The Walking Dead: Ross Marquand’s choice for most shocking death

Ross Marquand was a fan of The Walking Dead before he joined the show as Aaron of Alexandria. He was shocked by one death in particular.

Many of the cast members were fans of The Walking Dead show or comics or both before they were cast for the show. Ross Marquand was a fan of the show before he brought the good news of Alexandria to Maggie and Sasha in season 5B.

Ross spoke with Pop Sugar about what death was the most shocking for him so far on The Walking Dead. As with many fans of the show, his answer was Hershel. Poor Hershel, the wise man whom The Governor used to bargain with Rick for the prison in the middle of season 4.

Hershel was so proud of Rick for telling The Governor that they could live together and make things work. The Governor had pulled Michonne’s sword away from Hershel’s throat temporarily and Hershel had a contented smile on his face.

Then that horrible moment when the Governor changed his mind and whispered, “Liar,” and swiftly swung the sword, setting in motion the fall of the prison and the end of Hershel.

"I think Hershel’s death, honestly. It was such a shocking, shocking death. I remember being blown away by it, and jumping out of my chair because he was one of my favorite characters. I just couldn’t believe that had happened. Especially in such an abrupt way! When the sword came down, I was like, “No, no, this can’t be happening.” It was visually devastating. That was, for me, the most brutal death of the show."

Abrupt is the perfect word. It was so abrupt and then it moved into the battle scenes at the prison so it was difficult for the characters and the audience to process Hershel’s loss and deal with the battle and the ongoing fight and chaos simultaneously.

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It wasn’t until Rick was telling Carl not to look back that we had time to think about everything that we had just experienced. They didn’t want to look back at what they just lost, because they had to force themselves to keep moving. But we couldn’t let ourselves forget. We would have to let our minds look back for us.