One month down, five to go before Season 5 of "The Walking Dead" premieres. That seems like eons away but hopefully the endless amount of spoilers, theories and rumors will keep you satisfied. When Season 4 ended, Rick Grimes and Co. were trapped in a train car inside Terminus, the home of the cannibals.
It was never confirmed that Gareth, Mary and everyone else at Terminus were "man-eating freaks" but it's definitely been speculated. Robert Kirkman had previously said that fans of the show should watch and re-watch the finale in order to find out what Season 5 will be about.
He said the finale held some important clues that could have been missed the first time around. As fans know, the AMC show is based off the Walking Dead comic books and could also hold some clues about what's expected.
As MTV pointed out, the Season 4 finale and the comics shared a lot of details. For instance, in both the comics and the TV show Joe and his group of "Claimers" caught up with Rick and his mini-group. In the comics, Rick was on the road with Carl and Abraham (on the show it was Carl and Michonne) when they ran into the Claimers.
In both comic and TV show, one sick man tried to rape Carl but for different reasons. On TV, Joe was mad at Rick for killing one of their men; in the comic Joe had "claimed" the road and wanted Carl in return.
Despite the slight differences, the bloody battle was the same: Rick ripped out the leader's neck with his teeth and killed the guy trying to rape his son. Another thing the Season 4 finale and the comics share are the cannibals. In the written version, Rick and his group realize they are being stalked by man-eaters; on TV they were lured to a place thinking it was a safe haven from the zombie apocalypse.
Fans connected the dots between Terminus and the cannibals early on when Gareth, the leader, imitated the exact same pose Chris (leader of the Hunters) did in the comics. Now this is where things get tricky and the comics and the TV show start to separate from one another.
In the books, Rick and his team sneak up on the Hunters at their home and kill them in a horrific and bloody battle. On the show, they are trapped in a train car with no weapons. The one bright light that something very bad is going happen when Season 5 returns is that TV Rick utters the same line that comic Rick uttered before going to war.
Do you think Rick already has a plan? Will Tyreese ad Carol (with baby Judith) come to the rescue? How do you think the group can escape Terminus?
