Hey youtubers it’s Charlie and since the Terminus people on Walking Dead have been
outed as Cannibals I wanted to do a bonus video explaining the Hunters in the Comics
since they’re very similar.
It’s also possible they could be doing some scenes from the Tainted Meat storyline in
Episode 2.
So I’ll explain those when I post my Review tonight.
New Round of the Giveaway starts when I post that too.
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The show also cast two new characters that I’ll explain at the end of this video.
So careful for spoilers through the premiere, but as mentioned.
The Hunters are a group of cannibals in the comics.
They’re not exactly like the Termites but they appear in issues 61 through 66, so if
you want to read along in the comics you should check out Volume 11 Fear the Hunters, it combines
all those.
Their leader is named Chris and they’re a small band that preys on people instead
of hunting animals because they think people are easier to catch.
As a group they might be a little worse than the Termites, they ate their children.
The Termites we know ate each other, if you remember the kill floor in episode 1.
Scott Gimple confirmed that the body being chopped up here was Gareth’s brother.
Still somehow eating your own children sounds worse than eating your adult brother.
So the Termites aren’t quite as bad as the Hunters.
In the comics, Rick and the Survivors run into the Hunters on their way to Washington
DC, they don’t say exactly where they are on the map.
But it’s somewhere between Atlanta and DC in the middle of nowhere, like the woods we
see around Father Gabriel’s church here.
It’s also around this time that they run into Father Gabriel in the comics, so just
more evidence that they’ll do some Hunter-Related moment on the show.
Chris and his Hunters start chasing down the survivors and it turns into a hunt or be hunted
arc.
Andrew J West, the actor who plays Gareth is very similar to Chris.
The jackets they’re wearing even look alike.
After the finale last year he was upgraded to cast Regular.
They only do things like that if they intend to feature a character in most of the episodes
during a season.
So if you’ve read the comics, I think they will change some things from the Hunters storyline.
It’s possible that Rick and the Survivors could capture Gareth and he would become their
prisoner.
Michonne has her katana here, so it’s possible she takes it off the body of a dead termite.
Father Gabriel’s church is one of the big locations from the comics, and from the way
it looks here.
It’s possible the Survivors could use it as bait for the Termites.
Hunt or Be Hunted.
I think they’ve even been using that language in the promos.
Scott Gimple already said that there would be villains this season to rival the Governor.
He didn’t say there would be another governor character, he just said their would be people
or a person that’s just as evil.
I don’t think he was talking about Gareth, since he’s kind of a cannibal hipster.
And Hipsters are mostly harmless.
Feel free to make all the evil hipster jokes you want.
I do think they will adapt some of the Hunter moments but I think Gareth is a much bigger
character than Chris.
If you have read the comics, just please use spoiler tags if you’re going to talk about
what happens at the end of their storyline.
The whole arc in the comics mirrors a lot of the changes I think we’re going to see
in Rick’s character.
Since he’s the conscience of the group, naturally everyone else starts to adapt with
him.
Hunt or Be Hunted.
So they all slowly learn to be Hunters.
Not cannibal hunters like the Hunters group.
But you get the idea.
They just stop being such easy prey for people like the Termites.
The whole arc of The Hunters in the comics is fairly self contained, but it’s a crucible
that everyone walks out of looking way more badass.
If you remember Rick at the end of season 4 when he bit into Joe’s Neck and they killed
all the Claimers.
It’s just the natural progression of that.
This is going to be a big season for Andrew Lincoln.
It makes me wonder how long he’ll stay with the show.
He’s not getting paid crazy money compared to say the Big Bang Theory actors, but I think
he could stay till the main show goes off the air.
I don’t expect the actors from the main show to appear on the companion show.
That’s just what they’re calling the spin off that’s going to start next year.
Which reminds me, two new characters were just cast.
On the main show that is.
For Season 5.
Alexandra Breckenridge is going to play someone named Samantha.
That’s not someone from the comics, but just like Gareth, she could be like someone
from the comics with a different name.
Her character description reads: attractive, strong, smart, charming and articulate woman
with a vulnerable side.
She's a mother with a bohemian spirit, and a talented artist
She’s not going to appear for a while.
They just cast her in the last week and they’ve
already shot the first half of the season.
So we probably won’t see her till next year.
You might have seen her on American Horror Story, she usually plays some sort of temptress
with really gruesome consequences.
But that doesn’t necessarily mean she’s going to be having sex with Rick or anything.
If they do make it to Washington DC by next year, it’s possible she could be one of
the new characters in the Alexandria Safe Zone.
They are casting another character named Donna right now, but they haven’t picked an actress
yet.
Supposedly Kate Burton from Scandal is their top pick.
The funny part about this is that in the comics, Donna was the mother of Ben and Billy.
On the show they gave their storyline to Lizzie and Mika.
The other new character we haven’t seen yet is Noah, he’s being played by Tyler
James Williams from everybody hates chris.
He’s not someone from the comics either.
It sounds like he’ll be in at least a few episodes, so I don’t think we’ll meet
him till after the Survivors leave Father Gabriel’s Church.
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