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"Robert Kirkman has said that he thinks Walking Dead fans are now used to characters being killed off at any moment. Viewers of tonight&amp;#039;s second season finale saw Jimmy (James McCune) and Patricia (Jane McNeill) die following the deaths of Shane (Jon Bernthal) and Dale (Jeffrey DeMunn) in the previous two episodes.  &amp;gt; &amp;#039;The Walking Dead&amp;#039; season two finale in pictures Kirkman said that he believes the TV show has replicated the atmosphere of the original comics, telling Entertainment Weekly: &amp;quot;One of my favorite things about the show right now is, after these three episodes, we are in a mode where the audience is so used to characters going at any moment that they&amp;#039;re almost surprised when people don&amp;#039;t go. That&amp;#039;s really cool. That&amp;#039;s the atmosphere we&amp;#039;ve had going on in the comic book series for a long time, this feeling that anyone can go at any moment.  &amp;quot;You know, it&amp;#039;s a dangerous world and it&amp;#039;s a dangerous show and we&amp;#039;re definitely going to be continuing that theme going into season three. The show&amp;#039;s always kind of going to be a bloodbath.&amp;quot; Kirkman added that he thought Jimmy and Patricia were more than &amp;#039;redshirts&amp;#039; brought into the show merely to be killed off, arguing: &amp;quot;They may not have gotten as much screen time as a Daryl Dixon or a Rick Grimes. But The Walking Dead is all about making these deaths emotional.  &amp;quot;I think when you see Beth&amp;#039;s reaction you see that these are important deaths... they did inform just how dangerous that attack on the farm was, and they definitely served their purpose. So I wouldn&amp;#039;t want to sell them short by throwing out &amp;#039;redshirt&amp;#039; accusations.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; Andrew Lincoln interview: &amp;#039;Walking Dead is the coolest job in town&amp;#039; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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