When AMC debuted the Comic-Con banner for “The Walking Dead,” the first things that many fans noticed was Michonne, played by Danai Gurira, riding a horse. This of course caused much confusion as to where the horse came from, and remembrance of the horse that Rick found in the pilot episode of the series. Now we have a new image of Michonne riding “Flame,” as he will be called on the show, but why a horse?
“With gas at a premium, with the fact that vehicles break down, I think we would return to the days of horseback riding and you can graze them as you go in a place like Georgia,” Executive Producer Gale Ann Hurd told Entertainment Weekly. “You don’t have to carry food for them. They feed themselves, so to speak. It goes along with the new approach this season of sustainability. With a horse, you can go through the woods. You can get around obstacles. You can’t do that in a vehicle. If a tree falls and blocks the road, you can’t go through the forest. You’re not going to make it through. It’s actually much more of a useful choice. Not only that, but Michonne looks so badass on it.”
