5 things I want from the Walking Dead bonus episodes

2. Find Me/Diverged – Carol and Daryl time

I’m combining these episodes as they both appear to be focused on Carol and Daryl’s dynamic, post Whisperer war.

Look, I’m a Caryl shipper, I make no bones about it, so were I to make an honest wish-list for this episode I’d say I see “cabin” in the description and I’m wishing for a “oh no we have to stay in this cabin and there’s only one bed what shall we do?” trope, followed by snuggling and more.

However, I’m also a realist. So what I really want from these episodes is for Carol and Daryl to talk. Really, properly talk.

I want them to stop all the “you good?” “gotta be” surface stuff of trying to soldier on with their pain due to their individual traumas, and the pain they are currently dealing with due to their fragile relationship.

I want Daryl to be open about how much Carol repeatedly leaving and risking her life affects him, and I want Carol to be open about the reason she keeps running away is because she believes his death is the one death she’ll never be able to come back from (based on her Alpha hallucinations in “Look at the Flowers”).

I just want them to stop holding themselves emotionally like two strangers in an elevator and instead bare their souls to each other about everything they have suffered, their hopes and fears and why they are always drawn back to each other.

And then I want them to share a cigarette.