The future does hang over them quite a bit, that this may be the last obstacle to the future that they desire. Rick’s got his swagger back, and he’s borderline optimistic: “There’s an exchange between Maggie and Rick, in which Rick says he can’t wait for tomorrow and that they can start tomorrow right now. Showrunner Scott Gimple noted to IndieWire Sunday the importance of the scene in which Rick talks to Maggie about the future. Chances are very high that the entire flash-forward is dreamt up by what we might as well call Bloodshot Rick. He says, “My mercy prevails over my wrath.”Ĭonsidering that the flash-forwards are brightly distorted and blurred, they feel like a saccharine dream that’s too good to be true. He’s sweaty, distressed, and totally bloodshot. AMC Rick Hallucinates This Future at the End of This SeasonĪll of these happy Old Man Rick scenes are intercut with another, more troubling scene featuring a crazy-looking Rick kneeling below a piece of stained glass. Is Old Man Rick the hallucination of Bloodshot Rick? Probably.
Since the trailer debuted, many of us asked these kinds of questions, but “Mercy” sets the record straight fairly quickly: Old Man Rick definitely woke up from his coma and experienced the zombie apocalypse. Was this whole zombie apocalypse thing just the dream of a comatose Rick? Did he spend years lying in that hospital bed imagining his own personal hell? It’s hard not to think of LOST when watching The Walking Dead these days, especially when the former dealt so heavily in flash-backs, -forwards, and -sideways. The Walking Dead plays with LOST imagery a lot in “Mercy.” LOST, of course, began and ended with the image of Jack Shephard’s face as he lay in the jungle of The Island, and most fan theories to this day grapple with whether or not The Island itself was some kind of purgatory. We saw shots of his cane and bed throughout the Season 8 premiere, but the main image of Rick lying in bed hearkened back to the show’s very first episode: “Old Man Rick” was first seen at the end of The Walking Dead Season 8 trailer that came out at San Diego Comic-Con in July. Old Man Rick's awakening looks a lot like his awakening from his coma all that time ago.
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