This text comprises spoilers about The Strolling Lifeless: Lifeless Metropolis season 2, episode 6, “Bridge Companions are Exhausting to Come by These Days.”

There was a lot occurring within the newest episode of The Walking Dead: Dead City. However there’s one vital query above all others that must be answered, and answered instantly: bear or zombie bear?

The episode, “Bridge Companions are Exhausting to Come by These Days,” was interrupted — very like a household argument between Lauren Cohan’s Maggie and teenage son Hershel (Logan Kim) — by an enormous bear assault.

The identical bear who took out troopers earlier entered the museum scorching on Maggie’s path, simply mowing down some walkers in its… nicely, grizzly path. Maggie began throwing weapons on the bear. Hershel started tossing knives on the bear. However these had been futile makes an attempt to cease the enraged beast. Lastly, the bear impaled itself on Bruegel’s spike-filled preventing ring, ending some of the random and fantastic assaults in Strolling Lifeless historical past.

However the query stays: Was {that a} bear… or zombie bear? We went to Strolling Lifeless chief content material officer Scott M. Gimple for the definitive reply, and it appears to be a query that has garnered fairly a little bit of confusion.

“Only a common bear,” clarifies Gimple to Leisure Weekly. “Thanks for asking that. There was a number of concern that it is likely to be considered a zombie bear.”

Gimple additionally explains the legal guidelines of zombification. “It has some accidents,” Gimple says of the bear in query. “Almost definitely from zombies. But when a zombie bites a bear, it doesn’t flip right into a zombie bear.” Boooooooooooooo!

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As for the girl who needed to each battle the non-zombie bear and direct the non-zombie bear assault, Lauren Cohan explains how she faked her approach by way of a battle with a creature that might be added in later courtesy of visible results. It appears Alex Kingi was enjoying the a part of the animal on set.

“Alex is aware of tips on how to transfer like a bear,” says Cohan. “He got here to set and he had poles that prolonged his arms and his head to be the precise measurement of the bear. So eye traces all lined up. After which we labored with two completely different VFX groups. However the enjoyable half about it was designing the bear. I used to be on Zooms with all people determining the place the matting could be and the way we’d make the bear.”

There may be additionally some hidden which means behind the creature confronting Maggie. “The bear is such a logo for each Hershel and Maggie in numerous methods, and it's a second for Maggie to face the craze and the should be seen that her son is asking for. It's form of this take a look at of whether or not one thing can shake her into recognizing him.”

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However, sure, it’s additionally about… THE BEAR! A bear which truly, imagine it or not, has a reputation. “Her title is Bobbie,” Cohan reveals. Naming a CGI character that solely exists on display for a few minute exhibits the extent of element and depth that Cohan took on in her function as director.

“As quickly as we had been going to be coping with an animal within the story, I felt this pleasure proper from the start of discovering sympathy for each character that we meet. So we inform a narrative of the unhappy journey this bear could have had, despite the fact that it's hungry and pursuing our characters.” Cohan pauses. “However she's nonetheless fairly scary.” Zombie or no zombie.

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