Like zombies, the controversy over Glenn and Abrahams deaths on The Walking Dead keeps coming back to life.

It started in 2016 with the season six finale, Last Day on Earth. Fans and the media theorized all season which of the main cast members Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan ) would kill in his debut episode, but the show ended on a cliffhanger, with the fates of several fan favorites up in the air.

Following a summer of even more fan theories , the season seven premiere revealed that Negan killed both Abraham (Michael Cudlitz) and Glenn (Steven Yeun). Both deaths were particularly graphic, with Glenns eye popping out as in the comic, and the combination of the cliffhanger and the brutality drew significant fan backlash .

In a recent episode of the Talk Dead To Me podcast, Abraham himself, actor Cudlitz, said the deaths went too far.

I always think it was a bridge too far, personally. I thought it was too much, Cudlitz said. Either one of us should have lived a little bit longer because I think it was, people were very affected by it. They said, Oh, my gosh, it was the most graphic brutal deaths. It was murder porn. All this stuff.

Other deaths in the show were actually more brutal, but the fact that Abraham and Glenn were bigger characters in the show made it harder on fans, he added.