AMC’s revealed a teaser poster for the upcoming fifth season of The Walking Dead which simply says “Survive.” Of course, that simple “survive” will be taken numerous ways and analyzed to death until AMC puts out the next piece of teaser artwork.
Taken at face value, it’s a command to our heroic, ragtag pack of friends to do what it takes to make it out of Terminus alive, which is probably all that’s meant by this first generic tease of the new season. The network’s also put out a super short video with Andrew Lincoln giving a description of what we can expect from season five when it premieres in October.
Among the many big questions left dangling as season four drew to a close was whether that was poor Beth being served up to Rick, Carl, Daryl, and Michonne when they arrived in Terminus. Comic book creator and series writer/executive producer Robert Kirkman talked to TVGuide.com about that possibility.
“The Beth BBQ question is a big one. I’ve seen that a lot on Twitter. When a theory is as prevalent as that one is, it’s more than likely not true,” explained Kirkman. “If there ever was a storyline where we were going a different way and the audience seemed to be ahead of us to that point, it would be extremely unfortunate and I would certainly not feel too good about how well we’re doing our jobs. Thankfully this doesn’t seem to be the case.”
