Robert Kirkman Talks To EW About Rick, Lori, And Shane **SPOILERS!**

NOTE: This article contains spoilers, so if you haven’t seen Episode 4 and don’t want to be spoiled DO NOT read this article.

EW got a chance to sit down with Robert Kirkman to (again) talk about the Rick, Lori, Shane, and Lori’s pregnancy. They don’t really cover new ground with Lori’s pregnancy but they do also talk about The Walking Dead being renewed for a third season among other things.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Let’s talk about the sex scene — or rather, the lack of a sex scene. It’s interesting that the makers of a zombie show which features people wearing undead innards get a bit squeamish when it comes to people making sweet beautiful love.
ROBERT KIRKMAN: That’s more of a comment on America as a whole and television’s standards and practices than it is on us. It is kind of absurd that in an episode where you see the inside of a bloated, water-logged corpse, you can’t see so much as a butt cheek. That’s the world we’re living in. But I think it’s important to view the relationship between Maggie and Glenn in a certain light. I don’t think we wanted to turn that into some kind of steamy, pornographic sex romp.

So there won’t be an X-rated, wakka-wakka guitar-accompanied hardcore bonus scene on the season 2 DVD?
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The big reveal at the end of the show was Lori’s pregnancy. Can you confirm, chronology-wise, that the father could be either Shane or Rick?
The way the time line works, that is definitely, technically the case

We talked Rick’s leadership skills last time. There was a point this episode when Hershel said the group might be able to stay if they obeyed his rules and Rick basically went, “Sure.” I would be asking what those rules were!
[Laughs] Well, I will point out a few things: I think he’s still running low on blood, so there’s that. This man did just save his son’s life, theoretically. And also they outnumber the people on the farm to a certain extent, so I think he could appease that guy for a little bit. I don’t think that’s a misstep as far as his leadership goes.

It was recently announced that the Walking Dead will definitely be back for a third season. When you got that news did you immediately start planning the next run of shows?
Well, despite just having gotten the final word on season 3, you don’t do a show like this without being mindful of what you’re building towards. At least once a week in the writer’s room we spend an hour or two just talking about all the different things that we’re planning on doing in a proposed third season and how we’re going to pay off on various different things that have happened in season 1 and season 2.

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