His character swings so wildly between crazy/sane violent/non-violent you get whiplash. Morgan is everything wrong with Carol multiplied by 100. The only other character in The Walking Dead treated as badly as Carol is Morgan (Lennie James). ![]() Michonne eventually faced her demons and came back from the edge-only to be written off the show in one of the absolute worst possible ways I can imagine ( leaving her children behind without a word in the midst of a desperate battle for survival against the Whisperers). Even if it’s because they’re trying to show how traumatized she is, it seems like it’s spinning its wheels endlessly rather than actually dealing with that trauma and letting Carol grow. How is this fair to one of the show’s only two remaining Season 1 survivors? Why do we have to drag out this misery for so long? What is the point? The show seems determined to make Carol unlikable. She gets bad, rambling dialogue with Jerry. Instead of getting a really interesting bottle episode like Gabriel and Aaron were given, or an interesting backstory like Daryl’s brief romance with Leah (even if that episode was a bit weak) Carol gets to chase a rat and make soup with zombie-blood-covered hands. Carol never manages to emerge from all of this suffering and distress as a fully evolved, badass survivor. Then things start to improve for her but never for long. She’s also a liar, immediately pretending to be somebody she isn’t when she is first introduced to the Kingdom. After the near-thing with the Saviors when she and Maggie were captured, Carol goes off to be on her own (just before Ezekiel finds her). She even devolves into some weird, temporary madness at one point and starts seeing hallucinations.Īnd it’s been like this for a long time. ![]() He’s manly and gruff and stoic and always forgiven for his mistakes.Ĭarol, on the other hand, is treated like someone who can’t even make soup. Why not? Because he’s still treated like a guy who has most of his marbles intact. He played a pretty big part in getting all those heads-including Henry’s-put on spikes. In my (perhaps a little too harsh) review of last night’s episode, I said that I didn’t think Daryl should apologize for yelling at Carol but a reader pointed out that Daryl has made plenty of his own foolish blunders in the past. She doesn’t deserve to be written as this crazy, unbalanced, unreliable maker of terrible decisions. It isn’t fair to Carol to have so much of those placed on her shoulders, no matter how traumatizing her life has been.
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