The One Where Daryl Is an Everylovin' Badass

Nov 13, 2011 21:10




Daryl comes out the gate cranky. I'm blaming it on him having to wear sleeves. He crankily makes a crack about people in hell wanting Slurpees when Hershel's people want guns. How is he real? He seems only focused and concerned about finding Sophia. Meanwhile, Shane and Rick argue with each other and are relatively uninspired searchers. Would y'all just look for the little girl without it turning into some sort of pissing match? Shane just needs to be smacked over the head with a shovel. I understand his reasonings, but GAHHHHHH.

Meanwhile, Daryl proves to be the most badass of the badass as he tries to climb back up a cliff he fell down with an arrow sticking out of his back. And he keeps falling down it. Merle shows up in Daryl's hallucinations to heckle him. I hate Merle so much. I mean I get Merle's reasoning. Merle is just one big ball of hate and he tries to drive Daryl through hate. Even when he's not there Daryl's sort of afraid of him in a way. Everything Daryl hears from Hallucination!Merle is his darkest fears. He wants to be accepted SO badly deep down, but he's been taught to fear and hate and having feelings is deeply confusing to him. And then Daryl realizes he's being attacked by walkers and goes threat level red badass on them. Hallucination!Merle keeps taunting Daryl and lo and behold Daryl responds by becoming the biggest freakin' badass this show has ever seen. He also eats a squirrel raw. My GAWD...Daryl...let me love you. He's so tough and so psychologically vulnerable at the same time.

Glenn and Dale talk about women. Poorly. Everyone's having women issues. Meanwhile Rick can't keep his people in line and they mistake Daryl for a walker. Andrea gets the bright idea to shoot him. Good lawd this is an awful day for Daryl. Can Andrea not deal with her bitchery without shooting someone? Geez. Daryl refuses to die as she just grazes him, but he's had one hell of an awful day. But Daryl found evidence of Sophia in spite of everything. He's the badass hero of this rodeo today. Cranky and wearing zombie ears, but the hero. And Carol is the only one who recognizes. He's terribly sweet when he shyly tries to cover himself when Carol comes in. Daryl's just so unused to people being NICE to him. And when Carol tells him he's every bit as good a man as Rick or Shane...UGH. I don't know if I really ship anyone on this show, but Carol is bringing out the human in Daryl. She gives him a little kiss on the forehead that he obviously doesn't know how to respond to like he's a little boy. And then he cuddles back under the blankets and awkwardly basks in Carol's appreciation. I think it's going to come to the point that he'll do anything to protect Carol and Sophia.

And Glenn finds a barn full of walkers. Glenn's head is just going to explode from secret keeping from crazy women and lack of sex.

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