The Walking Dead - TV Series on AMC ( Comic and Un-aired Spoilers unwelcome!)

[Michael Crawford]

Yep, making it up as she goes along - which is exactly what she did. She knew that they'd be caught. You don't think she could see the car? Hear the car? Seriously? You think she has to be 'infallible' to not know a car that she just saw coming from an upstairs window, and could clearly hear (there's not a lot of street noise in this new world) to not get hit? Now, it's entirely possible she did just get hit - it's a tv show after all, and there's nothing to preclude the writers going that way. However, they spent the entire episode showing you how she is a person that makes the hard decisions to save others. If they did that and don't have a point, then others are right - the flashbacks and most of the dialog were pointless.

 

[myc]

I doubt she did this in purpose.. she could just let the gun drop and run out and cry out for help and act helpless and wounded.. they would have taken her in ... why risk serious injury .. ?

 

[Mister Ski]

Yep, making it up as she goes along - which is exactly what she did. She knew that they'd be caught. You don't think she could see the car? Hear the car? Seriously? You think she has to be 'infallible' to not know a car that she just saw coming from an upstairs window, and could clearly hear (there's not a lot of street noise in this new world) to not get hit? Now, it's entirely possible she did just get hit - it's a tv show after all, and there's nothing to preclude the writers going that way. However, they spent the entire episode showing you how she is a person that makes the hard decisions to save others. If they did that and don't have a point, then others are right - the flashbacks and most of the dialog were pointless.

This.

I don't think she got hit on purpose because she had no way of knowing 1.) if she would survive and 2.) that Noah would convince Daryl to not come out shooting to rescue her. No, if her goal was to "save" Daryl and Noah, then she would have just picked a window to shoot from and pick the cops off as they emerged from the car. There were only two of them and they had a crossbow, at least one gun and one semi automatic weapon. 3 against 2 are pretty good odds and they had the element of surprise and higher ground - two great elements for an ambush. Sorry, but I think they were trying to escape - plain and simple.

IMO, the flashbacks were NOT showing the viewers that she is a person that makes hard decisions. We already know that. The flashbacks were to show the viewers the aftermath and impact of those hard decisions on Carol and her psyche. Every decision she has made has consumed (episode title) another aspect of herself. So much so that she doesn't really know who she is as a person anymore.

 

[YankeesFanboy]

Wait, Carol threw herself in front of an oncoming car? Really?

Occam's razor, folks, Occam's razor.

 

[Michael Crawford]

We shall see - I just have a hard time believing that the writers want you to think she couldn't see or hear the car coming. That seems like a huge stretch.

Even the way the edited the scene screams set up - you don't see her run in front of the car, you see it hit her. They purposefully edited so you didn't actually see what happened, putting you in the same position as Daryl. We may never really know though - they could simply let it be one of those things that we're left to ponder about her, since there may never be a logical reason for her to announce it one way or the other.

 

[Michael Crawford]

Wait, Carol threw herself in front of an oncoming car? Really?

Occam's razor, folks, Occam's razor.

Uh, this is a tv show - not real life. Generally in fiction, the exact opposite of Occam's Razor applies, since the simplest, most obvious answer is also the most boring for the viewer/reader.

 

[Mister Ski]

We shall see - I just have a hard time believing that the writers want you to think she couldn't see or hear the car coming. That seems like a huge stretch.

Even the way the edited the scene screams set up - you don't see her run in front of the car, you see it hit her. They purposefully edited so you didn't actually see what happened, putting you in the same position as Daryl. We may never really know though - they could simply let it be one of those things that we're left to ponder about her, since there may never be a logical reason for her to announce it one way or the other.

I think we will know one way or another eventually. This show tends to do a really good job of tying up or addressing loose ends. I remember making the comment after the season premier about how Carol got all cleaned up before meeting up with Rick and the group and they showed that as one of her flashbacks in this episode. I think that flashback was not to necessarily show her cleaning up, but to show how she had to get the guts and blood off of her as soon as possible after all the killing (humans and Walkers) that she had done at Terminus.

 

[Michael Crawford]

Yep, I do think they'll address it, particularly since they went out of their way to leave some ambiguity by not showing her actually running out. They did it in a way that you are left with the same perspective as Daryl, which was an interesting angle.

 

[Fritz]

...Carol ran in front of the car on purpose...

Interesting theory, that never crossed my mind. I thought that Carol was just sneaking out first, the cops who happened to be in the area saw her and ran into her on purpose.

 

[YankeesFanboy]

Uh, this is a tv show - not real life. Generally in fiction, the exact opposite of Occam's Razor applies, since the simplest, most obvious answer is also the most boring for the viewer/reader.

I think getting hit on purpose would be one of the bigger leaps in a show full of them.

 

[Fritz]

Maybe Carol wakes up from a coma in the hospital and it was all her dream, not Rick's?

 

[Mr. Green]

yo, what crazies is this, carol got guns, man. those cops wasn't even sure if anyone's there in da first place. big city, plenty to hide in. like how come they just put carol in a stretcher and took her without even lookin round? carol got hit and they needed cheap labor, that is all.

 

[Darth Snoopy]

Wait, Carol threw herself in front of an oncoming car? Really?

Occam's razor, folks, Occam's razor.

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[pixletwin]

Sorry folks. But I am on Michael's side with this one. Carol has become a character of impulsive action. She knows Beth is in the Slabtown hospital. She knows Daryl is in trouble with the Slabtown folk. What does she do? She acts. Impulsively and quickly in the best way she knows how.

 

[YankeesFanboy]

Maybe Carol wakes up from a coma in the hospital and it was all her dream, not Rick's?

Yep, her jagoff husband sent her to the hospital with another concussion. Show's over, folks!

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[pixletwin]

Sorry folks. But I am on Michael's side with this one. Carol has become a character of impulsive action. She knows Beth is in the Slabtown hospital. She knows Daryl is in trouble with the Slabtown folk. What does she do? She acts. Impulsively and quickly in the best way she knows how.

 

[Darth Snoopy]

I think there's an echo in here.

 

[pixletwin]

Stop shouting?

 

[YankeesFanboy]

I think there's an echo in here.

pixle, Snoop was referring to your double post.

 

[pixletwin]

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pixle, Snoop was referring to your double post.

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