![]() ![]() After rendezvousing with the others, Rick (Andrew Lincoln) reveals a truth he’d kept secret: Everyone is infected, and everyone turns when they die. Daryl, hearing Carol’s screams, goes back to save her but not without a “I ain’t got all day” remark, providing an early glimpse into their rapport. ![]() The interpersonal drama is cut short once walkers overrun the farm and the survivors start to scatter in all directions. In the process of trying to reassert himself as an angry loner, Daryl berates her, even blaming her for the loss of her daughter, while she swallows her feelings, telling him to “go on.” It’s the first real moment between the two, and with Carol’s learned resilience to constant abuse, she doesn’t succumb to his accusations, even though it clearly affects her. Once her mourning subsides, knowing that Daryl had been trying to pull away from the group himself, she tries to convince him to stay. ![]() It’s their first hint of camaraderie, and Daryl’s first indication that he cares more for those in his group than he’d been letting on.ĭaryl even stays with Carol afterwards, up to the funeral, which Carol refuses to attend, explaining that “Sophia died a long time ago,” openly expressing her relief that her daughter never went hungry, never went to sleep scared. The end of the world has been hard on everyone, but Carol finds herself overwhelmed with hopelessness, having lost her entire family so early on. “Don’t look,” he tells her, as he tries to shield her from the carnage. “It’s for your little girl.”Ĭarol’s daughter Sophia spent the first half of the second season missing, only to be discovered staggering out of Hershel’s barn, having long since turned. As Carol runs toward her crying amidst the massacre started by Shane (Joe Bernthal), it’s Daryl who holds her back. ![]() Over time, their stories continued to intertwine well beyond that of two people who share a desire to survive this new world, and over time Carol and Daryl, (or Caryl, if you prefer), have evolved into a kind of platonic power couple ideally suited for the zombie apocalypse. When they first appeared, Daryl was a wiry, high-strung survivalist tweaker covered in squirrel pelts, and Carol was little more than a marginal character defined almost solely by her abusive husband who relegated her to gossip-free laundry duty. While it has helped give the generally grim show some necessary moments of levity, it also provides a metric of how these two characters have changed as a result of the world around them. Since their introductions in the early days of The Walking Dead, the relationship between Carol (Melissa McBride) and Daryl (Norman Reedus) has grown from indifference into a caring, familiar, occasionally flirty back-and-forth. Her evolution as a character is so visible and shows how Melissa McBride really knows her character. But will she survive the last part of the show which will most likely air this summer? Only time will tell.Warning: Spoilers for all five seasons of The Walking Dead below She’s indefinitely one of the main characters whose arc has been the meatiest. And had no problem defending herself or those she loves. How did Carol manage to stay alive all these years? Especially after all the enemies that have tried to take her out? Well, she got stronger and colder at times (usually making the decisions that nobody else wanted to-just look at the flowers, ugh), and she went from a meek character who was scared to say anything-to someone who could more than hold her own in basically any scenario. But then they kept her around, and now she’s one of the most important characters in the show. And the series was ready to kill her off during the Prison arc. In fact, Carol doesn’t last long in the comics. And the interesting part of her lasting this long is, that wasn’t always going to be the case. The answer to that big question is that she did! Yes, Carol is still kicking it (alive) with the undead. If you haven’t caught up in the show in years, you may be wondering if she stayed alive (can’t help but think of the Bee Gees hit?) all this time. She was a housewife with an abusive husband who wasn’t adapting to the new world as quickly as some of the other characters. During the beginning of the series, Carol (Melissa McBride) was the kind of character you’d expect to die quickly. Ultimately in a zombie apocalypse, death is a given. Let’s face it, The Walking Dead has never been scared to kill main characters off-either in the comics or in the hit AMC series. ![]()
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