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Warned, you were.

I'm not going into very much detail, but if you haven't watched the episode prior to the one I am going to post about, it will reveal something which will spoil a surprise. And a bit about this one too.















Okay.

I'm a bit weirded out by the last episode I watched. Season 6, episode 13 apparently (I had to look it up as I don't keep track).

Everything I have now read online - and I never pre-read reviews for this series, although I'm happy to read the graphic novels - has suggested that Carol is having a crisis of conscience. It's completely accepted by all reviewers and fans, and by an interview with Melissa McBride.

I think I must be far far worse at interpretation than I thought, because I swear the character was playing possum all the way through. I mean yes, some regret. But not that she was genuinely thinking about Jesus and atoning for her sins etc. And okay, it didn't stop her burning people alive. But these people wanted to kill her, to kill her pregnant friend, were not genuinely interested in a trade (what a SHAME! Alicia Witt would have been magical in Rick's group).
Carol killed a child with less compunction. She killed two people who might or might not have been ill.
Now she's fretting about killing the bad guys?!

I know it fits.
I completely accept that the cumulative effect and the responsibility and the horror could catch up on her, so I'm not criticising the writing. Or the acting.
I just feel bad for reading it so wrong.

Maybe all those people I killed really were quite nice human beings...