The Walking Dead: I mean I'M JUST SAYIN' OKAY
Series-wide themes for The Walking Dead, continued! ( S1 & 2 themes here.) Gettin' right down to the real nitty-gritty really this time! Starting with, the big three overarching motifs I've actually noticed: time, water, and signs. (Well, and also using injuries/appearance/behaviour to signal links between characters, but I'll get to that later.)
( I have, like ... a lot of the Big Three )
( I have, like ... a lot of the Big Three )
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I love reading all your thoughts because a) super interesting, and b) just... man, the show is even MOAR complex and impressively constructed once it's all laid out there right in front of me. ILU show.
The time thing is an interesting one... particularly around Glenn and Maggie (/rampant speculation)... because if we assume that Hershel giving the watch to Glenn was indeed, in conjunction with the Falkner story, Hershel giving Glenn (and by extension Maggie) the gift of time, it also really does underscore, as you say, that it's not going to last. That it's the gift of the temporary release from time's tyranny, that once you let the moment go by you can never get it back.I may be reading too much into things (don't care), but Glenn lost the watch. Or rather, it was taken from him. He was, in a way, marked for time to run out. And last we saw, Maggie had it. I just... I'm developing a very, very bad feeling about Glenn, with all his 'this is still who we are, it has to be' in the context of a season that ( ... )
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I just wanted to say, the more I think about it, the more hopeful I am for Beth, actually. Because I was trying to figure out how the time motif with Daryl restarting the clock went further than just the dog (which seemed a bit too weaksauce to be the full story), and might factor into him running into Rick again as the this state won't last thing. And it wasn't until today that I remembered how he yelled at Beth about how everyone else may as well be dead because the two of them were never gonna see them again, and specifically how he namechecks exactly two people: "an' Rick - you ain't NEVER gonna see Maggie again!" (their respective older siblings, which, upon him reuniting with Rick, Rick makes "official"), and, BINGO BANGO, assumptions about how things would continue. And still contra-themed, since he, unlike everyone else so far, assumes the bad circumstances will continue, and takes steps - like trying to find new community with weirdo morticians - to alleviate it; and it's the steps he ( ... )
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Also, y'know what, apart from my previously mentioned reasons, I am *also* inclined to think Beth is going to be ok precisely because she *is* arguably the physically weakest still-standing member of the group. With, I guess, the exception of Judi, except that Judi has the benefit of literally every member of the pack in her vicinity looking out for her, not least of which include her father, brother, de facto big bro Daryl. I mean, talk about a pretorian guard. But I digress. Beth.
Because she's arguably the physically weakest member, and because you and I at least, know that show is not stupid... Show is not going to separate off the weakest member of the pack only to kill her. I don't think. Because... well, frankly kinda too predictable and boring.
...but see, now that I've gone and said that out loud... the fact that this group is so pack like, is now making me worry that show has deliberately picked off and isolated the most ( ... )
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That's the thing, though - as determined as she was to change, to become capable of not needing Daryl, as long as he was there, he was NEVER gonna let her have to learn to walk on her own (SYMBOLISM OK), as he did, never relying on anyone for anything. EVEN THOUGH SHE'S HEAVIER THAN SHE LOOKS BECAUSE DESPITE APPEARANCES SHE'S NOT JUST A LITTLE GIRL ANYMORE, SHE IS GROWING UP. This was the only way she could finish her metamorphosis. And he his - they were each other's cocoon. AND NOW THEY ARE BE-YEWTIFUL BUTTERFLIES. BE-YEWTIFUL BADASS TOUGH SUMBITCH BUTTERFLIES YES THEY ARE.
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