Carl's death will have a "nuclear" effect on The Walking Dead, says Scott M. Gimple

Variety

“It’s nuclear in how it affects the characters, how it affects the story, how it affects their world moving forward,” the outgoing Walking Dead showrunner tells Variety. “The death of this character, this young hero…it creates the last sort of conversation of who these people are going to be and how they’re going to move into the future. It might be very tragic. It might be very hopeful. It might be somewhere in between. Not all the characters are going to respond the same way, and the tragedy itself makes it very difficult to hear Carl’s words and to act on them in a way that he wants.” ALSO: Chandler Riggs admits to a Walking Dead mistake.