You make her out to be this random killing machine, but clearly that is not the case. Carol has often had to kill people b/c she is under attack to survive, just as they all have. She killed the Termites to save her friends from Cannibals. She gave Paula a chance to live, and only killed her in self defense. She killed Lizzie b/c she was crazy and killed her sister, for the protection of Judith and anyone else. She killed Karen & David at the Prison (wrongly) b/c she thought she was protecting the entire group from dying from illness. She has killed to survive and to save her loved ones in the group. Thanks for taking the hear, balls, and soul away from the best character on TWD! This post was nearly impossible to write without a hundred f-bombs.Ĭarol doesn’t kill who gets in her way. This arc was the WORST and does not bode well for the future of the show. This is the worst thing that has happened on this show since the “Search For Sofia.” But really, it might be even worse than that because I’m not sure how the writers would come back from this slide into mediocrity even if they were so motivated (and it doesn’t seem like they are). Way to go TWD, you’ve managed to neuter one of your few strengths. It’s horrible! There aren’t a lot of consistently interesting characters on this show, Carol is one of the few that always has gripping story lines, until this hamfisted, unbelievable, clustercuss of a character arc was foisted upon her. There is no room for anyone to collapse into absolute pacifism in the world of TWD and the character that I would believe this crap from the least is Carol. I would have rather seen her get killed in a hail of bullets then succumbing to the mopes. The writer’s are ruining this awesome character. Perhaps a lot of writers left to work on that show.Ĭarol going soft is GARBAGE. I feel it really started to slip when Fear the Walking Dead came on. Hopefully the writers will step up their game on character development and evolution for the rest of them. I also enjoy Enid’s character’s complexity and her JSS symbol and will to survive. She was a breath of fresh air, and had the hope and all that potential development wasted. I was also sad to see Merritt Weaver’s character die at this point. Though I guess that it would be a better fit for Rick and Daryl. Heck, she and Morgan should get their own spin-off! Like the Zombified “Dukes of Hazzard”. She is smart, clever, strong, complex and continually evolving. There is so much going on inside, so much to the Carol character. Melissa McBride’s performances are never one note. However, Morgan knew she shouldn’t die b/c she was in pain. She faced death willingly by choice, like a champion, not a victim. She is even brave and tough when she let’s the last of Neegan’s men shoot her several times in penance. When she took off at the end of the show and shot an entire group of Neegan’s men with a AK-47 sewn in her sleeve. The episode she owned playing against Alicia Witt’s character. Have you noticed that many of those episodes of stellar writing involve Carol? As when she almost single handedly dispatched the Wolves. I hope the writer’s on the show sharpen the writing and find all of the character’s, and the show’s moral core once again. I only hope she comes out of it making some peace with how she had to survive, but stronger b/c of it. If it were not for Carol’s continuing evolution I’m not sure I’d tune in. I really enjoyed Carol’s arc from abused to tough, do whatever it takes to survive, but it came at a price. ![]() It diminished the difference between the groups, and without a moral core, who do you root for? That our group are the moral group is the big draw of the show. I was also really turned off by Rick & Co. If they don’t change what makes them different from Neegan’s group? If you lose your humanity, is there anything worth fighting for? That said, I sure hope they don’t pull any stunts where they pulled the punch on who died at the end of the season. These characters are all facing a reckoning. ![]() It is also clear that Rick is meeting his potential future self in Neegan. I think Morgan in giving the man who shot Carol at the end a chance to surrender, and shooting him upon his refusal may be achieving a happy medium. ![]() There should be some middle ground between being ruthless but at the price of your humanity and being weak like Carol was in the beginning. Being a killer is not, or should not, be a natural state. Exactly! When she saw herself in Alicia Witt’s character, it showed her what she was going to become or had become and she could no longer shove down the pain of having killed so many.
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