Absolutely not. I think it's completely reckless and stupid what he is doing.

 

I'm a bit surprised to see Daryl acting like this considering his guilt after Glenn's death. But man he is damn near going rouge and has to be stopped if its not too late for a family member to pay the price.

And I agree with @Jen7. I spoke to the screen at Michonne to talk him out of it. She really should have changed her mind when Rosita did and they both could have tried talking him out of it. Maybe use Sasha's death as an example? But with him it probably would not have done any good. But she should have tried harder.

 

The only person who might have made him stop is Gimple and I am not sure that even that would have worked.

 

Daryl and Tara are out for one thing...revenge. They don't care or don't think about the consequences of diverging from the oringinal thought out plan that would most likely have worked. They only see red. Like you said there was not much physically they could have done. Both Michonne and Rosita tried to talk Daryl down but I think both saw that he wasn't going to listen and was going to do this plan no matter who else was there besides him. He actually took advantage of Tara's grief to help him execute this dumbass plan. Michonne should have clocked him with a rock like she did Rick when he was being this dumb.

 

Michonne actually wanted to stay and help. She said she just couldn't. Maybe she felt she was betraying Rick?

 

I think the idea is that they weren't sure if he was right or not. Since they really weren't sure, they didn't want to stop him. In principle, his idea wasn't bad. They were basically waiting for either the Saviors to "surrender", or for the walkers to breach the Sanctuary. So Daryl was just speeding up the second possibility.

I actually would argue that allowing the Saviors to 'surrender' would be an even more dangerous plan. Then what? Sorry about the misunderstanding? See ya later? The question of what they could do after a mass Savior surrender is a big one. Sure, Rick would have killed Negan, but they'd still be left with a couple hundred or more people who had a grudge against our group. Many of them have lost family and close friends in this war.

The show might go in a different direction, but in reality, would we really want a pretty powerful group numbering in the hundreds, who want us dead, to just go about their business? Even Rick seemed to be resigned to the idea that they were going to kill them rather than have them surrender. He seemed to acknowledge as much when he bargained with Jadis about what percentage of their stuff they would take after they were gone.

So was Daryl's plan really that bad, in principle? No, I don't think so. The reason it was irresponsible was that he did it in rogue fashion, without the cooperation of the group. But if it had been a coordinated effort, I think it could have been an extra nail in the sanctuary coffin. I can understand Michonne et al.'s mixed feeling about it, and can understand why they felt they might want to bail, yet not actively stop it.

 

Well, no, if they knew it was a bad plan they wouldn't have gone along with it for awhile. They had mixed emotions about it. I'm not sure that after a war where my group killed many loved ones of another group, that I'd be comfortable saying "eh, as long as they see how reasonable I am, they won't be a threat"

 

Not according to Michonne, who concluded "I really hope this works. I really do. I just can't do it".

The workers, sure. This part of the argument is tricky, because we don't know the blueprints of the Sanctuary, like Daryl and Rick does. If I looked at the blueprints and concluded that the workers really did have a good chance of sealing themselves off, I'd be okay with that risk.

 

@Jen7 may not judge but I will be at the ready to judge 6 ways to Sunday

 

I agreed with Daryl's plan. The only thing was that he didn't have the full group support. Had they all been behind Daryl now war would be over and all the saviours would be dead.

I liked Rick's plan too but it had so many chances to fail and it was really just out of luck (and it being a tv show) that it didn't fail. Leaving the saviours trapped inside for days gave them so much time to find a way out. And I'm guessing the snipers didn't have all sides of the building covered or they could've stopped Eugenes original plan so that made no sense either.

 

Daryl doomed many people in ASZ by acting like a hot headed moron. Any blood that's shed is on HIS hands and HIS alone. If I were rick id' blow his brains out just to keep everyone else alive before he ends up killing them too.

 

And maybe I'm being heartless but I just don't care if the workers had to die in order to complete the ultimate goal of taking out the Saviours. The war would be over if they all were on board with the plan of blowing a hole in the building and letting the walkers take them out

 

Well, I wouldn't go as far as saying I didn't care about the workers. I'd care. When we stop caring about innocent people is maybe when we become the bad guy. But what I will say is that I'd put the safety of my own people before the safety of the Sanctuary workers. If I was given a choice between putting my own people at risk, and putting the workers at risk, I'd choose putting the workers at risk. But like I said, if I looked at the blueprints of the Sanctuary, and saw that the workers had a good chance of sealing themselves off on a second floor, I'd be okay with flooding the compound with walkers, if it meant security for my own people.

 

Clearly there are going to be some major deaths in the mid-season finale. It already is getting compared to the season 4 mid-season finale. Rick seeing 2 graves in the premier and Daryl losing control have setup something bad acometh.

Considering the caste is going to have to be cut and the boom is over. Future seasons are going to have a smaller, tighter caste. Probably for the best. Not sure Daryl is going to be part of that.

 

As viewers, we benefit from having a full hindsight view of whether this was a good choice or not because we see the consequences that other characters don't, but I ultimately disagree with Daryl and Tara. I really hope that Rick does not let this slide and this continues to widen the divide between Rick and Daryl.