Given the criticism season seven of The Walking Dead has attracted, many fans feel the show is in need of renovations and a time jump may just provide such a remedy.
The Walking Dead season eight premieres this Fall on AMC.
With that said, time skips can sometimes be difficult to execute successfully in a live-action medium.
Gimple’s comments regarding the interesting things that occur in the skip’s intervening years suggest that The Walking Dead‘s ninth season could employ flashback techniques in order to tell the stories that took place in the time between seasons.