To the dismay of many of its loyalists, AMC's The Walking Dead will be on hiatus until the fall.

One of the biggest central themes of the series is evolution, as the series and its characters continue to transform amid a world dominated by the zombie apocalypse.

While conducting a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, actor Norman Reedus, who plays Daryl Dixon, spoke about the world the characters of the show live in and how it corrupts their psyches.

"It's interesting because people that aren't villains, may turn into villains, you know what I mean? Carl just shot a kid in the face. I think season four is going to be our best season, I really do," he said. "Our new showrunner - Glen [Mazzara] was amazing, and Frank [Darabont] was always amazing, but Scott [Gimple] is such a good writer. He's got the whole think plotted out already. I'm really excited to get going. We'll start season four in May."

In other Walking Dead news, IGN reported that the show's loyalists can expect another time lapse for its future installment. Executive producer Gale Anne Hurd recently spoke to the website about the respective time jumps.

"I don't think it's changing it. Every season, yes, there will more than likely be a passage of time. It's unlikely to follow directly after the end of this episode," she said.

Although The Governor (David Morrissey) is clearly Rick's (Andrew Lincoln) main arch nemesis at this point, it appears as though Carl (Chandler Riggs) is becoming more and more like a mini-governor, as the finale saw him kill a member of Woodbury who had already surrendered.

Hurd addressed the complexities pertaining to the slowly forming wedge between Carl and his father.

"It's complex. It's clearly right in his mind, he personally saw how walking away, as he walked away from that walker that killed Dale, was the wrong thing to do," she said. "And he felt that Rick, his father, should have just killed another man in cold blood, and that that would have been the right decision. That's unlikely something that Rick is going to do. And we'll have to see more of parenting in the apocalypse, and how Rick deals with that."

The Walking Dead is set to make its season 4 return in October of 2013. Keep checking back for more of the latest details on the zombie series.

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