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Welcome to The Watching Dead, the officially unofficial podcast for The Walking Dead on AMC. I'm Jim.

I'm Aaron. And today I've talked about season 10 episode 21 titled Diverged. This is the one

where Carol makes soup for an hour. Hey, Ron. What you think of it?

So people like a feedbacker from Weeks Hince had warned me that this is the worst one. So I was expecting

this to be just phenomenally colossally bad. And I kind of thought it was funny. And it just

so happens that we were speculating on what like, you know, if if if if Darryl gets up there and

says, Hey, man, this Darryl carol spin, if I go be like anything like nothing you ever seen,

man, like what the fuck does that mean? And I'm like, well, maybe it's like kind of like a

screw ball kind of twisted Z nation comedy. And like, isn't that what we got this episode?

Z nation style comedy. No, it was definitely like more comedy than The Walking Dead usually has.

And that's probably because Jerry featured as like, I would say the second most on screen

a character in this episode Darryl coming in a close third, I guess. But yeah, Jerry's you know,

Jerry's immensely fun to watch. And his character is kind of funny season. So yeah, I mean,

those parts of the episode were fun, but ultimately like this is a huge waste of time, right? I

mean, what what does Carol come out of this episode? Having decided because she the whole point is

episode she's deciding whether or not to stay, right? Does she go back on her pirate life adventure

or does she stay here and try and make herself useful? This fucking utility knife or whatever,

this Swiss Army knife is all the big metaphor, the rats, the big metaphor. I don't know. It seemed

like a bunch of chale tasting, chale tasting, tail chasing and not just the right time. Yeah, I

think you're right. I mean, I guess I was keeping in mind that I didn't think that we were going to

move the plot ahead that these were going to be things that fill in the character gaps and you know,

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