This episode really highlighted Daryl & Carol's differences when it comes to their shared values of protecting the vulnerable from abuse.  Carol is more uncompromising when it comes to protecting the innocent. She will destabilize everything if she has to. She acts from her trauma. Daryl is a bit more pragmatic, he weighs the risk.  Maybe the line-up situation has him thinking: "if we stop this, do we doom everyone else?"

I think that Carol has opened her heart since reaching some kind of peace over Sophia. The way she was looking with warmth at the two young lovers, while Daryl was "whatever." LOL! I prefer this version of Carol. She seems more human if though a bit more reckless. Daryl, on the other hand, just seems over it all. He just wants to go home.

I liked it.  I do wish we'd start moving from "this is what we have to do to survive" themes to "this is how we rebuild society" themes but I don't know if we'll ever see that.

I was thinking the same, but then I realized that is a fantasy. No matter how hard we try to build up our community and do good, there are always monsters who want to burn it all down. Look at the world we are currently living in...