The Walking Dead may defy a lot of writing conventions, but not even The Walking Dead could possibly finish a season with a big old striped Chekhov’s gun still waiting to go off.
We’d been watching Shiva growl and bare her teeth for fifteen episodes, and showrunner Scott Gimple promised that we wouldn’t have another crazy cliffhanger at the end of Season 7.
Thankfully, we got a Shiva unleashed, and some of the most rewindable moments of the entire series came courtesy of her in all her violent glory.
I was going to call some serious shenanigans if we didn’t get to see Shiva in the thick of the fight in “The First Day of the Rest of Your Life,” and not just because the promos for the finale pointed toward her getting in on the action.