As per every season, the fifth installment of 'The Walking Dead' featured many deaths of some very prominent characters.

One of the more hard-hitting deaths was with actor Chad L. Coleman's character Tyreese. While he is now indefinitely off the show, he had a chance to sit down and speak with IGN about the Blu-Ray release of Season 5.

In response to how they sent his character off, Coleman commented about being content with the episode:

"I was very happy. I thought it was a beautiful homage to the man and it had a big ballad-type feel to it. And it sort of echoed a lot of the complexities and strengths of Tyreese. I was very very pleased with the way it all went down. I thought Greg captured the perfect way as to how Tyreese should go out. With a certain dignity and class. But there was also an incredible fight going on, that much of the team was a part of, trying to keep this man alive. And that was just emblematic of how they all felt about him. So I thought it hit all the notes. And if you didn't know who this man was prior to that episode, then, even though he went out, you knew who he was by the time he expired."

Tyreese regrettably didn't make it to the safe haven of Alexandria, however Coleman offers his thoughts on how things would have been different had he survived up until then:

"Well, he certainly would have given it the old college try. And that's actually part of the reason why he had to go. Everything's predicated off of Rick, so if Tyreese was present then the challenges that Rick needed to go through would have been impeded. Rick really needed to experience all of that, in Alexandria, without having that voice of reason. The objections that Tyreese would have made. Rick had to find that within himself. So if Rick had Tyreese there to lean on, I don't know that his development would have been the same. To really internalize where they were trying to take Rick, to be able to experience the decisions he had to make, I think he needed me not to be there. And, in certain respects, he came around. By the end of the season. He came full circle, and even though people were looking at him in sort of a tainted way, he showed them who he is."

'The Walking Dead: The Complete Fifth Season' is available on DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday, August 25th.