They were all clean though when they were in the car, the good ones anyways. Once Tyreese was dying and at peace with his decisions, the wounds were all gone. It's not like there are official rules on what people look like in the afterlife, anyways.

 

I dunno, I don't see them so much as real spirits as Tyreese's coming to grips with his pending demise. He sees them as they were in death when he is questioning himself, and as clean and pure and serene when he's ready to pass on.

 

LOL, what the post a minute before mine said.

 

It wasn't the afterlife, it was Tyreese's hallucinations.

That said, I'm upset with how Beth, Bob, Lizzie and Mika treated Tyreese. It's all a hallucination, but they didn't thank Tyreese for caring about them or trying to help them; they seemed amused that he was fighting to stay alive. The only ones who behaved as they lived were the Governor and Martin.

 

It's not really the afterlife. It's more of survivors hallucinating people who they missed.

 

It wasn't the afterlife. It was Tyreese's hallucination. The show hasn't gone that far off the deep end yet.

 

No, it was Tyreese's hallucinations. Its already been explained by the actor, the director, and the showrunner. They were hallucinations. They discussed it on TTD, and here is a statement from an interview yesterday from Greg Nicotero, the director of the episode:

"Tyreese has really been put through the ringer. So once he’s bitten, he sort of goes on this little journey, and he’s accompanied by the hallucinations of the people that have had an impact on him— the Governor, Martin, Beth and of course, the girls."

 

I wonder why Karen wasn't part of the hallucinations. She was a pretty big part of Tyreese's journey.
I was shocked to see The Governor again!

 

Totally agree. It was his passing into the Afterlife.

 

Honestly and even though they said that on TTD, I do believe the viewer can interpret the scene either way. Just like in real life, we have people who believe in spirits and people who don't. A person will have a near death experience and say he/she saw the light and some will believe it while others say they hallucinated. Personally, I like the thought of them being actual spirits appearing to usher him in to eternal peace. For some viewers, myself included, thinking of it that way helps make the show slightly less hopeless. For example back in season 3 when Rick saw Lori in her wedding dress. It was obviously a hallucination but Lori's death kinda really got to me. So for me, it made me feel a little better interpreting her appearance as her coming back to show Rick that she's in a better place, touching his face to let him know she will always watch over him and Judith. Either way, it doesn't really hurt anyone to believe either interpretation.

 

I'd like to start by saying that I don't believe in God or an afterlife so I find the concept of the afterlife being "reality" pretty amusing. But let's just say I did believe, my problem with your theory is that it doesn't make sense that those are the people that would usher Tyreese to the other side. They are good characters for his hallucination because they represent people who he struggled with his humanity over. I would think Karen and/or his family -- you know people he loved -- would be the ones to help him with his "journey". The hallucination theory makes much more sense.

 

Totally Agreed. The viewer can interpret it to be another planet if they want.

 

Well, technically, yes. He passed into something that was after life.

 

all the peeps that appeared were ones he questioned himself over and had guilt about his actions or inactions to, Karen he had no guilt or second guessing with. When the story ended, all his doubts were put to rest and he was at peace and ready to accept death.

 

Right. At the end he said 'turn it off', meaning literally turn the radio off, of metaphorically, 'turn off the violence. Turn off this world. I'm ready to go".

 

at first it seemed like it was Tyrese's hallucinations, but then at the end when they were driving in the car and Beth, Bob and the girls were all smiling and looking directly at Tyrese just as he was passing on it seemed very clear that they were there to welcome him into the afterlife. It was a very beautiful scene.