Daryl’s Origins Story 😱🎉🎉🎉
Okay! How fun was the Daryl origin story? It’s set our fandom on fire in a way it hasn’t for quite awhile. I’m ALWAYS a fan of that. 😉
There are three major parts that I’ll be discussing today. The part about Beth and S4/S5 (obviously), the very ending of Daryl’s story, and the sneak peek for S11. I’ll go over a couple of other details in other parts as well, but most of the rest of the episode was just going through what Daryl was doing in each season.
Before we go into what they said, though, there’s something very important about how they presented this that everyone needs to understand. As @wdway pointed out, obviously Norman was reading from a script. It’s not just him meandering along and talking about what’s happened in the show.
There are probably a lot of reasons for that. Because they have so much to cover (10 full seasons’ worth, after all) they needed him to stay on track and keep to the important elements of the story.
Perhaps even more important, this is the writers telling us exactly what they want us to remember. What’s important to Daryl’s story moving forward. The unimportant things will, naturally, fall by the wayside.
What I noticed very early on was Norman’s body language. Especially in the way he was moving his arms and shoulders. It was clear to me that he was in character. It’s Daryl that moves like that, not Norman.
So, despite speaking about Daryl in the third person (“Daryl did this, Daryl said that…”) he is actually telling this from Daryl’s point of view. One good example of this was when he talked about pushing Beta down the elevator shaft. He said “Daryl kicks his dumb, tall ass down an elevator shaft.” That’s the way Daryl would phrase it if he were telling his story to someone. (Say Rick or Beth, perhaps? 😁)
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