The Walking Dead Season 3 Was Supposed To Have A Different Ending
The Walking Dead‘s Season 3 ended in a big way, and viewers were forced to look danger in the face. The final episode of the season, “Welcome to the Tombs” served only as the ending to a season instead of serving any sort of finalizing.
Twenty-seven deaths were promised and delivered in The Walking Dead, and while the Governor’s mass-murdering rampage of potential deserters was messy and sadistic, there were two deaths that actually made the guy into the evil son of a bitch that the comics made him out to be.
Okay, we’re free from The Walking Dead stragglers, so now we can dive into the fact that the deaths of Milton and Andrea, though understated, made for one of the more interesting scene sequences of the series.
Of course, it could just be that I really hated Andrea since her non-suicide in the first The Walking Dead season, and Milton was about as whitebread a character as I can imagine, so I had been waiting for these people to die for weeks.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly about The Walking Dead Season 3 finale, Dallas “Milton” Roberts revealed the way their deaths were originally to be handled. If you’ll recall, the Governor stabs Milton, leaving him incapacitated in front of a tied-up Andrea, with the intentions of Milton’s zombified body rising and putting the bite on Andrea.
Beyond our wildest The Walking Dead expectations, it actually happened that way. But Roberts explains the more brutal, less emotional send-off the two would have shared.
He shared in the interview, “Originally, the beating scene that started the episode wasn’t there. Originally, I showed up and was led into the room where Andrea was and I took the tools out – the instruments of torture that were laid on the table — and then he shot me in the stomach, completely unexpectedly.
Dallas Roberts continued about The Walking Dead‘s season finale, “And then I was left to bleed out in the same idea basically — you’re going to kill her now. There was a lot more of Milton trying to open the door and him trying to free her from the chains. And then there was a section where he was going to wrap the chain around the neck and try to choke her to death before he turned so she wouldn’t have to deal with Walker Milton, or Biter Milton, as it were.”
And finally, Dallas Roberts explained about The Walking Dead season finale, “And then at the end of that, it was just Tyreese and someone else who found her. Rick and Daryl and Michonne weren’t there. So it was essentially the same idea, except you saw me taking chunks out of Laurie Holden in that version. And then they called us back a few months later to reshoot it and made all those changes. So now you’re not sure if I’ve gotten her until after that door opens, and I think that’s probably why they did it.”
So there you have it. At the end of The Walking Dead season three, we could have seen a bloody and defeated Andrea and a Milton that was actually active onscreen instead of just having acts passively applied to him after the fact.
