The wait is almost over for The Walking Dead's sixth season premiere 'First Time Again', which will air in the US tomorrow (October 11) and in the UK on Monday (October 12).

But those final 24 hours are often the hardest, so we've got some tidbits to see you through. We've seen the premiere, and we've caught up with the cast, so below are 17 things we learned about the upcoming season.

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1) Norman Reedus likens Daryl this season to "a domesticated wolf", and he might or might not get a little bit wild again… "He's changed a lot since season one," the star added. "He's not angry all the time any more, and he picks his battles better now."



2) Glenn's moral compass will continue to be tested, but Steven Yeun thinks the moment in which he spares Nicholas was a turning point. "It can be misconstrued that he was being compassionate, and I don't think it was necessarily compassion. I think it was a selfish act – he saw the face of someone who could have been him, somebody pathetic and broken down, and he could either kill him and forever lose himself, or spare him and maintain some humanity."

3) Season six premiere 'First Time Again' is the show's most epic and cinematic episode to date, with a non-linear structure that blends its tone between the relative calm of season four's premiere and the no-holds-barred action of season five's.

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4) Deanna goes on "a pretty wild ride" following the death of her husband, and according to actress Tovah Feldshuh her leadership style will be contrasted with Rick's. She offered Rick culture, and he offered her brawn and protection, so one of the overriding questions now is: "For Deanna, is there a journey from the stateswoman to the warrior, and for Rick, is there a journey from the warrior to the statesman?"



5) Rick and Morgan being reunited will make for some serious ideological conflict, says Lennie James. "There is adversity in terms of where the two men stand now… As far as Morgan is concerned now, all life is precious. And he's brought that to the group at a time when Rick is trying to convince the Alexandrians that if you're gonna live, you have to kill."

6) As nice as it is to have running water and secure housing, the cast suggests it won't be an easy transition. Now that Alexandria has given the group a chance to take a breath and stop running, they're forced to really look at themselves. "This is the first time they've been in a sustainable community – even the farm was nothing like this, because there are systems in place here," says Sonequa Martin-Green. "I don't have to live in the woods, I can sleep in a bed and be a person, and therefore I can start to evaluate who I've become. We see a lot of that this season."

"They've been running, running, running, running," agrees James, "and you don't know how tired you are until you stop running. For a minute this group has stopped running, and there's s**t catching up with them."

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7) Do these characters really want life to go back to normal? That's a big question mark, according to actor Michael Cudlitz: "They have a sense of normalcy, meaning back to the way things were, and there's an examination of whether what we're trying to put back together is even worth putting back together."



8) The cast haven't watched Fear The Walking Dead – at least, Reedus and Yeun haven't. "I met the cast, and that's as far as I've gone – I haven't seen anything 'cause we work all day, every day," explains Reedus.

9) The one good thing to come out of Sasha's journey into despair last season is that she's a great sniper now, says Martin-Green. She still carries a lot of guilt for having made it to Alexandria when Bob and Tyrese didn't, but "there's been a lot of reflection, a lot of awareness, and an awakening that started in the prayer with Maggie and Father Gabriel".

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10) Morgan's badass stick isn't a weapon so much as an outlet. "Mostly when you see him swinging the stick, he's not hitting anybody with it – it's a way of keeping the dark side that we know he has calm," explains James. "Mostly it'll be at the beginning of a day or at the end of a day, and it's a way of keeping the beast at bay."



11) The season premiere is, unexpectedly, very funny, with Michonne and Eugene serving up some dry and non-dry humour respectively.

12) Many fans (along with Andrew Lincoln's mum) are dying for Rick and Michonne to get together. Nicotero is tight-lipped on the possibility, but Cudlitz doesn't think it's going to happen: "You know that When Harry Met Sally thing about men and women can't be friends because sex is always involved? I think this is one of those relationships where it's not. The audience can take it there, but I don't think for them that exists at all.

"I think there's a respect and a love maybe in a way that we can't even understand because it is a post-apocalyptic. It's this other thing that's grown out of Michonne's need for family and Rick's need to protect his family."

13) And how about Daryl's eternally mysterious love life? "I'm not opposed to it and I'm not running towards it," says Reedus of the possibiilty of a love interest. "There was a hint of [him being gay] and I was down with that – whatever they give me, I'm gonna run with and I'm going to try and kick ass with… I don't get to pick those things, or else I would've had sex with every single cast member on this show already."

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14) Ross Marquand was surprised by the backlash to Aaron's kiss with his boyfriend Eric last season. "I was expecting some sort of a reaction, but some of it was very intense, and I wasn't really ready for that… It's representative of real life, and to exclude [LGBT] characters from the show in order to not offend some people, I think would be a really mixed message to send."



15) The opening sequence of season six strongly recalls the Lord of the Rings trilogy both visually and tonally. And that's all we'll say about that.

16) We've seen a lot of characters give up and even contemplate suicide at different moments throughout the show – would Daryl ever get to that point, now that he's lost so much? "I don't think Daryl would ever give up, ever. I think he's not that type of a person, I think he's pretty much grown up with his back against a wall, and I don't know that he would ever back down." Amen.

17) Don't expect Alexandria's democratic society to survive in its current form. Per Feldshuh: "With Pete, I sacrificed due process of law for swift justice, so as season six opens we're back in the wild west."

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