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...

I really enjoyed episode 2. The young lovers running away and their fear of being torn apart was moving. The whole tense dynamic of that community felt realist. It felt like they were really trying to do the best they could to survive. Giving up one young girl didn't feel like a huge price to pay for safety or resources even if they broke the hearts of their parents. I get that. It isn't like Negan trying humiliate and brutally oppress them, but it is insidious, destroying their sense of community as it tries to maintain the façade of happiness.. I was surprised uncle was smiling so hard with no fear when he opened the ribbon, then when his man took the ribbons off the pigs, I began suspect that the "lottery" was rigged.


Daryl trying to stop Carol from speaking her mind at the meal was hilarious. He clearly wants to stay out of the drama. Just leave and fix the boat. Although I don't know how he and Carol who don't know how to sail could possibly make their way back to the U.S. alive. I hope Daryl threw the bodies of all those men into the cage with the walkers.


I have never been to Spain. I enjoyed the scenery. It is beautiful.

I finally watched the 1st episode - Daryl & Carol are always so good on the screen together.  I felt they could have leaned more into Julian's "only human left theme" in contrast to them.  Daryl & Carol have always had people but their instinct is often flight, withdraw or disappear. Survival = running.  Julian was the opposite.  Alone for so long, his whole motivation was connection.  Survival = reaching out.  What is the correct balance between those two things?  A line from Julian saying "I'd rather die reaching out to people than live running away from them" Only to have Julian die & Carol disappear would have tied things up neatly.  Maybe it's too on the nose, idk. 

A ruined London was pretty cool/awful to see. 

I thought it was excellent. I did not like the end. I screamed when Daryl went back to the shack "CAROL BETTER NOT BE GONE!!!"  But, of course, she was.. as I knew she would be. It is predictable, but so good to see. I will never be satisfied until they are back on US soil.