Ok, so my thoughts on the WD.... (Not that they matter)
Morgan is still trying to be a "decent guy", he has not fully broken yet. Yes, he went nuts early but that did not break him. He recovered before hitting rock bottom. So he he still hanging on to his humanity.....think about it: when he let those Wolves go how many of of us were thinking "WTF dude, you need to take those guys out! They will only haunt you in the future."
Carol is awesome.
Don't get me wrong, I like Rick and he is good leader. But at this point if I had to choose, I would follow her. She cuts out emotion and just flat out does what it takes to survive. On a side note women are better then men in these types of situations 'the weaker sex'? physically perhaps, but psychologically? No, the "mother' instinct kicks in and they will do whatever it takes to win, to survive and protect their own. History proves this point. Originally, women were banned from combat not because they could not fight but rather they took no prisoners and dudes like sex.. Chicks fought in Viking times and with other cultures as well. Men stopped women from fighting for two reasons; Sex, "Hey, you are the mom of my kids and I like to bang you! You gotta stay home and stay safe!" The other is they did not play by the rules! While combat evolved and sense of "honor and Chivalry" came into being, chicks thought this was stupid and BS. Dudes could look across the battle field and see an equal, a fellow warrior/soldier. Women see them as an enemy and a future threat. So while a man might take a prisoner, a woman would simply kill him to avoid future problems. Which BTW, in most situations is the right call. For example, in the One Hundred years War there is an event that horrifies historians to this day: A hamlet in France that was controlled by the English was recaptured by the French while the English knights were out of town, the French rolled in and found that the soldiers were gone and only the English force's wives and children were around. So the French, being knights and all, told the English women "Your men have left you and now we are here! Feed us and give us booze! Because we are men and you are women! Serve us wenches!" So the women did. But they purposely "over served" them and got the French wasted. They then ushered them to a barn or town hall and said "Wait here, relax and take off you armor. Put your weapons aside. For you are correct! Our men left us and you are Knights! We will submit and you can have your way with us!' So as the French knights drunkenly and eagerly cast off their garments in anticipation of sex of these new conquests, the English women and moms shut them in, locked the doors and set the place ablaze...........burned all the French to death. A couple of days later the English forces returned, in haste, because they had heard the French had taken their base, only to find every thing calm and normal, except for burned down barn/townhall. "WTF did you do?!?' They asked their women. "French scum came in and we took care of it!" The English knights were horrified and aghast. "You can't do that!!! That is not Chivalrous!!! It is against the bloody rules!!!" The women replied "F the 'rules' it was only a matter of time before they raped us, killed our children and then killed us!" The men lived by "the code" or "honor", the women did what it took to survive. Absolutely true story BTW, but I may have taken liberties in what was said
So that is why I would follow Carol!
On another side note: If some for some reason things go really south in this world, I mean WD level, if you run into me you will be ok. I am a "Rick". But Mrs. KP? Better watch yourself, she would lock you into barn and set it on fire if she thought you were a threat. I'm not kidding, I've seen the instinct kick in a couple of times.
The Wolves? Raiding lowlife scumbags. They are this shows equivalents of vikings, pirates, Celts, Saxons, Vandals, Philistines or any 'raiding culture' of human history. We like to romanticize groups like vikings or pirates, we think them tough cool charming rogues. But in reality they all were murderous scumbags. If a viking band hit your village, things went badly for you. Most likely you were lucky to survive: they killed as many people as possible, stole all your stuff and burned you house down. So really, the Wolves were not all that different from other groups from history.
All in all, I have liked this season thus far!
