The Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 12 (UNEDITED REACTION!)

That is Shane's baby, Yo! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤭🤭🤭

I was saying to myself "they're a part of a commune. They're communists now!" just as Deanna said the communists won after all XD

There we go! Now I'm finally up-to-date. I love what Carol is doing, playing the part, like she's not the badass that saved her friends from Terminus. And about Rick? Yeah he doesn't sound like Officer Friendly anymore. I wonder what Shane would think.

Me thinks Carol might be playing the long game here, making herself seem weaker than she is 🤔

Yes, Daryl doesn't seem to want to go back to that world where he was looked at as a low life, he found his place in this group and he has purpose. Who will he be here, he is a red neck in an uppity community. I love the role Carol is playing, she is so good at looking like she is the innocent, incompetent widow.

I cant believe you fell for "community carol". Lol.

That first meeting is one of my favorite scenes, Rick’s voice when he says “you’ve been behind these walls this entire time?”

The town is a real town. It’s a town called Senoia. They really put walls around it for the show. They’re no longer up since the show ended. But it was a big tourist attraction when they were up.

Welcome to Alexandria Tom!🫶🏾 This my favorite arc of the whole show 🔥

I love the Alexandria arc, it’s so underrated in both comics and show. Such good dynamics between the old world and the new one

Mm Daryl is not comfortable in this fancy community. I think he’s always been looked down on from people like these. And he can’t pretend to be someone he’s not like Carol did. She’s blending in quickly and want to look as harmless as possible.

I just love how Carol disguises herself as the weak mom that needs a group to keep her safe. The move taking off the gun was brilliant. She’s set herself up to meet all the people, learn bout them and never been seen as a threat. Meanwhile she’s meeting with Rick and Daryl about contingencies and backup plans. Stealthy in a blue cardigan. 🤣

We don't see the characters you listed because each episode is less than an hour long. As more characters are added, character arcs have to be alternated.

Maybe Daryl is indeed that proverbial 'outdoor cat' as mentioned by whatshisface (claimer) in an earlier episode. Also - if he is too clean and fresh it may not be as good for hunting. Better to smell like a forest floor, perhaps.

The laughing at private school kids might have been the best part of this episode 😆

Rick has already said Carl was a man. I wouldn't expect Rick to freak out because he is outside the walls.

And now we have arrived at Alexandria! Yay! 😀

Carol is just playing the part and knows exactly what she’s doing. She doesn’t want the community to know that she’s actually strong. I’m honestly surprised she didn’t hide any weapons.

Damm, is that really Rick behind all that man-bush?? 😂

Funny I haven't seen the preacher either??? The one with the church and he was on that rock that they saved him from, I can't remember his name but I haven't seen him either 😆

It makes sense that at least some people in our group may have a hard time adjusting to a more 'civilized' way of living again. It's so foreign to them at this point. And yes, the biggest 'catch' of Alexandria is that they are weak. They have just gone about life inside the walls, very few of them ever going out. They don't know about ANY of the struggles other ppl who have 'lived out there' and how to handle things; most of them probably have never even held a gun. So it'll be interesting to see how Deanna and her community help our group, which at this point compared to Alexandria are damn near feral wild people lol, adjust. But also, the Alexandrians will also need to adjust and take on the info and advice our group gives them. Together, it could be an amazingly strong community. Which they need because you know it won't stay peaceful forever. It's only been so good, so quiet, and so abundant with food/resources because of what Deanna said (that the whole of North Virginia was effectively evacuated, so the millions of ppl there were moved out so when the ppl at Alexandria got sent to that community to wait for rescue, that housing plan was immensely secure and with supplies and amenities like solar power, water filtering, etc. Aside from the wall, which Deanna's husband built. But for hundreds and hundreds of miles there's been almost no people, almost no walkers, and a whole region of supplies in stores, houses, etc untouched so Alexandria has just been living the very good life this whole time. I can see how maybe people from the outside might judge them, or have a low level of patience with them because Alexandria does just feel like a different world, it is almost like 'before'. And I think Rick is just at his most protective, hardened state and it's easy to see why. Carol is on guard too, and poor Daryl just feels so out of place in a community like that. Before the fall, he'd never seen houses or places like that. Also, Rick being a 'cop again' may've been hard for him to see or something because before the apocalypse, Daryl and Rick would've been on different sides of the fence, with Daryl being law-breaking with Merle and Rick looking down on and arresting guys like them. Rick only has respect for Daryl now though, I hope Daryl sees that.

I was in emdr therapy for almost 5 years and it really helped me. I respect the practice you do Tom. Some of my main trauma was from growing up and having friends pick on me in a friendly way but to me it wasn't friendly and I held onto those feelings my whole life. They would embarrass me about something and I if Iwas ever in another situation like that later I would always freeze up and not want to be in the situation. Another thing was every single girlfriend cheated on me so every scenario with other girlfriends would always keep me on guard thinking it was gonna happen every time, even if i trusted them I still couldn't get past certain scenarios around other men, when drinking was involved, if they ever went to stay the night somewhere Iwould always be freaking out. My mom was in a severe car accident hit by a drunk driver on her 7 th dui when I was 17 , my mom was given so many pain meds that she ended up being an addict after a few years and my family didn't understand that so she disappeared for almost 10 years. Years later I was prescribed pain meds and it took me almost 15 years to get out from under being an addict myself, I've learned so much about life and the things we keep ourselves prisoners from when we go thru these traumas. Even though I'm not activity doing emdr therapy anymore I still use the structures from it, if something is holding me back mentally I stop and remind myself to forgive the bad memory and that it most likely won't happen again and to live life without fear of the repeating situations. I have a million other things I've had to work thru in therapy and on my own and I've finally got to a point that i can navigate life myself, with a ton of help from my wife, This is why my wife and I are nomads and we travel from WI to AZ every winter. Being in a apartment is very hard because we've had too many neighbors who also give us trauma with the way things have happened over the years. We are at our best when we are in the warm weather and glamping and bringing friends and family in on our time, not being held under anyone's thumb. I get to perform my music at a few places in AZ and anywhere on the road. I was even gonna try to do a few songs at the edge of the grand canyon but they said i would need a permit, i might still try to do it when we go back in a few weeks 😄 I know some people won't understand this but it works best for us and I'm glad we finally found a safe routine that makes us happy and feel and be safe. We always have everything we need, we are actually looking for land in Northern AZ so we can build our own home and settle. Anyways ,I love watching your reactions Tom 😊

Yesits a real community! It’s not in Virginia like the show but south of Atlanta Georgia in Sonia Ga. It’s very close to where they filmed Woodbury. It’s a cool tour ..lots of things near by, like some houses we saw while they were on the road. The house rick and Carl was in when michonne found them. The pudding house. Plus more stuff I cant mention lol

Love this episode! Such 180 flip from what we are used to! Thanks for your posts Tom, great birthday gift today !!

Welcome to Alexandria, Tom!!!!

Omg Carol trying to get that giant rifle off 🤣 and she smiles after putting it on the cart

I never get tired of seeing Aidan & Nicholas get humbled by Glenn & Daryl. I think Rick was a little bit concerned when he first spotted Carl outside the walls but I think that part of him is glad that Carl doesn’t want to constantly hide behind those walls and that he will stay strong.

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