The Walking Dead finale

[maystone]

Because you can't do spoiler cuts on freakin' FaceBook. I'm just going to paste something I wrote to my brother earlier. He thought the Rick/Joe ending was unrealistic. So my response follows. Feel free to jump in and comment. And I hope I do this right. It's been years since I've done a cut.

Comments

[maystone]

See, I never found morally-conflicted Rick to be boring. Annoying? Hell yes. But they've been showing this dark side since he killed Shane. I was really taken by how he started yelling at Shane's corpse, "This is you! This isn't me! This is on you!" He was rationalizing it to himself immediately. And later he blamed it on Lori, of course. He beat the shit out Tyreese (and rightfully so), and he went waaaay the hell overboard in his reaction to Carol. Now that's the reunion I want to see. I want him to see that it was Carol who kept Judith alive, and it was Carol who did the unimaginably hard thing of killing Lizzie - because it had to be done. I think Rick bansihed Carol because she scared the hell out of him by reflecting back to him the brutal reality he was hiding from

[travestine]

What I really loved about AL on TD was how deeply he thinks about his character, the storylines and the WD world. He is sooo into it. I think it's great that he (and I imagine the others) are so into their characters - who they are, the changes they are going through, how the changes in their world are affecting them and their relationships

[maystone]

I can see where Daryl was coming from, though. He was brought up with that kind of casual violence. Remember the story he told Beth about almost getting killed by the meth-head? And the scars on his back from his dad beating the crap out of him? Before he hooked up with Rick, that was what he would consider normal: someone crosses you, you take him down. But these guys weren't just mean; they were depraved. I don't believe Daryl saw that in them until it was too late.

[budclare]

And Carol did the right thing. She was trying to stop a contagion that was turning people INSIDE THE PRISON into walkers.Carol killed them after they were quarantined, after the damage had already been done. And even if you handwave that away, she still got the girl with the limp and the boy with the recently dislocated shoulder killed for no good reason. They did not need to "pull their own weight" right that minute or in that particular way. They have people more able-bodied than those two who pull their weight in ways other than making supply runs

[travestine]

There was no way they were going to survive - they had no drugs that could respond to that kind of sickness, they were clearly getting sicker and they all knew that when people died, they turned. Did Carole act too quickly? Maybe. But Carole made a lot of tough calls that others wouldn't make - like teaching kids to survive instead of reading them happy puppy stories. She wasn't panicking - nothing indicated panic in her behavour. Clearly, whatever the contagion was - it was spreading. She was trying to contain it. What characters are you talking about that she 'got killed