JoshWoodzy wrote:

Beth is 16 or something, and an idiot. Most teenagers are. It's either she was acting rashly and being short sighted, or she was tired of running, was willing to die, knowing that her friends would kill Dawn. I'm gonna go with the latter.

This.

I dunno about you guys but that finale hit me right in the feels. After all of the buildup between the two, I was honestly expecting at least one of the two deceased to actually make it out alive.

I do agree with some of the others that the ending seemed a little contrived, if only because the buildup seemed to establish Dawn turning a new leaf (or at least something resembling it), so her demanding Noah seemed a bit contradictory after the previous 45 minutes.

I genuinely do like the direction the series is going in. This season has had a really somber atmosphere and I genuinely enjoy the character development that's been established (particularly in the Daryl & Carol episode).

DarknessDeku wrote:

I like the beginning of the Walking Dead series, but I hate how the later part of the series took away from the survival aspect of it, and now the entire thing is a soap opera.

They actually include more bits about the mundane details of surviving an apocalypse now than they did before. I'm also not sure what you mean by the "later part of the series", as the series has been character drama-driven since Season 2 (and has only gotten increasingly better at being so since then).

lordsathien wrote:

GeorgeTaylor wrote: Im more pissed that Daryl is going to probably be hooking up with Jamie Lee Curtis now. I'm actually fine with that pairing. It seems genuine.

I have been wanting this since season 3.

And honestly, Carol is probably my favorite character at this point. All of the characters from season 3 onward have had decent development in their own rights, but I feel like Carol has had the most thematically interesting evolution. And honestly, as silly as it was, I found the sight of a middle-aged woman with greying hair firing a rocket into a gas canister to be immensely entertaining.

I will say, though, that as much as the I found the Beth plotline fascinating once she got to the hospital, I spent that entire episode focused on her thinking that Emily Kinney isn't that amazing of an actress. I don't know, maybe it's the way the character is supposed to be, but I kind of just wish she was more (realistically) emotive. Like how her reaction to the whole situation seemed to be "oh...that sucks", or how Kinney's interpretation of a 16 year old girl drinking moonshine (when the character had never consumed alcohol previously) to be a mild sip followed by indifference. But, I guess we won't have to worry about that anymore.

Yeah I was super confused when I heard about her age. I actually thought she was like two years younger than me, but to hear she's five years older is crazy.