Fans Can’t Decide If Tara Is The Best Or Worst After This Week’s ‘The Walking Dead’

The Walking Dead returns this week to catch us up on a number of non-Carl related storylines, including Eugene’s precarious position in Sanctuary and of course Father Gabriel’s sickly escape out into the wild. Add in Daryl trying to lead a bunch of red shirts through a swamp and you have yourself a pretty packed episode.

Mercy and wrath has been a constant theme through this season of the show, or at least wrath is. Even Carl’s Ghandi-like words before his passing weren’t enough to convince his dad to spare Negan, and now we’ve got Tara out for revenge on Dwight, who killed her girlfriend Denise back in season six. Dwight managed to squeak out of that vindictive situation by the skin on his badly burned brow, and Twitter seemed split down the middle as they cheered Tara on or cursed her for letting a personal vendetta almost doom the group.

— Tara Chambler (@TaraFknChambler) March 12, 2018

Tara “You don’t switch sides and then make it okay.”

Well that’s what you did in S4… #TheWalkingDead

— Justin Thomas (@JustinThomas97) March 12, 2018

'You don't get to change sides like nothing's happened' -Tara #TheWalkingDead #REALLYREALLY pic.twitter.com/3yMBvuQCnY

— Harold & Maudecast (@haroldmaudecast) March 12, 2018

Really Tara, it's not like Dwight was Negan's right hand man at one point where he knows everything about the saviors. #TheWalkingDead #TWD

— Steve Girman (@Stev2859) March 12, 2018

I wonder what’s cleaner, the swamp or Daryl #TheWalkingDead

— Hershel Greene (@HershelGreene1) March 12, 2018

Swamp giving me war flashbacks to our biggest loss #TheWalkingDead pic.twitter.com/tqrYKvPtZg

— Stasii Schulze (@StasiiSchulze) March 12, 2018

Me crossing the zombie infested swamp. #TheWalkingDead #TWD pic.twitter.com/Ug2q8G9rvZ

— Misty B (@Lfeizgud) March 12, 2018

As for Father Gabriel and Dr. Carson, they got punched in the face with a series of both extremely good and terribly bad luck.

— Walking Dead Hub (@weallaretwd) March 12, 2018

Dr. Carson and Father Gabriel. A man of science and a man of God. Your new apocalypse buddy team! #TWD #DemDeadz

— We So Nerdy (@WeSoNerdy) March 12, 2018

Of ALL THE FUCKING CARS, yall choose a Jaguar to escape in Them damn things NEVER work #TheWalkingDead #WalkingDead #deywalking #demdeadz

— Dr. Bunsen Honeydew (@Laughin_Man) March 12, 2018

Why do they always kill doctors Like their such an important source you’d thing you’d save them #TheWalkingDead pic.twitter.com/CB8vuxrFCJ

— Madison (@madisxnparker) March 12, 2018

The apocalypse doesn’t seem to be the right place for doctors. #TheWalkingDead pic.twitter.com/Qa44x3ZbDM

— Rick Grimes (@RickAndThangs) March 12, 2018

Meanwhile back at the Hilltop, Carol and Morgan continued to remind us why they need to head off for their own spin-off show and never look back. I could watch them try to raise psycho apocalypse children for several seasons.

— Brie Berman (@brielee) March 12, 2018

Did Maggie's baby bump grow this time #TheWalkingDead pic.twitter.com/ADz6lnvgAd

— Esmeralda Godinez (@EsmeChristina) March 12, 2018

Morgan is just like: The kid's fine. I'm fine. Everything is good. #TWD #DemDeadz pic.twitter.com/va46uhMA25

— We So Nerdy (@WeSoNerdy) March 12, 2018

How is this long haired, smart mouthed savior STILL alive! #TDCPod #TheWalkingDead pic.twitter.com/auq9tiRTY6

— Okoye’s Wig ‍♀️‍♀️‍♀️ (@Brad_Lee13) March 12, 2018

Siddiq should really start very sentence with "I'm a doctor" like "I'm a doctor; where's the bathroom" "I'm a doctor; pass the ketchup." #TheWalkingDead #DemDeadz

— Black Nerd Problems (@BlkNrdProblems) March 12, 2018

We keep having to relive Carl’s death each episode through the others reactions #TheWalkingDead pic.twitter.com/yzr0Rh1ocw

— Madison (@madisxnparker) March 12, 2018

Enid’s reaction was our reaction. #TheWalkingDead pic.twitter.com/RZYickLa6f

— Rick Grimes (@RickAndThangs) March 12, 2018

Carl’s death continues to be an emotional sucker punch in the stomach that the show can unleash at any time. This time it was Enid learning that her favorite hollowed out tree companion died that put us over the edge, and yep … seeing everyone cry still gets us right in the feels. As for Dr. Carson At best we’re only concerned about his death due to the growing scarcity of decent healthcare in the area. It’s going to take a bigger loss than that to get us off the Carl mourning train.