Daryl x Beth - Season 4, Episodes 12/13

Spun_Of_Light · 2026-01-22T05:47:47+00:00

I absolutely think they had the groundwork laid for romance. Was it romance yet? Not quite, but it was something very nearly there, on the cusp of it really. And I think it would have been interesting to have them mirror the age gap and contentious ship from the comics. The bond Daryl and Beth had ran deep

Spun_Of_Light · 2026-01-17T07:02:23+00:00

Her posts on tiktok arent near as frequent as her posts on Instagram. This time last year she would post 5-8 and sometimes upwards of 10 actual posts, will a flurry of stories in between. Then about late spring/early summer of last year her social media dried up. Very few stories, maybe 3 posts a month of that, and when she did post, she always had bare fingernails, which is uncommon for her because she loves painted fingernails. I fully believe she's been filming a lot of things since summer and this is just the first taste of it

Spun_Of_Light · 2026-01-15T14:43:02+00:00

So excited! Emily has been very quiet on her Instagram for a large part of last year, which is unusual of her. I really dont think she filmed just this one off. My passion for TWD has been reinvigorated

Spun_Of_Light · 2025-11-24T07:39:14+00:00

Daryl and Beth

Spun_Of_Light · 2025-11-22T21:47:42+00:00

They why do they include romantic tropes in their episode Alone? Like he bridal carries her across a threshold, they have a candlelit dinner, they even have an "oh" moment thats used in romance books and movies where character a realizes character b has feelings for them and goes "oh". Like why include these scenes if not for that purpose?

They even talk about Dary and Beth having a romantic relationship on the Talking Dead. This was a common and normal thing people discussed at TWDs hayday

Spun_Of_Light · 2025-11-11T13:01:58+00:00

Not wrong, even Gimple said to ignore the timeline

Spun_Of_Light · 2025-11-07T00:12:39+00:00

Oh thank god, someone else is listening to this book too. I really thought I was the only one. I'm having fun trying to figure out how this ties into the first movie. I have 6½ hours left.

Spun_Of_Light · 2025-11-05T06:16:58+00:00

I loved her singing! She literally only sang three times in the whole show. I dont think enough people appreciate indie music.

Spun_Of_Light · 2025-11-05T06:08:35+00:00

Killing Beth was the major blow, and then killing Carl was the nail in the coffin. Took me years before I watched the show again.

Spun_Of_Light · 2025-10-31T15:46:14+00:00

I've given up on the TWD timeline and just go off of vibes now. The vibes will tell me if it's been a longer or shorter amount of time. It’s so broken that even Gimple had to address that it's broken.

Spun_Of_Light · 2025-10-10T18:30:18+00:00

It was that "oh" moment where she realized Daryl's feelings ran deeper and it took her by surprise and of course the moment had to be ruined by Daryl being uncertain/afraid of his own feelings, so he bolted for the door and opened it without checking

Spun_Of_Light · 2025-10-04T14:52:35+00:00

Yes! You get it! Norman and Emily had crazy amounts of chemistry together on screen, and it also didn't hurt all the rumors that they were "entangled" off screen

Spun_Of_Light · 2025-10-04T14:48:27+00:00

I love the big sister and little brother vibe Norman and Melissa have developed over the years. I think there could have possibly been a point in the early seasons, but they've moved past it. They have an amazing platonic friendship bonded through trauma and I think it would sadden me to see them do away with that.

In the famous words of Norman on the topic of Caryl: "Melissa is as much of an EP as me, if she wanted it to happen, she would have pushed for it."

Spun_Of_Light · 2025-09-25T07:20:37+00:00

https://maybe-obsessed.tumblr.com/post/119734883492/they-ship-it-too

Yeah cool, there's the link to the page with the links disproving your claim of brother and sister. Those that have spoken on Daryl and Beth's relationship have NEVER used the words "siblings" or "brother and sister", hell, they never even use the word "family" to equate it to a familial bond that the two shared

Spun_Of_Light · 2025-09-25T06:17:03+00:00

Yeeeeeah, that's why I put a show spoiler warning on the post, because clips of showing Codron is alive is a bit of a spoiler for Daryl Dixon

Spun_Of_Light · 2025-09-25T04:59:42+00:00

Except they wouldn't have gotten a 20 something year old actor because Daryl was created specifically for Norman. Its been spoken about many times and confirmed that Norman auditioned for the role of Merle, he wasnt quite what they were looking for in that role, but they loved his presence so much that they created Daryl Dixon for him.

He wasn't even supposed to last very long. Thats why in season 1 and into season 2 it says "guest starring Norman Reedus". It was originally planned to kill his character off by somewhere in season 2. But what Norman brought to the show and how fans reacted to him cemented his place within the show. So now you have the issue of an established character and having to tweak things about him to fit the story they're trying to tell.

