Still, Greg Nicotero’s tease to EW that there would be an unprecedented vibrancy to the Kingdom is proof that not everything will be bloody and grim in Season 7.
We can bet that Ezekiel won’t be using his scepter to rouse the survivors into a chorus of song.
Sure, Negan will still have bashed somebody to death with a baseball bat, but at least there’s a fucking tiger named Shiva.
Few of us may have ever compared The Walking Dead to The Wizard of Oz unless we’re thinking of the time Rick and Co. almost got squashed by debris from a wind storm or wishing that a house would fall on a particularly irritating character.