For longtime “Walking Dead” fans, Rosita’s death was difficult to watch, to say the least. After year after year, season after season of avoiding death at the hands of the undead, she’s finally bitten by a walker. She eventually reveals the wound to her allies before accepting her fate. Her close friend Eugene Porter (Josh McDermitt) kills her before she can turn, bringing her tenure on the show to an emotional end. As Christian Serratos told Entertainment Weekly, she came up with Rosita’s death for one major reason: to get fans extra emotional over the series finale.
“I think a show that was about possibly losing your loved ones, you want to lose somebody at the end. I know it sounds so dark, but I feel like the show, we owed it to the fans to break their hearts one last time,” she explained, claiming that one of the big selling points of “The Walking Dead” over the years was its ability to make viewers emotional. Thankfully, the powers that be were able to make the final chapter of Rosita’s story happen, and sure enough, it became one of the most prominent talking points of the series finale.
While Rosita’s improbable escape from a group of zombies in one piece was more than a bit far-fetched, the emotional resonance of her subsequent death made it a tad easier to forgive.
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