"The Walking Dead" Season 4 Spoilers ahead! I'd avoid reading if you haven't caught up but if you have then read on!

A "happy ending" for "The Walking Dead" season 4 finale sounds weird, isn't it? When it comes to season finale "The Walking Dead" has always been disastrous and sad. However, things will change this year, "The Walking Dead" comic book writer and executive producer Robert Kirkman told TV Guide it will be better for the group by the time season 4 of "The Walking Dead" ends.

"We started the season pretty hopeful and pretty optimistic," said Robert Kirkman to TV Guide.

"We'll open our last half of the season pretty bleak and we'll move them to something a little more hopeful by the end," he added.

Showrunner Scott Gimple has said this season would be like a "remix" of the comic books. In the comics, after the prison battle, Rick and the survivors meet three new people and follow them on the road to Washington, D.C. They never quite fulfil those plans but they do end up at a place called the "Alexandria Safe-Zone" in Alexandria, Virginia. Maybe this is "the sanctuary" that was teased on the radio back on that drive to the veterinary college, earlier in the season?

It is good news to hear the ending of the season might be more hopeful. Back in November, Norman Reedus talked to Vulture while shooting the finale, which will air at the end of March. "It's a very ambitious episode; they went big with it," he said.

Andrew Lincoln also teased some big stuff coming up. As he told Yahoo TV, "There are two episodes that I absolutely adore in the back eight, one of which I think is going to be the most controversial episode that we've probably ever been involved in, and that's saying something."

It sounds like there's a lot of fascinating stuff ahead, good and bad. If things get a bit more hopeful, maybe that's another hint to baby Judith not only being alive but possibly reuniting with her dad and brother.

"The Walking Dead" returns on February 9.