he walked off and he left Maggie, we really felt like that was finishing the arc of, 'I want to be a joiner now, I want to be part of this group, let me redeem myself, let me prove
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