Contains mild comic spoilers and spoilers for both TWD & FTWD, including future speculation on a character remaining on TWD.
I think there is a definite path in the wake of Carl's death to see where TWD and FTWD are going and the answer is a definite collision course with one another that might actually revive both. Let's start with TWD.
The rest of this season deals with the issue of the war with the Saviors and culminates with Rick choosing to honor Carl by not killing Negan. Instead, Negan is overthrown and imprisoned, probably in the cell Morgan built in Alexandria. Most of the remaining Saviors roll with this and the war is over. Rick, the Widow (or Jesus/Aaron, if no Maggie) and the King (along with whoever is running Oceanside by this point) are now the allied force in charge of the Saviors-- which includes all of the Saviors' various widespread outposts. Rick, for all intents and purposes, now runs Negan's operation. The allied group of leaders works to form councils, laws, trade agreements, etc.... most of this during a time jump of about 3 or so years, until we reach the time of Real Six Year Old Judith.
Over on FTWD, we've also jumped time. We are now at a point of sometime after All Out War in TWD timeline. Morgan has survived the war, becoming the first character ever to say "I don't die" and actually not make that ironic. In the wake of this season of TWD, Morgan is one of the characters dispatched by Rick to go off exploring and find new allies for the Alexandria and Cohorts. Rick, in trying to honor Carl, is out there looking for any lonely person who needs a home as well as any non-crazy group who might want to become trading partners with the Virginia communities. During the time jump on both shows, we see that the Virginia communities have been really successful-- expanding far beyond even Negan's original outposts and creating a series of thriving communities and something even resembling an overarching form of government. (Each community functions as a state but perhaps they are even basically re-forming a kind of United States along the way with certain laws that all the communities agree to abide by and maybe even a central judicial system of some kind that arose after the war.) Now strong individually and collectively, the Virginia communities have been expanding and their scouts are now as far away as Texas. This is how Morgan encounters characters we've already met on FTWD.
FTWD left their characters intentionally separated at the end of last season. We only saw Madison escape alive but it was a safe bet that all the majors (Alicia, Nick, the unkillable Daniel Salazar, the best character on the damn show Victor Strand) are still alive. Alicia and Strand were last seen together as were Nick and Salazar but both of those groups are separated from one another and Madison. This sets up story for Morgan to not encounter all of them at once and keeps every character from FTWD from getting in the back of a truck and driving with Morgan to meet Rick and the gang. We watch Morgan get to know these characters and, in the process, we see how much they've changed during their time jump. FTWD begins to use flashbacks to illustrate how characters evolved into the ones we're seeing now. It's entirely possible that most of them have been separated from one another for a big chunk of time on FTWD and have, as a result, become very different people. What if, say, Madison and Strand haven't seen each other in a few years? (But Strand and Alicia have formed a community?) What if Nick, without any tethers to anyone, goes off the deep end and starts the tv show version of The Whisperers? (Alpha and Beta could be other characters-- in a whole other plot, even.) At the very least, the idea of having Morgan meet Salazar alone is more interesting than most of either show has been in awhile.
So, on FTWD, we'd watch Morgan team up with old characters, plus Dharma and Shannon from LOST and all these other new people they have over there to build towards a crossover with TWD. Inevitably, some group from one of these shows is going to be antagonistic and considering that there's no way to end All Out War at this point without Negan imprisoned and Rick on a mission to honor Carl by giving peace a chance, the antagonists are going to come from FTWD. So, everyone who has speculated that we've been watching the evolution of a bunch of villains on that show for awhile now... it's looking like you're very much on point. (Especially since, Alicia excepted, the most morally sound of the bunch-- Travis, Ofeila, the nice brother from the ranch-- are not really in that world anymore.)
Syncing up the timelines then allows for easy crossovers of characters between the shows and eventually sets up for the possibility of cancelling one of them. If this doesn't boost ratings on FTWD, then they can lifeboat all the good characters off of that show by putting them on the main one. If TWD has a mass exodus of original/pivotal cast members that doesn't just end with Carl and possibly Maggie, they can cancel the mothership and have any remaining cast members guest on FTWD. Considering that we speculate that contract negotiations might be about to come up over the next couple of years that could see TWD lose Rick, Michonne, Daryl, and Carol, it would be wise of AMC to start blending together one show out of these two as soon as possible before the only character left standing on TWD is Judith.
TL; DR: TWD ends this season by imprisoning Negan. Rick & Co. take over the Saviors' territories and time jump before next season. During time jump, they've expanded and send out other characters in need of a plot to find other potential trading communities/interesting new characters. Morgan is one of these scouts. Over on FTWD, they've jumped time as well. Morgan meets the FTWD characters & other new ones. Shows blend and AMC has successfully turned FTWD into its Chicago PD.
Submitted March 01, 2018 at 01:38AM by maryssmith http://ift.tt/2F1m1M9
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