Ross Marquand heaps praise upon his fallen co-star: "He's easily one of the most talented people I have ever met in my life."
Warning: this story contains spoilers for season eight, episode three of AMC's The Walking Dead, "Monsters," as well as spoilers from the comics on which the show is based.
The writing was on the wall
as recently as last week, and as early as 2013 for fans of the Walking Dead comic
books: the death of an Alexandrian, one of the two men responsible for saving
Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and the rest of Team Family from their time on the
open road back in season five.
That man: Eric Raleigh, played by Jordan
Woods-Robinson. After sustaining a gunshot wound in battle against the Saviors
toward the end of "The Damned," Eric finally succumbed to his
injuries in the latest installment of the series, "Monsters."
In the
comics, Eric dies with no warning at all, shot in the head in the thick of the
gunfight, right in front of his longtime boyfriend Aaron.
For its version of
the violent tragedy, the Walking Dead TV series afforded Eric and Ross
Marquand's Aaron an extended moment by a quiet tree, far enough away from the
battle for one last goodbye, even if those firmly final words went unspoken.
Following the firefight with
the Saviors, Aaron returns to the tree where he left Eric, only to find that
his boyfriend is gone. When he looks out into the distance, Aaron watches as a
zombified Eric wanders off into the forest, too far away and too close to other
walkers for Aaron to put the reanimated Eric down for good.
As one of the kindest characters on The Walking Dead,
presently and otherwise, it's troubling to think that Aaron could very easily
slip into a downward spiral of darkness in light of Eric's death. But for his
part, Ross Marquand says Aaron will respond to losing the love of his life in a
way that's true to the spirit of both courageous men.
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