8. To see the new skills she acquired as a CIA operative.

Any news if her return is to stay on the show going forward, or is it to film some flash back or flash forward scenes to tie up a few knots?

 

We know where she was, she was in that shitshow she got into so she could move on with her career.

Humility? Shame? A lasting feeling of failure? Herpes? Nah, she could have stayed home.

She better not take that away from characters who actually have something to avenge. Oh no, you killed some people I don't really know about and some I left behind...

Negan for the win. Let's hope he's really mean to her.

Not that you really cared.

In a "I need you like I need a hole in my head" kind of way?

Anybody really misses her? I always hated that character and thought she often was a burden to Glenn, a much better character.

 

I'm glad she's coming back, but this is the only thing regarding her return I'm uncertain about. I don't see how Maggie and Negan can co-exist on the show. With Rick gone and Michonne soon to leave it feels as if Negan will take on a bigger role and that creates problems if Maggie comes back in a leadership role.

 

From another Comic Con report saying her return would be in season 10.

The Walking Dead announces Lauren Cohan’s return at NYCC

At New York Comic-Con, The Walking Dead announced that Lauren Cohan, who left the series last season, will return in season 10 as Maggie Greene.

Of all the big reveals that came out of The Walking Dead’s NYCC panel, the news that Lauren Cohan will be returning to TWD as Maggie Greene is what made fans really happy. Lauren Cohan quietly left the series in season 9 to pursue other opportunities. The show was hopeful that Lauren’s schedule would allow her to return as Maggie Greene someday, so they wrote Maggie out of the series by having her go to join Georgie and work on building a knowledge base that could be shared with other communities.
When Whiskey Cavalier, the ABC show that Lauren was starring in, was not picked up for a second season, fans were anxious to have Cohan return to The Walking Dead. The show said that talks were ongoing with Cohan, but there was no indication that she would be returning until she joined the cast onstage at NYCC this past weekend to announce her return.

Even though Maggie Greene isn’t an original TWD character, she has been on the show since season 2 and is one of the longest surviving characters. She’s also a fan favorite, and fans are very invested in the well-being of Maggie and Glenn’s son, Hershel Rhee.

No information was given about how Maggie Greene will rejoin the survivors, but showrunner Angela Kang confirmed that Maggie will return as a series regular in season 10 of The Walking Dead.

 

So if she is returning in season 10, it seems it would make sense to write her in at the end of the whisperer arc. May be she comes back as a hero to save the day like how Carol did when she took out the cannibals at the terminus?

 

What's more interesting to me is how they would time and weave the Maggie re-emergence with Michonne's departure.

Maggie left with Georgie, who is connected with another community, and widely speculated as the same as the Commonwealth.

Michonne is supposed to be leaving the group (instead of being killed off) to look for Rick.

Which seems reasonable to suggest that Michonne leaves to look for Rick after she got some information from Maggie.

"Well, he lives three blocks down from me at the Commonwealth, you didn't know? He was in bad shape and was in a coma, until we developed the technology to grow another Rick from the comatosed Rick's DNA. How he is fully grown but he has no memory of any past event..."

That seems unlikely. If she is gone searching for Rick it seems to suggest she has very little idea where he is. If Rick is at the Commonwealth then all Michonne needs is ditections, or GPS coordinates and Google Maps.

My money would be Maggie comes back to tell the gang that there was an FBI agent Whiskey Cavalier who got killed by ABC after one season. The group is called ABC because they recruit new members by designating them as ABC types (A for axxholes, B for bxxches and C for cxxts), and this Whiskey guy on his dying breath told her that he has an undercover informant inside ABC, and her name is Jadis, that Jadis has information on the whereabouts of a dozen helicopters modified so that they can use human urine as fuel. Jadis was sent to steal that technology but she also know where Rick was/is.

 

I have mixed feelings too. My general attitude towards Maggie has always been lukewarm. I always preferred the other female characters around her. I didn't like how she gave up on Beth, even after she learned from Daryl she could well be alive. Not to mention the fact she never wrote Beth's name next to Glenn's, on her way to Terminus... No excuse, really.

I began to like her character more after Glenn died, and she took on the leadership of Hilltop. I liked how the meeting went down between her and Negan in the cell, and I feel that was proper closure on it, I can't imagine how they could possibly bring these two characters together again in a scene, it feels impossible. Perhaps @Dnae is right, and Negan will die before Maggie returns.

Whilst I've not missed her, I'm very curious about where she's been and what is the purpose of her return.

 

Ahahah!

 

to be honest....I'd rather have Negan on the show than maggie

 

They really need to bring back Beth for the big musical number.