endersjane:Okay, so I have really been trying my hardest to keep my expectations low where Caryl is
endersjane:Okay, so I have really been trying my hardest to keep my expectations low where Caryl is concerned lately. Much like Carol, I think I realized at some point that giving in to love usually ends up in loss and disappointment and so I just tried to keep my sweet babies together in my heart but accept the fact that they might decide to string us/them along for a very long time. Or never allow them to heal together at all. To the point that I started forcing myself to repeat a mantra of sorts as we were gearing up for this season - after the news that they won’t be reunited until two months into next YEAR. Something along the lines of - You get nothing this season. Deal with it! (My inner voice is sometimes pretty abusive.) But YOU GUYS! Something is going ON here. I don’t know that I ever allowed myself to really have faith that this plan the actors and such like to allude to was really real but holy crap! Everyone was all speculating about some tenuous connection between Daryl and Shiva back at the end of last season - when Negan pointed Lucile at him and very directly referenced the “tiger”. But I guess I thought maybe it was just a very vague easter eggy type thing at best. If anything. And now here we are, post-“The Well” and we have: Negan indeed catching Daryl at the end of the lineup. Daryl panicking in the back of the truck in a way that multiple people have described as being “like an animal.” (And now that I am making this connection, I feel like his movements look very much cat-like.) Ezekiel having this very deep conversation with Carol trying to encourage her not to turn away from love and friendship and in the middle of it taking precious minutes of screentime to explain to her what this pet wild animal of his means to him. That he loves her, singularly. That she came to protect him and would now never hurt him because they were both suffering and alone when he found her and because he tended to her wounds when she was injured. And that she helped him get where he is. And then knowing that, even though they reversed the order, the episode where Daryl is “trapped and alone” is still butted up right next to hers.I just want to scream. I don’t think there can really be any argument that this was a direct parallel to Daryl, and he used the word “LOVE”!And her face when he says the word “love”….it’s like she’s thinking “Yeah, I know what you mean.” It’s almost the same face she made when she was watching Daryl dig that grave (except less sad.)I’m still not sure if I can let myself believe they will actually establish them as canon this season (maybe because I still need to protect my heart). And frankly, STILL, my only real wish for them is just for them to be able to be with each other again in any capacity as long as it’s regular and consistent. But in my mind they have now said the words. It’s just a matter of waiting for it to play out now.Caryling on….Over and out. -- source link
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