No, I don't think they will go that route, that would be a complete deviation from what her current path is. I think we are leading towards a reconciliation between Carol and Morgan, making a stronger force to balance Rick.

 

It's a much needed arc to Carol.

You can't have a 100% on Rambo character forever without some sort of fallback, especially know with living behind safe walls again.

Carol knows she needs to kill, not killing people leads to a much worse fate.
But now her conscious is catching up with her, seeing the Wolf guy save Denise, and seeing her future self in Paula was a wake up call.

She's never liked killing, but she never let herself feel it.

At the end I am sure we will see a more confident, strong, and compassionate Carol, who is willing to open up to strangers again.

 

I think we are leading towards a reconciliation between Carol and Morgan, making a stronger force to balance Rick.

I will be very surprised if this happens. Morgan is living in some sort of fantasyland in his head. His approach to this world is completely unrealistic and undoable. Carol is the polar opposite. She sees what has to be done and she does it. Sometimes she even goes too far as she did at the prison. I do not see how these two personalities could ever come to a meeting of minds.

 

Carol makes me think of General Savage (played by Gregory Peck) in Twelve O'Clock High. He's tough as nails throughout the whole movie, until he cracks.

I agree that this change is a little out of character compared to previous seasons, but it's not unreasonable. Even Rick went to crazytown for a while.

 

post traumatic stress disorder that most soldiers get when in the front lines or in combat too long

 

Carol's track record with children hasn't been great. She's had some horrible experiences and has had to face some harsh realities about this world; children in her experience have brought her pain and loss. I would think at this point she wouldn't want anything to do with children ever again. But who knows, they have done strange things with the characters before.

 

No reason for her to snatch Maggie's baby. She has Judith whom she cares for quite often. Judith is also the one child she has a good track record with.

 

Maybe Carol seeing Rick ask and shoot Primo in the head without any hesitation made her think that Rick is becoming a bad dude or something....but the writers better not destroy her character like they did with Morgan. I'd rather see Carol die before seeing her become someone like Morgan.

 

Please stop saying Carol NEEDS this. NO SHE DOESN'T!

They built her up to the peak of bad-ass-ness when she went full stealth Ninja mode and now they want to start giving her moral dilemmas? LAME! They need to ride the bad-ass wave with her for another half season at least. Bringing her to her peak and giving her bullshyt moral dilemmas over it can only mean one thing

Carol's a gonner this season!

 

my thought was similiar....i had tweeted the following...'carol...the walking dread.' i just said that i think carol is going to have a nervous breakdown. And/or get herself killed in an upcoming episode. This last episode seemed ominous to me with her....bad things to come. I hope not, though.

 

Guys, about that rosary. Are we sure that Carol was carrying it? Could it have fallen off the body of that walker that got carried out in front of her feet?

 

Why are people obsessed with "bad ass"

Characters with no remorse, no emotions are BORING.

 

That's exactly how I feel about it. Carol was such a great character/role model because everything she had to go through made her stronger. So many people these days want to play the victim card. Adversity builds character with the right attitude and can make you a stronger/better person. Even though we're talking about a fictional character I always thought Carol was a great example of this.