Mondays are terrible again. :(

I guess I just have a harder time seeing it as in-character when the group is right there and she knows that Maggie and Judith are alive and waiting for her (which I assume Carol told her, even though they never did deign to show us any interaction between the two of them. Which I think was a huge missed opportunity.)…

That's 100% what will happen. It will probably take another 4 or 5 seasons and 2 or 3 showrunners, but eventually they will tell the same story ten different ways and the zombie kills, occasional likeable characters, and brief stretches of competent characterization and storytelling won't be enough to keep people…

It was super inane. All I can come up with is that they wanted Daryl to kill Dawn after Dawn killed Beth because reasons.

If you can sum up a character's "job" on a show that they have been on for 3 1/2 seasons entirely in terms of an emotional reaction or growth by another character, then something has gone very, very wrong in the writer's room.

Agreed. Somehow Rick has quietly, throat bitingly, machete wieldingly, "let's just kill all of them", become one of the best characters on the show.

Characters on this show no longer do things for reasons. They find it sufficient to merely do things.

The only way to explain what Beth did is that: a. she snapped completely (which is dumb - it's been like ten days that she's been in that hospital); b. she wanted to kill herself (also dumb); or c. the writers needed her to die and they wanted to appease fans by having her die 'heroically', so whatever that was that…

I was just thinking that when I was driving into work this morning. For a show that has killed so many characters, the only three I remember being upset about were Herschel, Beth, and T-Dogg (and T-Dogg was mostly a case of annoyance that they had done so little with the actor's character, and less so sadness about…

Oh, absolutely! It can definitely be done - Firefly is a great example of that. Just not by these writers.

Rick's development this season has been the best thing about it so far. I feel like maybe Lincoln was just waiting to have some better material, because he's knocked it out of the park regularly as well.

I don't know if that will happen, but my Twitter feed indicates a general "negative" reaction to the episode. I see a lot of, "But why should I care about this character if you're just going to build them up and then kill them?" Which is what this review got at. It does seem a bit of an impossible choice that I think…

At first, I thought Sasha shot her and I was like, "??"

I find the writing is very "two steps forward, one step back". Sad as I was to lose Beth, the show needed to start culling the cast (although I would have started elsewhere, like with a certain priest…), because it's become clear that they cannot juggle such a large cast and develop characterization well. Last year,…

Eh, different takes. I can see your side, but I read it differently, especially given all those shots of Daryl looking tortured in the woods in the preview. I will say that, for me, Reedus sold the scene better than the script probably deserved to have it sold.

You're my favorite.

This is a valid observation, although I'm not sure I can watch her die again. It's like kicking puppies.

Yeah, it was a pretty clear case of "We need Beth to die so Beth must do this" rather than "Beth as a character would do this, and then that will organically lead to her death".

That was horrible. Way worse than Beth actually dying. I also read an interview with her in TV Line and they kept transcribing when she started crying, and… ugh. Sadness. :(

Best part of the episode, combined with his reaction to Beth when she walked over to the other side in the hospital corridor. Somehow, while falling apart on many other characters, this show has improved Rick moments immeasurably.