Yeah, I'm really enjoying this season so far. I was really expecting them to drag out the termites for much longer, I'm glad they ended it quickly. I had no sympathy for them - sure they were attacked, but that's a reason to beef up security, maybe even to devise some nasty tests for newcomers - but turning to cannibalism? They were too whiney and blamey and unwilling to take responsibility for their own behaviour, it was always someone else's fault.

I loved Michonne's reunion with her sword! It was almost as good as Daryl and Carol. And it think it is dumb and total waste to be using the biggest guy in the group as a babysitter. UGH

I'm in two minds about using tyreese as a babysitter - I mean yeah you do want a big powerful guy protecting the baby! On the other hand he's 'broken' - still hesitates to kill. Still feeling guilty for not saving Mika and agreeing it was necessary to kill Lizzie. Right now I'm not sure he'd make a good fighter in any circumstance other than, maybe, to protect the baby.

So did Carol purposely get caught? Or did they get surprised?

I must say I was pleased that the rapist was killed by his victim, nice poetic justice there.

And when did Beth to be such a crack-shot? And where did all those bullets come from when she never reloaded?

And what was Carol doing wandering around Atlanta anyway? They have repeatedly been told it was overrun and to stay away.

And...what exactly happened after Beth got in that car last season? They totally brushed over it so fast that AI couldn't understand anything they said.

Daryl was training her while they were on their own heading to Terminus. Though I agree that gun had way too many bullets, not to mention that no matter how a good a shot you are, the kills in the dark basement were pretty extraordinary. Though at the end, a lot of the zombies were being killed by the 'cops' that re-captured Beth - but it was hard to see that, I actually rewound that scene and watched again.

I'm guessing they were following the car that Daryl saw 2 episodes ago - the reason they left to rescue Beth in the first place. During the escape, we see several cars with the white cross in the back. That would have led Daryl and Carol to the hospital/atlanta. And both Carol and Daryl have already been to Atlanta - in the first season they went to the Atlanta Center for Disease control, so they would have both known what they were getting into.

As for Beth getting kidnapped - from what I could figure she was fighting off a walker while separated from Daryl, she blacked out during the fight and woke in hospital. They don't say it specifically, but I'm guessing the "rescue" was the cops knocking Beth out, killing the zombie then dragging her in the car with them. She was just their type, seemingly alone, young, pretty, strong enough to survive, but weak enough to enslave.

Yes, Daryl was training her but I don't remember her being all that great/useful. She always just seemed to be boring and in the background or being helpless a lot.

IDK how you remember all that stuff! Like Carol and Daryl having been in atlanta before? I don't even remember the cars with white crosses. :x

True that Beth was never that useful, and most of the training happened near the end of their time together, just before she was kidnapped.

We see the white cross car twice - once when Beth is originally kidnapped in Season 4 - Daryl runs to rescue her from zombies and he sees the back of a car, its black with a white cross on the window. Then in Season 5 when everyone's at the church and Carol is debating just leaving in the car she and Daryl found when Daryl shows up to either stop her or go with her. They're about to go back to the church when Daryl spots the black car with white cross, and he and Carol jump in the car and go.

Then, of course, during Beth's escape attempt you see several of these cars in a parking lot. Ties it all together and gives us the final clues about what they were actually up to when they 'rescued' people.

As for character development...that was just wow! I think I may have even more questions now. Did Daryl pick up the book about abuse for personal "self-help" - to better understand Carol - to better understand his brother Merle? All of the above? Also interesting that he wants the kid, Noah, to live in spite of stealing their weapons...then changes his mind when this puts Carol at risk.

I assumed Darryl picked up the book to help him better understand and help Carol. But your other suggestions are possibilities too. Though really I think it is not going to turn out to be much of a story point going forward. The book that is. It just seems like a little tidbit into how their relationship has developed.

Again, it took me a minute or two to realize who Noah actually was. Letting him live was a statement of his feelings for Carol more than he could have with words.