#caryllels

[haircoveredwriter]

"She showed up in Solaz, out of the blue...like a dream"

[freefromthecocoon]

Parallels 10x07 and 11x20

I have rewatched 11x20 tonight.  The parallels between 11x20 and 10x07 hit me like a ton of bricks. 

The scene in the jail when Daryl and Carol are torturing Lance....it's almost a reverse mirror of when Carol was torturing that whisperer in 10x07

Jail cell....check

Prisoner with scar....check

Carol pushes her finger into Whisperer wound....check 

Daryl digs his fingers into Lance's scar....check

Daryl calms Carol and helps her to release and Carol calms Daryl and helps him to release.

After calming the other, each of them threatens bodily harm to the prisoner with a knife. 

[sinnersandsapphics-edits]

10x07 / 10x21

[my-mt-heart]

We can totally dislike something while understanding it. The whole Leah thing feels unnecessary, but I can see the story they’re trying to tell. I think it’s so significant that the writer of the ep said it was never planned that Daryl and L would kiss or say I love you’s. There’s a reason they’re saving showing these things with him y’all. It’s like the writers said, this whole thing with them was bc of specific circumstances at specific times. Meaning not likely to happen again!

Absolutely. It’s a bit jarring to watch, but it’s not without purpose. The biggest thing Leah does is frame Carol and Daryl as romantic. Each parallel, colored by Daryl’s desires and fears, presents the possibility of his relationship with Carol heading down the same path as with Leah. The direct spear fishing one allows Daryl to hope for happiness with Carol. “The dead catches up to you” one warns him that Carol is not in a place to accept that happiness. He see she’s as lost as he was when he was searching for Rick, so he offers her the same advice that Leah offered him which had brought them closer together, “only if you let it,” but because he knows that had still not been enough for him, he adds to Carol “I’m not going to let it,” proving his commitment to her. Daryl admitting he should have stayed to help Leah does speak to his constant need to take the blame for everything, but it is also about him empathizing with Leah, putting himself in her place. The “choose where you belong”/”I know where I’m supposed to be” parallel is Daryl understanding Leah’s frustration with his indecisiveness because he feels the same frustration with Carol. When he tells Carol “that’s on you because you don’t know when to stop,” he is reprimanding the part of her that won’t let her be happy because it had once been a part of him too. Daryl has already chosen Carol. He wants Carol to reciprocate, but if she can’t, then he has to let her go like Leah let him go.  

Yes, the writer did say even without production restrictions, they wanted Daryl’s and Leah’s intimacy to be subtle, supposedly to be sensitive to passionate fans, but it’s definitely more than that. It’s the same reason Carol never tells Ezekiel she loves him even when it seems natural to do so. They aren’t going to come out and say it, but they are saving the good stuff for Daryl and Carol. 

Timing is indeed everything. There’s a reason Daryl’s story with Leah is sandwiched between his flashbacks with Carol. The distance between Daryl and Carol, symbolized by the river between them, is what allows him to grow closer to Leah. Carol saying she’s moving on and he should do the same is what spurs Daryl to finally try to commit to Leah. 

A lot of people are speculating Daryl and Leah are going to get back together in S11, but without the grief and loneliness that brought them together in the first place, it doesn’t make sense. The pain Daryl experiences at the cabin is not longing for Leah. He knows she is in the past. Yes, he did ask her to find him but he did so when he was feeling lost, and now thanks to Carol, the one who actually succeeded in finding him, he is not. He knows what Carol has done for him. He’s going to see her working her ass off to prove she belongs. 

[lamportb]

Not that this is the same thing at all, but I just want to point out that Daryl used Henry to get intel from Lydia and didn’t let Henry know that’s what he was doing until he shared information about the Kingdom and got hauled out. You know who else didn’t know her son was being used this way and would probably have objected had she been there? Carol.  

It’s interesting how the writers are flipping this situation around on Daryl who is now trying to protect his adopted daughter from being used in a similar way. I mean, at least Carol made her intentions clear?

We also get a parallel scene about Lydia and Carol acknowledging their past abuse. It reminded me of this scene with Henry:

[haircoveredwriter]

In season 1, Laurent asks Daryl if he has a wife and family back home. In season 2, Carol tells Ash she’s looking for her husband and child in France.

Interesting… very interesting 😉

[haircoveredwriter]

Positivity thought for the day.

(Warning, contains spoilers from the extended opening mins shown at sdcc, so if you don’t want to know scroll on)

Upon arriving at the church injured, Daryl gets a wound cauterized by hot metal- obviously causing extreme pain/psychological trauma (given his history) and probably causing the thought he’s dying flash through his head. (The positive is coming, I promise). What does Daryl do in this instance? Thinks about/has a flashback of - if he passed out - of Carol and Judith from s11.

Back in the s7 Negan lineup they showed, though left out of the episode, everyone having last thoughts when they assumed they were about to die + under psychological duress … where again Daryl thought about Carol.

Now I’m not an insider or anything but I feel as though that screams international storytelling and connective moments. The most important people to you, the ones you love the most, are the ones you’d be thinking of in your “last moments”.

[haircoveredwriter]

The Walking Dead || S11E09 "No Other Way" & S10E14 "Look at the Flowers" || Caryl coming home to each other ||