Plus, the comic story adds quite a bit more femininity at that point, with Maggie and other female leads taking on more plot agency, as well as the arrival of the villainous Whisperers, which are led by a complex woman dubbed Alpha.
Having Kang guiding those particular arcs and more could lead to some Walking Dead episodes that are unlike anything we’ve seen before, both visually and tonally.
Assuming, of course, that things play out somewhat similarly to the comics, where the All Out War is followed by a time jump and a renewed shift towards civilized society.
As a show veteran, Angela Kang is fully aware of the expectations and opinions that fans express on a yearly basis, and as the new driving force of the show’s post-Season 8 future, she will be taking the reins during another completely transformative period in The Walking Dead’s narrative.