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*Polish
*Mexican
*A small bit of Native American

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I usually just like to play video games such as Black Ops 3, Grand Theft Auto V.  I also like to hang out with my friends, and my boyfriend. I also like to go to the mall or

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*Deadpool
*Suicide Squad

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Previews for the Suicide Squad movie calendars include new artwork featuring Task Force X members Harley Quinn, Killer Croc, and Deadshot.

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*The Walking Dead
*Teen Mom OG
*Hell's Kitchen

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This week, AMC announced that surprise, surprise, The Walking Dead has been renewed for season seven. Though ratings have dipped just a tad since last season, they're still incredibly strong and it remains one of the most watched scripted series on cable, if not the most for non-network channels. The renewal was an "no duh" development, given that The Walking Dead is now essentially AMC's lifeline now that both Breaking Bad and Mad Men are off the air.

The closest thing The Walking Dead has to a pop culture rival, Game of Thrones, has struggled with concocting an "end of series" plan as the show gets closer to the end of the source material. season, GoT will venture into unwritten sixth book territory, and George RR Martin only has one more to write after that. The showrunners seem eager to conclude their story in a timely manner, and originally said they wanted to do seven seasons and move on. The reality is that it seems like it will be more like eight when that series ends.

Not so with The Walking Dead.

The show has the benefit of an enormous amount of source material, a huge run of comics that it's moving through at a snail's pace.
(spoilers for the show and comic follow)
When this season started, we were at issue , right after Rick killed Pete. Now, we're somewhere between issue 79-81, where issue 81 is where Heath and Glenn found them in a perilous situation, which is sort of the best analogue to where we are now. Glenn did not die (or fake die) in the comics at that moment, hence everyone's shock about last week. I remain convinced we will see Glenn return as soon as next week, and at the very least before the end of the season.

Issue 81 is also where the walls break and zombies start flooding into Alexandria itself. The Wolves attack was handled differently in the comics. Rick scared them away with a quick firefight at the gate, rather than Alexandria actually being invaded. Rick's grand zombie-herding plan that's gone awry is not in the comics either, but I predict it will still play out the same way, ending zombies (temporarily) overrunning Alexandria in a week or two. So I'm going with issue 81 as a marker of where we are, even if things are playing out a bit differently.

Why is this significant? Because the total run of the comics is now up to 147 issues. That's a full 66 issues past where we are now. If the show travels at the same pace it's been, with non-comic detours like Terminus and the hospital inserted along the way, The Walking Dead has the potential to run for probably 4-5 more seasons based on the existing source material right now. That would mean we'd hit season 10-11 before finishing up everything in existence at the moment.

But of course, Kirkman is still writing the series, and has publicly stated that he has enough content mapped out to have the series run for 300 issues. Three hundred issues. Granted, it has taken a while to get to 147 issues. The first issue in the series came out in 2004, meaning it's taken 11 years for this much to be written. To double what we have now? That could be another decade of writing for Kirkman, and eventually, even at The Walking Dead 's plodding pace, the show could eventually surpass the source material depending on his rate of production.

Still though, the mind reels at just how long The Walking Dead could run. Unless the show steps on the gas and speeds up, starting to skip comic plotlines instead of adding more to them, we could easily see a show with the potential to run for 20-25 seasons based purely on the amount of material available.

Even if that is the case, however, will the show actually run that long? The Walking Dead is already starting to outpace its cable TV brethren. Breaking Bad ended at season five. Mad Men at season seven. The Sopranos went to season six. Sons of Anarchy ended at season seven. Dexter stretched to season eight (though many would argue it should have died at season four or five).

The type of shows that do go to ten seasons and beyond? Network programs that are much more procedural-based with much lower costs than The Walking Dead. These are your CSIs and Law and Orders, shows that can pretty much last forever as long as the writers can come up with new crimes to solve. The CW has produced 10 and 11 seasons of Smallville (off-air) and Supernatural (still going) respectively, so sometimes it can branch out from the crime genre.

I fully believe The Walking Dead will make it to ten seasons, without question. That's unusual enough itself on cable, but could it really push past that? Could it become something that approaches a two decade long phenomenon?

High costs and audience interest level could be big problems. But the show is structured in a way where the very concept allows it to pretty much run indefinitely. There is no real "endgame" in sight for the series. No point in time where everyone will stop and go "well, the world is fixed now" and move on.

The Walking Dead also benefits from a cast that can be easily rotated as the years go on. In seven years, we've gotten pretty used to a format which allows for four or five "core" staple characters surrounded by a half dozen or so peripheral co-stars that usually meet their end eventually. Sometimes a "core" character can be killed, and a peripheral character will be promoted to the main roster (this happened with Michonne, for instance).

Theoretically, The Walking Dead could lose almost anyone and keep going. While I'm sure the writers would love some characters to stay around forever, lock actors into a show for ten years, and some will probably start to get itchy. If Norman Reedus or Melissa McBride or even Andrew Lincoln wanted to leave, I think the show could easily survive the loss, as beloved as their characters may be. Not a whole lot of other shows would be able to operate like that effectively.

So in terms of source material and a constantly rotating cast, The Walking Dead really could be around for the ultra-long haul. But that relies on audiences continuing to be interested (it will help if the quality in the Scott Gimple era of the show remains as good as it's been) and AMC loosening the purse strings to allow the show the budget it needs (and it needs a hell of a budget).

In the end, it won't be a lack of material that will end The Walking Dead, but if anything, low ratings and high costs. But for now? It continues to more or less rule the world, and at this pace, should easily make it to season ten, with possibly more to follow after that.

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I don't have a lot of friends due to arguments over the summer, but I do have one friend named Cynthia Salazar. She also goes to Morton West.

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*Drawing
*Playing video games
*Volleyball

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