Warning: There are spoilers ahead for “The Walking Dead” season eight premiere.
Season eight of “The Walking Dead” kicked off with Rick and his army unleashing war against Negan, but it also offered a few separate glimpses of other timelines which left some viewers puzzled.
If you thought there were three timelines going on in the episode, executive producer Greg Nicotero says there was actually one more.
“I counted four,” Nicotero told Comicbook.com. “They aren’t just one-off visuals. The way that [showrunner] Scott [Gimple] and the writers like to unfold these stories is really to give the audience an opportunity to put the clues together for themselves.”
Nicotero says you’ll continue to see them play out over the course of the season. Some are simpler to spot than others. Keep reading to see each timeline you need to keep straight this season.
1. The current timeline: Rick marches to war.
This is the most obvious timeline to pluck out of the episode. The majority of the season eight story line will follow Rick and his army as they face off with Negan and his Saviors.
2. The far-off future timeline: Old Man Rick
This is the other most obvious timeline to notice from the series’ 100th episode. Throughout the episode, viewers received flashes of Rick at some point in the future.
But is it all a dream? Nicotero told INSIDER that isn’t the case, something that was insisted by “The Walking Dead” creator Robert Kirkman and showrunner Scott M. Gimple on the series’ aftershow Sunday when they said Rick’s not in a coma.
Expect to see more of this to play out during the season. You can read more on the flash-forward scenes here.
3. Some time in the future: Carl and Rick at the gas station
This may have been less obvious, but the sequence from early in the episode with Carl stumbling onto a popular comic character, Siddiq, played by Avi Nash appears to take place at some undetermined time in the future, too.
Fans of the comic know Siddiq doesn’t show up until after Rick’s with war with Negan. Is that the case here as well? We’ll have to wait to find out.
For more on who Siddiq is and how he may factor into the new season head here.
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