Click through to check some of Twitter’s reactions to Carl Grime’s unnecessary, unforgiveable, inexcusable death. (Photo: Release)
The Walking Dead had me crying like it was the Pearson family! (Photo: Twitter)
Please die, but don’t. (Photo: Twitter)
Silenced gunshot was THE hardest moment of last night’s episode. (Photo: Twitter)
SOMEBOYD SEDATE ME! (Photo: Twitter)
I’m the Walking Dead inside. (Photo: Twitter)
Still not ok. (Photo: Twitter)
Who’s cutting onions? (Photo: Twitter)
Still worth every dang tear. (Photo: Twitter)
No shame, though. (Photo: Twitter)
He was in the show since he was 10 years old! (Photo: Twitter)
Carl’s death hurts, but he was still sometimes the worst. (Photo: Twitter)
My boy’s been through a lot. (Photo: Twitter)
True that. (Photo: Twitter)
I don’t know if I should laugh or cry about this… (Photo: Twitter)
CORAL! (Photo: Twitter)
The real reason why Carl’s death hurts so much. (Photo: Twitter)
Protect the Atlanta 3 at all costs. (Photo: Twitter)
And Beth, but we’ll know she doesn’t count #SorryNotSorry. (Photo: Twitter)
Even if you only watched one episode, Carl’s death still hurts. (Photo: Twitter)
KILL EUGENE NOW! (Photo: Twitter)
Thanks for wrecking my calm Sunday, TWD. (Photo: Twitter)
Y’all know we’ll keep watching. (Photo: Twitter)
Scott M. Gimple, you’re dead to me. (Photo: Twitter)
What is you doing sweetie? (Photo: Twitter)
Just… why? (Photo: Twitter)
I’ll be ranting about The Walking Dead for the next few days. (Photo: Twitter)
Tears of boredom. (Photo: Twitter)
What can save the walking dead? An expiration dead. (Photo: Twitter)
TBH… (Photo: Twitter)
SPOILER ALERT—but not really, though. We all knew this was coming.
Two months ago, at the end of the midseason finale, Carl Grimes revealed a walker had bite him on the stomach. Understandably, fans of NBC’s hit series—or the ambling shadow of itself that it now is—were left shocked by the show’s latest twist, but were still hopeful there was some miraculous way to save Rick’s brave (and a lot of times annoying) son.
Oh, but there wasn’t.
Yesterday’s premiere of the second half of TWD’s eight season was an episode all about how Carl—a.k.a. Chandler Riggs—gradually met his inevitable dreadful end. Carl’s slow-motion passing contained a sense of warmth, sentimentality and loss that has sometimes gone missing from the show. But that doesn’t mean fans were happy about it.
We don’t care if this vile goodbye is a sign of hope. It doesn’t matter if Carl’s demise is a wake-up call for Rick. We don’t give a tinker’s dang if there’s vengeance. There was no need to kill Carl, and his death is a tragedy fans won’t recover from.
Check some of Twitter’s reactions to Carl Grime’s unnecessary, unforgiveable, inexcusable death in our photo gallery above.
