Hi, it's me, Shen. After lurking around TWD fandom for a while I created this account to become more active in the community. I don't get why some people think the unique connection between Carol/Daryl is like mother n son. Where's that coming from?
hey there, welcome to the fandom! :)
weeeell, this is a big, heated topic we are about to enter and i really like to stay away from that drama. i try my best though.
i personally don't get it either and it makes me so incredibly mad. carol and daryl are both adults, close to the same age. whoever thinks otherwise might have lived under a rock for their whole lifes without ever seeing other people. you don't have to ship them, you don't have to see sexual chemistry - nobody forces anyone to ship these two. but the fact that they bluntly think she could be his mother is so insulting - don't get me even started on that. if carol had long brown hair instead of her cute, short grey cut nobody would even mention the word mother. the fact that it's mostly girls and women calling her that makes it even worse. if the roles were switched nobody would call daryl her father as well. of course not. it's just terribly insulting and i don't even know if i am more mad or sad about that.
also melissa portrays carol in such a raw, beautiful way, she is a freakin goddess.
if you ever want to talk more about that or anything else just come back to me, my inbox is always open and i love to chat about stuff like that :)