The whole Daryl leaving to get revenge thing seemed a bit out of character too. If it was Carol that Dwight killed I could see it easily, but not over Denise

 

Well, what else are they supposed to do? They have to get the scene set up, so OF COURSE this was gonna happen.

 

Is the art of tracking really that fool proof? Especially with hundreds of walkers wandering through the area?

 

As I understand, Walker tracks are easy to pick out because they stagger they don't walk in a straight line.

 

Yes. If your name is Aragorn, and this is a Lord of the Walking Dead Rings spinoff.

in real life, if you have to track a deer, it's a long, shifty day with no guarantee of a happy end.


Also, to quote Michonne, "anger makes you stupid. And stupid gets you killed."
@Rapscallion, I know Daryl is your boy, but pobody's nerfect.

 

sure, if they are leaving tracks in the mud. But you don't need to be a tracker to follow those kind of obvious tracks. Most paths taken through the woods wouldn't be that obvious.

 

Possibly, but we don't really know which direction the Savior group came from. They might not have intersected paths before Daryl and Glenn split up. Then he came back and found them probably because he did pick up on their trail.

 

You're getting mad at the wrong thing.

Lazy writing because of Daryl walking into that trap? I don't think so.
Lazy writing because of Daryl going on a hunting spree because of DENISE? I think so.

 

Then what would the 90-minute Finale consist of? A super, drawn out speech by Negan? I don't think so. Not even issue 100 did that.

 

So what is lazy writing? The writer has somebody else do the typing for them because it's too much effort for them to do it? They only use A,E,I, and O but are too lazy to use U? They produce a script without punctuation, because they can't be bothered?

 

Glen was trying to warn Daryl but Daryl didn't seem to pick up on it. Didn't even shift his position slightly to maybe check on what was causing Glenn to all but scream nooooo....Seemed odd to me.

 

He didn't go out just because of Denise, but because of the cumulative effect of all the crap with Dwight, of which Denise was the last straw. She had been making friends with him though, remember the homemade granola bar she gave him?

 

I think it was a cookie, if I recall correctly. A sh*tty-looking cookie, I might add.

 

Yes, exactly. That's what I was coming here to say.

Daryl had trusted Dwight. He asked him the three questions necessary to join the group, and he helped him and his girlfriend escape the other Saviors. And Dwight threw it back in his face, stole his bike and crossbow, and made a fool of him. And then it came back to bite Daryl in the ass big time. Dwight could have killed any one of them with the arrow.

And also, yes, he was making friends with Denise. He had that talk with her about her brother ("Sounds like we had the same brother"), and took crap from her about driving a stick shift.

I don't think it's out of character at all for him to blame himself for what happened. He blamed himself for Beth, too. When he can't protect the people around him, he feels powerless.

 

Tracking is more difficult than daryl makes it seem. Could be easy in some situations, near impossible in others. What really gets me is how everyone is able to sneak like a ninja through the woods. The ground would be covered in leaves and felled branches. In the woods with no noise around you hear everything.

 

I'm getting a bit tired of experienced survivors in the group just heading off into the big bad world outside the walls with no plan, no strategy, and basically just driving straight into ambushes or stumbling around until some bad guys find them. Morgan doesn't even bother with a gun. What if he comes up against some bad guy with a gun (which is basically all of them) - will he throw his stick at them or tell them all about how people can change? Glenn and Michonne are standing in the middle of known bad guy territory having a loud philosophical chat, not bothering to keep watch or find cover to stop in - and oh goodness, they got compromised. Darryl and Rosita were just as bad. And everyone just takes off in dribs and drabs from Alexandria with no coordination because feelings. These people can't expect to survive. It's a miracle they got this far.

 

So because Dwight hurt his feelings and he feels all guilty he just took off in the hopes of finding Dwight in the middle of Saviour Land and trusted that his 3 or 4 arrows would keep him safe?