Talk:Fight the Living/Episode 16: Smoke Rising/@comment-5790496-20130113043621/@comment-3520361-20130113053150

I always knew that everybody in Woodbury was going to die. That's why I spent so much time on Haley. I thought she was so interesting I just had to get in as much as possible as long as she was there. I decided Beth would be "promoted" from the get-go of season 4 but I didn't put that on the characters' page because it would give away that she was going to make it. Merle's death and his general involvement in this episode was something that was changed drastically before I wrote this. He was originally going to stay with Michonne. Tyreese was going to be the one who carried Beth while Morgan was the one who was captured by the Hunters, but I changed it because it didn't make sense that they'd leave someone who's terrible with a gun at the prison and bring the sniper ace with them instead. But Merle had to be the one who killed the Governor so he had to come back. Merle and the Governor were the two mainys that were definitely gonna die. Glenn was one I went back and forth on. Actually, it's still possible that he's alive so you never know. But right now I'm saying he's dead. I had trouble deciding whether or not Judith would die in the assault or her dying of the flu at the farm. I also thought about having Maggie get killed in some way or another.

When I first started the fanfic, the prison assault was going to be very different. I knew that all of the Woodbury traitors would die, but Glenn, Daryl, and Maggie were all going to be gunned down. Of coarse Daryl was already dead and the other two had left the prison so that was dropped. Merle probably would've lasted longer but Abraham kinda does anything he could.

And oh shit. I forgot all about the twist I was gonna do while I was writing this. Oh well, I guess it will fit just as well in a later episode.