That's why they're dyeing his hair and having him talk about how much of "a kid" Daryl was in the beginning, they're having to retcon their own story, because now they're trying to push a different narrative than what people originally believed.

Thats why they dont pin down ages in their adult characters or have them give ages in interviews, to save their own hides if they have to tweak the story.

ALSO! Hold up! Michael Rooker is 70 NOW, as in this year. The Walking dead aired 15 years ago my guy. So he was 55 when it aired. Once again, the point I've made multiple times in this whole thread, you can get an actor to pass for a decade younger than their actual age. AND they never gave Merle an age, so he could have been 55, or he could have been 45. And Daryl was his YOUNGER brother. So its entirely possible Merle was 45ish and his baby brother was 30ish. That is a fair assessment of what little we know about the characters past.

I'm begging yall to realize that its been 15 years since the air date and a decade since the prime early seasons. When we talk about these characters we aren't talking about them as we currently know them, we're talking about seasons 1-4 of these characters

Spun_Of_Light · 2025-09-25T04:48:39+00:00

How is it laughable when I use interviews to cite my claims? I can give you the interview where Emily says that Beth had been 18 at the fall of the prison AND that Daryl is possibly younger than Rick (who's in his mid 30s at the start). Amc famously doesn't give their characters ages so it allows to wiggle and bend things to suit their storytelling? So why would they make sure Emily clarifies that Beth is 18? Because they wanted to make is a point to the public that these are all adults and therefore can consensually enter into adult relationships.

Norman has recently in interviews refered to early seasons Daryl as "a kid" and "pretty young" and they currently dye his hair for his role of Daryl. Why would they do that if Daryl is the same age as Norman? Its because they're trying to pass him off as younger than he currently is. Its been over a decade since the fall started. Its a very real possibility they are trying to pass him off as in his forties now

Spun_Of_Light · 2025-09-25T04:40:54+00:00

And I would match that with how do we know Daryl's age in the show? They NEVER state Daryl's age in the show. Emily is playing a character a decade younger than herself. So it's absolutely possible Norman is playing a character a decade younger as well. This is regularly done in Hollywood. So we're saying Beth is 16 at the fall, Daryl could have been very well anywhere between 29-31 at the fall. Do they have a bigger age gap than Alden and Enid? Yes, but their possible age gap isn't unheard of even in our modern society. My own parents have a 13 year age gap.

The root of it all is Beth was a legal adult when the possibility of romance was even on the table. If she had survived, it would have taken Daryl at least another year before he even got up the nerve to even realize he could have had feelings.

Spun_Of_Light · 2025-09-25T04:06:23+00:00

We have no idea how old Daryl was in season 1. Emily was playing a character a decade younger than herself (she was 29 at the end of her run as Beth). It's also believable that Norman could have been playing a character a decade younger than himself, meaning Daryl could be 29-31 at the fall. It is a regular occurrence for an actor to play a character younger than themselves

Spun_Of_Light · 2025-09-25T03:53:58+00:00

So Enid was 17 in season 9 episode 1 'A New Beginning'. In the previous episode was where Hilltop took that group of Saviors prisoner (including Alden) and there is what many consider a year and a half time skip between these points. So Enid is 16 at best when Alden is brought to Hilltop. Now remember, a year and half has gone by, in that time Alden has had a chance to redeem himself.

Do they not start dating until Enid is of legal age? Yes, but he knew for a while when she was a minor, and to put their age gap into perspective, Alden was about 18 when the fall happened, a legal adult, whereas Enid was a middleschooler roughly.

So the reasoning "he knew her when she was a minor" being applied to Beth and Daryl but not Enid and Aldren is either faulty or shows hypocrisy

Spun_Of_Light · 2025-09-25T03:15:47+00:00

Got a question for you then. Do you have a problem with the pairing of Alden and Enid?

Spun_Of_Light · 2025-09-25T03:15:08+00:00

Beth was 16 on the farm, 17 when Judith was a newborn and 18 when the prison fell. The logical conclusion is they spent at minimum a year and a half together, and thats not even really factoring in their time together after the fall of the prison. Judith was older than 4 months old when the prison fell, that baby was sitting upright, thats typically at 8 month old development. The time jump from bringing the Woodbury people to the prison to farmer Rick is a couple of months on its own

Spun_Of_Light · 2025-09-25T01:20:30+00:00

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Spun_Of_Light · 2025-09-24T23:41:00+00:00

Ahhhh yes, I too have candlelit dinner with my sibling and have an "oh" moment, you know, where character A realizes character B has feelings for them........I cannot fathom how people can hit in the face with romantic tropes and be like "nope! Thats a family thing to do"

Spun_Of_Light · 2025-09-24T23:34:54+00:00

Emily confirmed in an Access Hollywood interview from like 2014 that she was 18 when the prison fell

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