This week's Walking Dead took the post-prison group I least cared about and gave them the most surprisingly intense and emotional story of the bunch.
I never anticipated this episode going as full-tilt as it did. And I certainly didn't expect to have the feels I felt. Because, man, that was rough and shockingly hard to watch. In a good way, of course.
So I'll just jump right into it. That scene where Carol shot Old Yeller, sorry I mean Lizzie was excruciating. It was the right enough of coldness on its own, and they could have played Lizzie as being way more toned down emotionally than she was, but instead they had her cry and scream that she was sorry. That she was sorry and "Please don't be mad at me!" That's right. She wasn't pleading for her life. She was bawling because she didn't want Carol, of all things, to be mad at her. She had no idea what was about to happen.
Not only was Lizzie's death a powerful scene, but so was Carol and Tyreese discovering Mika's dead body. With Lizzie having killed her sister to prove to them that she'd come back and wont hurt them. Add to that the fact that Judith was next in line was chilling. The excellent work by Melissa McBride as Carol had to somehow not act completely traumatized by the sight of Mika's body so that she could calmly convince Lizzie to put the gun down and go inside.
She can't be around other people," is what Carol kept telling Tyreese over and over until he understood what needed to happen. Because Lizzie and Judith couldn't be together, and if they separated into two groups they'd all be done for. He now understanding that sometimes we're called upon to do monstrous things in the name of survival. So he allowed himself at the end to forgive Carol for killing Karen.
If Carol had confessed to killing Karen in the scene she and Tyreese had together ten minutes earlier, when Tyreese was holding the gun and we weren't sure if he secretly knew it was her or of she'd be guilted into revealing the truth, he probably would have killed her.
I never anticipated this episode going as full-tilt as it did. And I certainly didn't expect to have the feels I felt. Because, man, that was rough and shockingly hard to watch. In a good way, of course.
So I'll just jump right into it. That scene where Carol shot Old Yeller, sorry I mean Lizzie was excruciating. It was the right enough of coldness on its own, and they could have played Lizzie as being way more toned down emotionally than she was, but instead they had her cry and scream that she was sorry. That she was sorry and "Please don't be mad at me!" That's right. She wasn't pleading for her life. She was bawling because she didn't want Carol, of all things, to be mad at her. She had no idea what was about to happen.
Not only was Lizzie's death a powerful scene, but so was Carol and Tyreese discovering Mika's dead body. With Lizzie having killed her sister to prove to them that she'd come back and wont hurt them. Add to that the fact that Judith was next in line was chilling. The excellent work by Melissa McBride as Carol had to somehow not act completely traumatized by the sight of Mika's body so that she could calmly convince Lizzie to put the gun down and go inside.
She can't be around other people," is what Carol kept telling Tyreese over and over until he understood what needed to happen. Because Lizzie and Judith couldn't be together, and if they separated into two groups they'd all be done for. He now understanding that sometimes we're called upon to do monstrous things in the name of survival. So he allowed himself at the end to forgive Carol for killing Karen.
If Carol had confessed to killing Karen in the scene she and Tyreese had together ten minutes earlier, when Tyreese was holding the gun and we weren't sure if he secretly knew it was her or of she'd be guilted into revealing the truth, he probably would have killed her.