Team Family

Mainly here to share the Stuff, Thangs I love about TWD - with some silly rants and randomness thrown in for good measure. Keeping it Friendly.

[still-miss-hershel]

What we were promised: “Monster of the week”

What we actually get: “Romance of the week”

Lolz

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Behind The Scenes of TWD: Daryl Dixon - The Book of Carol Le Paradis Pour Toi [📸: François-Éric Gendron]

[still-miss-hershel]

Just an aside… Melissa McBride in Daryl Dixon: The Book of Carol made me cry with pride and amazement. Thanks to Melissa, Carol is such a well-rounded, intelligent and relatable character. Even in her darkest moments, you feel her pain and you understand her motivation. McBride’s own inner light shines through at all times. It is the ‘Alchemy’ Andrew Lincoln once described. Her talent is rare and beautiful. All we need now is for S3 Daryl to shine as brightly as we know he can.

Can you imagine?!

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Melissa McBride and Norman Reedus with Louis Puech Scigliuzzi @ SDCC 2024 for TWD: Daryl Dixon - The Book of Carol

[womeninfictionandirl]

Carol by Lee Lightfoot

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NORMAN REEDUS & MELISSA MCBRIDE 2024 Tribeca Film Festival Portraits

[ninelives2]

Daryl Dixon doesn't do relationships and he certainly doesn't date.  But what if there was someone out there that would turn his world upside-down and end up changing his mind?

[still-miss-hershel]

At last, the final chapter!

[ninelives2]

Daryl Dixon doesn't do relationships and he certainly doesn't date.  But what if there was someone out there that would turn his world upside-down and end up changing his mind?

[still-miss-hershel]

2nd of two chapters in one week. Almost the end! One more chapter left.

[reedusmcbridedaily]

NORMAN REEDUS & MELISSA MCBRIDE Behind The Scenes of TWD S11

HAPPY BDAY MEL ⚡: “She’s been kick-ass since day one…When I have scenes with her it’s like lightning hit ground and it’s always good.”

[ninelives2]

Daryl Dixon doesn't do relationships and he certainly doesn't date.  But what if there was someone out there that would turn his world upside-down and end up changing his mind?

[still-miss-hershel]

This one might finally be finished soon! 🫠

[karlurbanism]

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Something that would make me feel a lot more secure about Caryl's future is a showrunner who understands their relationship as deeply as we do and can easily convey that in the show as well as in the media. All this money was presumably spent on making the show look good, but if there's one thing Caryl fans aren't, it's superficial. The story has to grip us, which means the showrunner has to deliver the romantic beats we want in ways that will allow Carol and Daryl to grow together. She (because a female showrunner can write for strong female characters like Carol and speak to the growing number of female viewers with money to spend) has to balance a strong character narrative with an external plot that feels grounded despite all the zombies. That's what made the first few seasons of TWD work so well. That's where the money should go. The writing. AMC should also take note of how excited Caryl fans were to see Melissa get that EP title. We trust her voice. A lot. We trust her instincts. A lot. We would trust her choice in a showrunner, so maybe she should have a big say, and maybe she should even get the chance to co-showrun. That’s a Caryl spinoff I’d come running for.

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Gotta admit it feels like a huge relief to see Carol back on my screen again! Knowing she is out there laser focused on finding Daryl and being Carol-esque about everything, is like balm for the soul after so much uncertainty.

Don’t get me wrong, this is still TWD with some of the same idiotic choices. There will always be a fear that they don’t do her character justice, because that’s the way these middle-aged white-men-in-charge, roll. As long as they make it clear that Carol hasn’t wasted her time trying to rescue a man that no longer needs to be rescued!?! Due to some of the inexplicable writing choices, the mere possibility of the impact of their reunion being diluted in any way, distresses me. Like what’s with the flat-pack family he’s been saddled with? I know they needed him to form some sort of attachments in the time he was there… but 👀 ??? I’m not sure I could make it over to France from Scotland in the time it’s taken him to adopt that kid and his aunt. Who they should remember is A NUN! 😞

Anyway, CAROL is back and right now that’s what matters, well, that and reuniting her with her soulmate. Their chemistry should be allowed to do it’s thing now, it’s what wins people over and has been doing so for over a decade (instead of whatever hatchet job they did in S11…Seriously!)

Hopes are higher this time around though. The Book of Carol and what a tale it will be. I also rather like that tagline from the teaser…😉

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Daryl promises Carol to be back home in a week TWD DARYL DIXON 1.05 Deux Amours

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Norman Reedus & Melissa McBride on set of TWD: Daryl Dixon in France, June 26, 2023 [📸:xj0nathan on IG]

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Romantic Caryl

Not just a dealbreaker, THE dealbreaker. If you’re asking me what I want, I want Carol’s hero arc, I want Norman and Melissa to have equal billing, I want Carol’s name in the title (or a title that encompasses their shared journey), and I want UNAMBIGUOUS romantic canon. If it’s ambiguous, if there is any room for interpretation, if I or anyone offscreen has to convince me that we got canon, that doesn’t work.

You’ll recall that the ‘I love you’ scene got mixed reactions. If I’ve learned something from marketing anon, that means AMC missed the mark and feeding us the same slop and calling it a meal as someone else put it will not maximize the impact AMC needs to launch the show into more seasons.

Romantic canon is the thing. It’s the desire, it’s the light at the end of the tunnel, it’s what Caryl fans aka the target audience are waiting for and should’ve gotten at the end of S11. I don’t need a S3 to tell me Daryl and Carol are best friends. I already know that. It will always be true. They were written to be MORE than that. Honor that. Let the characters grow.  

I’m not subscribing for S2 and I will not watch past S2 if unambiguous canon is not delivered in S2. The reunion is the perfect opportunity. Use it. Not lowering my standards on that one no matter how many gimmicks are used to try to placate us. Carol’s on Daryl’s bike. Great. IF it leads to canon. Also, if you’re going to go to great lengths to bait Carylers (i.e. that bathtub shit), go to great lengths to pay it off (i.e. Caryl bath time).

Audience and story integrity over personal interests and baggage (🤨🤨🤨) EVERY time.