@ARE_you_kidding_me Hmmm, I identify with Carol, simply because I think I would act the same way in her shoes. Especially with where they are right now. I think I’d put on the facade of “hey there, I’m just a motherly type, no need to worry about me” and watch everyone very closely from the shadows yet know that if it came down to it, I’d do whatever I had to do to protect my loved ones.
And while I agree with your saying they’ve all changed so much, I guess I relate to that as well, because in a situation where you’re constantly fighting to survive, building a family with others after watching your own be brutally murdered, and adapting to this new reality in which dead people can walk and want to eat you, and living people have the potential to be just as bloodthirsty….we would all change and most likely be a lot different than our former selves.
I mean, take Rick, for example. He used to be a kinder, gentler Rick who was willing to give second chances, and had patience with people. After being stabbed in the back by his best friend, screwed over by humans one too many times, seeing too many people in denial about the walkers (like Hershel) even if he’d had to save them from walkers, losing his wife, etc…he slowly evolved into a man who takes zero shit from people anymore and has zero patience for those in denial. He’s not the same man he used to be, emotionally, but I totally get why, and figure many of us would do the exact same thing.
With everything they’ve had to endure, everything they’ve had to overcome, it’s like having to adapt to an alternate reality, so of course they’re just shadows of their former selves.