Although the final season of The Walking Dead is coming to an end, the franchise has multiple spin-offs in the works - still, the Rick Grimes show could be the perfect opportunity to finish things once and for all. AMC's The Walking Dead first brought Robert Kirkman's zombie apocalypse story to life in 2010 and has since become one of modern television's most successful and popular shows. The original Walking Dead show, currently starring Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus), and Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride), will end with the conclusion of season 11, but the franchise is set to continue with several Walking Dead spinoffs. The most intriguing of the planned spinoffs is the currently untitled Rick & Michonne series, which will bring Andrew Lincoln back as Rick Grimes for the first time since his fake-out death in season 9.

The Rick and Michonne spinoff series could be a great way to properly end The Walking Dead, by tying Rick's story - which began the show - to a close. So many of The Walking Dead's most iconic moments had Rick at the heart of them, even if his story ultimately took him away from the main show. Rick was the main character for the first eight seasons of The Walking Dead, and continues to be the series' most famous apocalypse survivor, so having his final story also be the franchise's last would be a fitting, full-circle way to bring things to a close.

How The Rick & Michonne Spinoff Can End The Walking Dead

Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes and Danai Gurira as Michonne in The Walking Dead

The Rick & Michonne will pick up from the last time it showed the two Walking Dead heroes - with Rick flown off to the CRM with Jadis, and Michonne out looking for him. The happiest ending that the six-episode spinoff could have would be the pair returning home to reunite with their children, Judith and Rick Junior, where they can live the rest of their lives in peace, which could also bring closure to The Walking Dead franchise as a whole. But The Walking Dead is notorious for not giving families the futures they dream of, most notably Maggie brutally losing Glenn before Herschel's birth. Rick and Michonne's spinoff could adapt Robert Kirkman's source material and have a power-hungry resident of the CRM kill Rick Grimes, which would give the franchise a sense of finality given the main character would be officially dead.

Can Walking Dead Season 11 Still Have A Satisfying End?

Norman Reedus as Daryl and Cailey Fleming as Judith in Walking Dead

Although The Walking Dead show is coming to an end, The Walking Dead franchise is not. The biggest problem with The Walking Dead's announced spinoffs for Daryl, Maggie, and Negan is that it removes any danger of those characters dying in the final series of the main show. That takes away a lot of the unpredictability that makes The Walking Dead so exciting to watch, and makes it more obvious which characters will probably die.

Still, The Walking Dead season 11 can have a satisfying ending. The final episodes need to carefully balance tying up the series' own storylines while also setting up the spinoffs, but the focus needs to be on the former so that The Walking Dead and its characters who won't appear in the future get the send-offs they deserve. The main focus of the remaining episodes needs to be the core group, led by Daryl, winning their conflict with the Commonwealth and then establishing their future home - either at the Commonwealth itself or by rebuilding Alexandria. The final episode could benefit from a substantial time jump - something The Walking Dead has done before - to show Judith, Carol, and the rest thriving decades after their final fight, all without spoiling what is to come in spinoffslike the Rick & Michonne series.

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