To preface this, I know that this topic has come up before, but I really couldn't find anything that specifically addressed this thought I have been having. It is very likely that the show goes through with the comic timeskip, either in the midseason break of Season 8 or before Season 9.
Pardon my math as I am working with general estimates of days/week to simplify things.
According to the wikia (which hasn't updated the show timeline since "A Rock in the Road) up until that point 634 days have passed since the outbreak. Being overly generous and for the sake of simplicity, let's say that the Season 7 finale occurs on 10-15 days later, so day 645-650. This is ~ 1 year, 10ish months since the outbreak. The comic book timeline is actually shorter than this, putting the Season 7 finale events at day 603, or ~ 1 year, 8ish months after the outbreak.
Now, we know that Carl started out younger in the comics and the show and was retconned into being older to make the narrative make more sense. However, that still puts post timeskip Carl in the comic somewhere between 13-15, younger than Chandler Riggs who is playing pretime skip Carl as between 13-15.
Everyone is just assuming that the show will stick with the 2 year time jump in the comics. However, wouldn't it make more sense to increase the time jump to 3 or 4 years? World wise, this would allow for really developed "New World" settlements. Strategically, aging Carl to between 18-20, Judith to like 5, and Maggie's baby to between 3-4 allows them to advance forward with seasons and not have as huge of an issue with timeline. This also gives them more room to explore the more explicit content between Carl and Lydia, if they choose to, because I find it very unlikely that AMC would sign off on that content if the character of Carl is still supposed to be a minor for fear of rustling the wrong jimmies.
Submitted April 27, 2017 at 09:11PM by katiedid05 http://ift.tt/2oC5qXi
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