Someone was going on at me yesterday about how it's been 4 years & there is no way Daryl is still mourning her. My response was that at least 2 actors on the show have said they have been in Alexandria for only 3-4 mos & Atlanta to Alexandria was less than a month so it's def under a year & prob >6 mos total. They stopped & thought about it and said "You mean Beth may still be recovering?" How'd they jump from Daryl should bang Rosita to he needs to go back and get Beth on timeline alone? Weird!
Yes, that is weird, and grief takes a long time. Daryl lost the love of his life, and he didn’t even get to give her a funeral. Of course he’s still mourning, especially since he’s mired in trauma related to Beth (like Denise’s death). That stuff takes times, and Daryl isn’t the best with dealing with his emotions, so it’ll take longer for him to work through all of that stuff anyway.
It’s been several months since Coda. TPTB confirmed that some time passed between 5x01 and its after credit scene:
It confirms the theory that Morgan’s codas were flash forwards in time, evident by the greenery that surrounded the No Sanctuary sign in his first coda and then the music magazines being worn and faded in his second. Morgan didn’t arrive at Alexandria until the end of 5x16, meaning that 5b was over an extended period of time. There were full moons in 5x11, 5x12, and 5x13, and three weeks passed between 5x08 and 5x10. That’s about three months of time right there, fitting with AMC’s statement about Morgan in 5x01.
Season 6 was probably about twoish. 6a took place over a period of about two weeks and then there was a month-long time jump between 6x09 and 6x10 (as confirmed by Abraham in 6x11). A few days then passed between 6x12 and 6x15, I believe. Season 7 took place over 19 days, as Gimple confirmed. (This is also evident that Maggie was about two months pregnant in 6b and by 7x05 her baby was significantly larger, while her stomach was still pretty flat.) And going by this article here, Hardwick confirmed that only about a week passed in season 8 on 8x15′s Talking Dead (X).
While writing out this timeline, I noticed that the passage of time in each season is getting smaller. It’s like a countdown – back to 0. @bethgreenewarriorprincess theorized long ago that Beth might return around the 7-8 month mark since Coda, to parallel the time jump between seasons 2 and 3, when Andrea was missing from the group. And Beth has long been established as the symbolical “time keeper” of the group with her 30 days sign and her journal. Well, there was also a time jump of 7-8 months between seasons 3 and 4. And in 401 Beth “reset” time with her boyfriend’s death. It will be reversed when time is reset with a life. And of course, 6x02 had a timer. This was episode that had the anti-parallel to Coda, with Jessie killing the female Wolf with a pair of scissors.
The group has been “on borrowed time” so to speak, and once they ran out, Beth has to come back. Season 9 might be our season, as time is almost up.
You can find more information about time and related sources here (X).
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