11 things we just learned about the new season 

11 things we just learned about the new season of 'The Walking Dead'

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When "The Walking Dead" returns to AMC in October, Rick, Maggie, King Ezekiel and their respective communities will go head-to-head with Negan and his Saviors.

INSIDER attended both the show\'s press conference and panel at New York Comic Con to learn more about the upcoming season. Keep reading to see what we learned about season eight.

We'll learn a little bit more about Negan.

"I think you\'re finding out more and more about Negan and a little bit of who he is," Jeffrey Dean Morgan told press.

During the Comic Con panel, Morgan said we\'ll see "slivers" of Negan\'s past.

Daryl will make a mistake he regrets this season.

Daryl (Norman Reedus) will appear on his motorcycle on the season eight premiere.

When a reporter asked the cast what moment from the show their character has regretted the most, Norman Reedus said there\'s one on this upcoming season for him.

Don't expect to get any sort of flashbacks for Enid this season.

"I would love to see more on her background, but I don\'t think necessarily this season [that will happen]," the actress behind Enid, Katelyn Nacon told INSIDER Saturday at New York Comic Con\'s press conference. "I think a lot of it\'s seeing her progress more into an adult and a woman pretty much."

You can read more from our conversation with Nacon here.

When the foul-mouthed Negan was introduced on the show at the end of season six, many were concerned the character would be watered down. He\'s known for his colorful language and affinity for dropping the F word.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan joked that the network made the decision a year too late to journalists.

"You\'re going to get two in a year," Morgan made clear to press. He then suggested characters would be fighting to get to use the word, but we\'d be surprised if they didn\'t go to Negan for some of his iconic uses of the word.

Negan really doesn't want Carol to enter the fight.

Will Carol be baking cookies? Melissa McBride says she may be cooking up something else.

Melissa McBride was asked at the show\'s press conference whether or not she\'ll be the warrior we\'ve seen on previous seasons or if she\'ll struggle with all of the violence and bloodshed as she has a bit recently.

"Maybe the both," said McBride. "We\'ll see her fight, but she has to. But that doesn\'t mean she needs to."

"You don\'t have to fight," Morgan quickly joked to much laughter.

There\'s a good reason he wouldn\'t want Carol joining the fight. She did take down all of Terminus almost single-handedly on season five.

Daryl and Dwight's relationship is like a game of cat and mouse.

"In season seven, Daryl kind of gets an understanding of a little bit of what I\'m going through. We\'re kind of assessing each other out the entire time. I think that will continue for awhile," said Austin Amelio of Dwight\'s relationship with Daryl.

"It\'s a cat and mouse game," added Norman Reedus. "You have sympathy for each other\'s characters because you do things in this world you wouldn\'t normally do and so you understand that if you\'ve been there. You go back and forth. Can you trust him? Can you not trust him? Are you on our side? Are you not on our side? It\'s like every relationship."

We call him Old Man Rick, but Lincoln referred to him as Old Man Grimes at the NYCC press conference for the show.

An older Rick with a much fuller, greyer beard was teased in a season eight "Walking Dead" trailer. Lincoln said he didn\'t like the beard because "it was itchy."

Episode director and makeup effects guru Greg Nicotero said he designed the beard for Rick.

Rick has been campaigning to have his arm chopped off for some time.

That is the one thing that I have been campaigning for for a long time, for them to chop my arm off," Lincoln told press.

Unfortunately, it sounds like it would be both a hassle technically for Rick Grimes to use a gun and for the show\'s budget. You can read more about the show\'s decision over the years to not chop off Rick\'s hand like in the comics and the series\' flirtation with it anyway.

Norman Reedus says the entire season is "ambitious."

Rick and Daryl on season eight of "The Walking Dead."

"It\'s great writing and great acting and every single episode of the season is full-on. It\'s 100 miles an hour," said Reedus during the press conference.

The season eight premiere has nods to previous seasons.

AMC debuted the clip Greg Nicotero was referring to which mirrors the show\'s first episode.

"If you watch it and you know the show pretty well, you will see things that are direct callbacks to previous episodes," episode director Greg Nicotero told press.

One of those nods is a near shot-for-shot recreation of the very first scene from the pilot episode.

Andrew Lincoln says season eight feels like the early seasons of the show.

"It moves very, very quickly — the story," Lincoln told the fans at New York Comic Con during the show\'s panel. "It feels like it\'s reminiscent of seasons one through four."

That\'s certainly felt on the season eight premiere. You can read our spoiler-free review here.

SEE ALSO: Our spoiler-free review of "The Walking Dead" season 8

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