Her evolution from a meek and battered housewife, barely speaking a few lines per episode, to a complicated and efficient killer had more to do with her daughter Sophia’s death than the influence of any particular character. Though she has generally followed Rick’s herd from location to location, her personal story has unfolded almost independently of his. (The Dissolve’s Tasha Robinson expertly unpacks more Strong Female Characters here.) The Walking Dead itself nearly established another useless trope with its handling of Andrea and Lori, the “Woman Constantly Making Out-of-Character, Terrible Decisions.”īut Carol is different.
#CAROL TWD TV#
Women in action films and TV are frequently relegated to a handful of established tropes: the damsel in distress, the romantic interest, or, most frustratingly, the “Strong Female Character” who is just as smart, capable, and complex as her male counterparts (sometimes more so!) but nonetheless ends up useless to the plot, like Wyldstyle in The Lego Movie, or Trinity in The Matrix. Carol is a woman and middle-aged, yet nobody’s sidekick. Carol is a butcher and now the show’s most fascinating-and formidable-character. In fact, most of “No Sanctuary” grappled with a question that Carol figured out for herself a long time ago: Are you the butcher or the cattle? By the time Carol is finished blowing Terminus apart, leaving dozens to die in order to save her friends, the answer is pretty clear. (And we all remember what happened to Lizzie, the unhinged kid who murdered her sister and would have killed baby Judith had Carol not, ahem, intervened.) They had to die, even if it meant killing off two friends. When a deadly virus overtook the prison, Carol was also the only person facing facts: With no doctors or hospitals, there was no way the infected were going to make it-but the longer they stayed alive, the higher the chance the virus would spread.
#CAROL TWD HOW TO#
She spent weeks going behind Rick’s back to teach children at the prison how to kill, back when she was the only adult not in denial about the fact that, hello, we’re in the freaking apocalypse, people must know how to kill to survive. Carol’s bravery has long outpaced that of her companions, though until now most of them, especially Rick, weren’t exactly on board with it.
#CAROL TWD SERIES#
The woman will shoot, stab, or blow up all threats while her friends are busy monologuing for the 89th time about "what makes us human?" Without Carol, last night’s episode “No Sanctuary” could have served as an abrupt series finale as Rick, Daryl, Glenn, and Bob got their throats cut open and limbs hacked off by bloodthirsty Terminans.īut then, this isn’t news.
But if Sunday’s Season 5 premiere proved one thing, it’s that Rick Grimes, while still our main protagonist, isn’t really the hero of the zombie apocalypse.Ĭarol Peletier, as played by Melissa McBride, not only has more balls than any member of Rick’s adopted family (and definitely more than several Governors combined), she’s also their best hope for survival. It’s unclear if Carol ever even learned that W meant wolves, she just knew about the W (and used that knowledge to deadly advantage).The Walking Dead has, ostensibly, been the story of an Atlanta cop who woke up in a hospital one day to find the world in walker-infested chaos. Terminus / Courtyard = Carol’s sniper kills after blowing up a propane tank and sending Terminus into chaos.Ĭandle Woman = Mary, one of the cannibals from Terminus. K, D = Karen and David, two sick members of the prison group that Carol killed and burnt to try and stop the spread of disease. R = Ryan Samuels, Lizzie and Mika’s father. Let’s go through what all those letters mean. What was it? It turns out it’s a compilation of all the times she’s killed a living person. Is Alexandria making her soft? Or did the old caring Carol never really disappear? We only know what The Walking Dead shows us, and last week they showed Carol working on a mysterious list. From respecting Morgan’s desire to avoid killing to leaving a cookie on the grave of Sam, that episode had us seeing an old side to Carol Peletier that many thought was gone forever. We know that soft exterior she presents to the residents of Alexandria is a show, but maybe that hard interior she’s got going on is a bit of a ruse, as well. The “Not Tomorrow Yet” episode of The Walking Dead spent a lot of time focusing on Carol, which is cool by us as Carol has transformed over six seasons into one of the most badass characters on the show.
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