(Spoiler alert: Do not keep reading if you have not seen the Season 6 Finale of “The Walking Dead”)

“The Walking Dead” fans are still smoldering over the cliffhanger ending of the Season 6 finale, but series star Andrew Lincoln thinks the episode did exactly what it was supposed to do.

“I’m sorry the fans are angry about it because I think it’s a very thrilling and shocking way to leave a season,” Lincoln told TheWrap. “People have four or five months to recover from that. And conversely, from a writing standpoint, it’s daring what they’re doing. As a returning episode, to kill one of us to start the season? It’s not the usual way one would start off as a writer.”

But Lincoln also said he understands why the fans are upset, but cautions that any reaction to a dramatic work is an important one.

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“People are well within their rights to feel whatever they want,” he said. “If they feel robbed, it’s a completely valid thing. But a guttural reaction, an upset, that’s the point of drama. I don’t go to a theater or movie and not feel things. I want to feel things.”

In Sunday’s episode, Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) made his long awaited debut. Lincoln says that working with Morgan was a real pleasure despite their characters’ hatred for one another.

“It’s an amazing entrance. What he did was so brilliant,” Lincoln said. “Obviously, I hated him during it. I sort of bore holes into his very heart for two nights.”

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“But it’s an astonishing entrance by all accounts. He’s this phenomenally accomplished brilliant actor and he came and he brought it. He knocked it out of the park–which is a sloppy expression here given the events of the episode,” he said with a laugh.