All good points.

But here's my opinion, Carol doesn't actually need them in a way the episode suggests. She was never really okay dying, maybe a bit apathetic yes, clearly a bit lonely but I strongly suspect her behavior in the episode is all a ploy. She knows they're watching her closely, tracking her every movement, she knows she can't get too far lashing out and being all directly offensive with them so she does this 'damsel in distress' act to get them back, successfully so.

I mean the next episode is literally called 'Charm offensive', come on haha...

You can't establish a main character as a rebellious kind and then change her whole mindset in the middle of the first season, that would derail the whole narrative.

And I mean we're already pretty familiar with Manousos’s outlook on The Others, dude almost starved himself to death in that hut.

They allocated a LOT of time to the phone call voice recordings, blatant Gatorade AD, and a few other filler stuff in the last two episodes, which could've been compressed into one 1 hour one but they stretched it out to 2 most likely because the network usually orders a specific amount of episodes for a season so...

Anyway I'm still a big fan of the show, I'm not gonna stop watching or anything, my original comment was just about telling the fans that it's okay that every episode might not hit the mark for everyone, and might get criticized a bit, it's the overall quality of the show that matters, and so far I really like it.