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'The Walking Dead' season 7 news: show producers say violence will not be toned down despite the backlash

Noriel See January 25, 2017 01:35 PM EST

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A lot of people seems to believe that "The Walking Dead" went a little overboard with the violence this season.

Last week, executive producer Gale Anne Hurd said that they have toned down the level of violence in the episodes they have yet to film because of the negative feedback.

However, Entertainment Weekly has spoken with executive producer Greg Nicotero and showrunner Scott M. Gimple recently, and they revealed that they have no intention of toning down the violence.

The first episode might have caused an uproar, but Nicotero said that even if he was given a chance, he wouldn't change a thing. "As brutal as that episode 1 was, it's still part of our storytelling bible, which is what the world is about," he stated.

Gimple also explained that the violence in the first episode was supposed to be more pronounced than usual because it served the narrative.

"The violence in the premiere was for a specific narrative purpose and I would never say that that's the baseline amount of violence that we would show on the show. If we're ever going to see something that pronounced, there needs to be a specific narrative purpose for it," he said.

Well, the season premiere was definitely violent. It featured a double header with Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) beating Glenn (Steven Yeun) and Abraham (Michael Cuditz) to a bloody pulp in front of their friends.

But the rest of "The Walking Dead" season 7 was just as violent. In the eighth episode, Negan decided to check if Spencer (Austin Nichols) was gutless. Well, turns out Spencer wasn't literally gutless at all after Negan sliced his stomach open and left his guts hanging. Olivia (Ann Mahoney) also got shot in the face after Rosita (Christian Serratos) tried to shoot Negan. And don't forget about the face-melting scene this season.

The level of violence in the other episodes shown so far hasn't been toned down that much, but it remains to be seen if the rest of the episodes were affected by the backlash.

The second half of "The Walking Dead" season 7 will debut on Sunday, Feb. 12, at 9 p.m. EDT on AMC.

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