The Same Boat

I really like the characterization of carol, played by melissa mcbride. The character is so compelling. That girl, who looks soft from the outside and is cold hearted in the side. This episode tries to show the goodness left in her. Carol herself realizes that she is turned into a beast right now, like rick. The episode also shows her manipulative skills. This trait in her is also shown in episodes before, but the one in this episode was amazing. Even though Maggie appears to be intelligent, physically strong than carol externally, this episode clearly shows how carol is much better in surviving and is much more skillful than Maggie.

Looking forward to how carols character arc progresses.

This episode managed to change the perspective of it all, forcing us to look at our characters in a new way! Diving into the moraly complex acts that they have commited and ultimately what makes them any different from the people they are trying to kill!

I loved the conversations Maggie and Carol had with the Saviors as it allowed for a new perspective on them! Paula in particular, stole the show in this one!

You could tell that something changed in Carol! She has always been the one to kill anyone who posed a threat, and now she was faced with that fact!

The episode was also very graphic and violent, with some brutal mercyless kills!

I don't think this should have been a full episode. It really ground to a halt the action pace that had been happening in previous episodes. It would have worked better as a 20 minute segment of another episode cutting back and forth. And overall the characters and how they reacted were a bit too predictable to me ... like we've seen all of this before.

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And I'm too old to watch the same eye-rolling scene again and again. Kidnappers leave the kidnapped alone in the room ... and the door unlocked behind them. (Groan)

Carol from manipulating and asking rick to kill the guy for domestic fight or killing people cause they were sick. Turns to getting almost the whole group killed due to stopping Maggie and then she catches the Morgan virus and trys to save people who will kill them without a thought.

Who tried to kill Daryl, Abrahim & Shasha before. Now she almost gets all of them killed due to Morgan Flu. But Kills with a conscience now like a priest who is preaching. While she caused the death of many before.

And now she finds conscience in the middle of a fight.

If you lost your cohonas don't come simple. First you manipulate people make them what they are then you find Conscience ???

Mia Khalifa to Mother Teresa. Cant digest.

Having said that the episode was good. Would be much better if they found a better angle than the moral police crap.

Yes, leaving Carol and Maggie alone is straight out of a Batman TV series episode, allowing them time to do something - but the episode did result in atypical difficulties. What was special was Carol's actions (including her acting) - from the very beginning. Did you notice her marking the ground with her boot, knowing it would help Rick and the group track their location? Carol is the wisest of the group and her character arc is amazing - one of the best in any movie or TV show. Since I have to include one more line of text, here it is.................. Since I have to include one more line of text, here it is..................