Heres Whose Voice Was On The Radio On The Walking Dead …

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Last night on The Walking Dead, there were not one but two major developments. The first was Negan joining up with the Whisperers, despite Betas objections and outright sabotage, the second was Eugene making contact with a new person on the radio in some other community somewhere else.

The two had an extended conversation that was mostly about their personal lives before the apocalypse, and Eugene seemed overjoyed to have someone, anyone new to talk to, despite probably giving away too much information on his end.

While The Walking Dead is constantly making big changes from the comics, like for instance, eliminating Rick and Carl Grimes, lately the show has been exactly on point with big comic turns. The Negan storyline is more or less identical to an important comic arc that should result in somethingsignificant. And how this Eugene situation is playing out so far is the same as the introduction to the next big TWD storyline as well.

Usually I say that talking about the comic isnt necessarily spoilers, but in this case, I think it might be. So if you really want to know who is on the radio, you may want to turn back now.

Its almost 100% clear that its Stephanie, emissary of the Commonwealth, on the radio speaking with Eugene. The voice already has an actress attached to her, Margot Bingham from Boardwalk Empire, with The Walking Dead welcoming her into the family, implying that shes going to turn into more than just a voice soon enough.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 04: Margot Bingham visits SiriusXM Studios on June 04, 2019 in New York ... [+] City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

The obvious idea would be that this is some kind of trick. A nice person getting info out of you on the radio in the apocalypse is almost always going to turn into something bad. And yet its kind of a surprise when that isnt what happens here and Stephanie is genuinely nice and the Commonwealth isnt some community of cannibals or something.

Rather, the Commonwealth is a 50,000 person community larger than anything the series has seen so far. They even have their own football games in a stadium. The Commonwealth isnt evil per se, but it is ruled by an oppressive classist system which turns out to be the main point of the arc. Many fan theories wonder if we already have been introduced to the Commonwealth through the helicopter people or Georgies group, but my guess is no, we havent, and Stephanie is our first real into to this community and storyline.

This dance on the radio between Stephanie and Eugene goes on for a long time, pretty much the rest of the Whisperer war, and the Commonwealth stuff doesnt start until the Whisperer arc is put to bed. Much to the surprise of comic fans, the Commonwealth arc is the last storyline of the entire series, with Rick Grimes ending up getting killed by the Governors (not that Governor) son, and the series ends with a Carl Grimes future flash forward in the next issue. But obviously thats not whats going to happen here.

It stands to reason that The Walking Dead show will not be ending with the Commonwealth storyline, even though it will probably be season 12 by the time it catches up with the comics in full. But now we know that its almost certain that they are going to go down this road, even if its going to play out way, way differently without Rick, Carl and Michonne, who will all not be on the show by the time it comes around.

So yeah, thats who is on the radio, and I really doubt theyre going to change anything from the comics in this regard. The Commonwealth is coming, and I am very curious to see how it unfolds under Angela Kang.

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