I tried to leave this subject alone, but I just couldn’t go to sleep w/o writing my observations down. So here we go boys and girls! Here are some of my thoughts on the fight scene.

You know what fight I’m talking about. The fight that starts off with Daryl giving Rick a little push. The push is relevant to Daryl’s growth as a character. He made the first move and made physical contact with another person. He got in Rick’s face, made eye contact, made physical contact, and gave him a nudge. Daryl’s come a long way from flinching at Carol’s kiss in season 2 and not being able to make direct eye contact with anyone he isn’t yelling at. He’s comfortable w/ Rick now and he shows that tonight by initiating contact.

Then it was Rick’s turn. He got physical too and turned Daryl “roughly” to face him. Neither harder nor softer than Daryl’s push mind you. It wasn’t violent (okay it was kinda a pull, but it wasn’t meant to be mean. Both men pushed/pulled as if to say ‘get a grip. Wake up.’ They weren’t flat out being hateful). Rick’s move and motivation wasn’t him trying to take control of the situation. He wasn’t trying to lead or overpower Daryl in anyway. The pull was equal to Daryl’s push showing that they are in fact equals. Neither one is more dominant or in charge of the other. They are team mates and, first and foremost, brothers.

Now for the actual fight. They both got their kicks and licks in and they did pretty okay. But they weren’t fighting because they were angry at each other. Not because they hate each other or their bond has been broken beyond all repair never to be healed again. No, far from any of that. They weren’t trying to overpower each other. They were trying to knock some sense into the other person and get the other to see their perspective. Daryl got the first punch in. He wasn’t thinking. Rick went to tackle Daryl to subdue him. It just didn’t out work.

Rick threw the bag away because he didn’t want Daryl to do something he’d regret later on. Daryl put Rick in a choke hold, again, to subdue. He didn’t want to actually knock Rick out (which might explain why the position of the hold was so poor or at least why it looked funny on screen). Daryl’s smart enough to know that knocking Rick out right now wouldn’t solve anything. Daryl wouldn’t be able to leave him there and then he wouldn’t be able to carry out his plan. And Rick being unconscious could spell trouble for other, more apocalyptic reasons. Daryl was just trying to subdue Rick. Get Rick to calm down, see his side, and allow him to continue on his mission. It just didn’t out work.

As for after the fight, well, we all saw how that went. But did you pay attention?

FIRE! Sure, cool explosion and the loss of some pretty invaluable and irreplaceable weapons. But look more closely.

Rick saw the fire first. He stopped struggling in the hold and started just trying to get Daryl’s attention. And when Daryl saw the flames he knew the truck was about to blow. So what did he do? Run? Leave Rick because “he’s mad at him”? What? No. Of course not. He dropped his hands from the hold and started scrambling to get Rick up to run WITH HIM. He grabbed Rick by the hand and pulled him up to his feet. Then, though it’s a short run, only a few feet with not a lot of space to “act in” before their dramatic jump, you can clearly see both Rick and Daryl pushing each other out of the way. Trying to push each other AWAY from the explosion. Protecting each other and working together like they always have. Sure they had just been arguing. They had a disagreement, but that doesn’t mean they are suddenly going to stop caring about one another.

In the end, nearly the very last frame, you can just make out that Daryl attempts to jump on top of Rick to protect him from the explosion when they both go down from the blast. Daryl puts himself in harms way to protect the man he feels comfortable enough to push around. And when they come up, they are no longer fuming. They’re no longer upset (or st least as mad as when they were fighting). They’ve learned their lesson when they see the damage and that the gear is no longer useable and they (hopefully) realize how silly they were being. They were behaving like children. But more importantly they were behaving like brothers.

Their relationship was never on the edge of a pressibis. This was never going to be the ‘end all’ scene. It was never meant to be the rift that split them apart forever, never to be able to trust each other or work together again.

This scene illustrates their characters and their relationship in regards to each other perfectly. Not just this season with their evident differences, but throughout the series, and how their relationship has evolved, as a whole. Sure they’ve had times were they’ve shared different opinions, but we haven’t seen them fight like this since season 1 (in Atlanta) or have completely opposite opinions since season 6 (about recruiting).

Sure they may have parted ways during this episode, each with their own assignments in mind, and sure they may have still seemed mad. But guess what my friends? They’ll get over it.

And they’ll come out on the other side of this little disagreement of theirs stronger than ever before!

Oh gosh, you got it too huh? I expressed disappointment in Jared once and I got the same reaction from people: “please keep your hate out of the Jared tag.” Only in the SPN fandom does disappointment = hate. I wish people would stop flipping out so much. Apparently you have to agree with everything an actor does to even express an opinion. smh…

Pretty much, yeah :(

I really am/was disappointed in the way society has shifted and it’s now okay to publicly call out/shame a business on SM, and I used Jared’s tweet as an example. He’s tweeted that he accepted Favor’s apology - which is awesome both because they apologized and Jared responded in kind.

There’s no hate here, not from me. I simply wanted to know if his behaviour is normal for this generation or what. From the sounds of things it is. One person even commented saying something like ‘everyone does it’.....to which I can say with absolute assurance: I don’t. I’ve never used SM to get a company to respond to my complaint. Never. And I have had some major complaints. But they’ve always been resolved by me contacting the person in charge. So I thought maybe I’m just old and I do things the old fashioned way - lol!

But really, disappointment isn’t hate. Disagreeing with a celebrity’s choice isn’t hate. I still like Jared, I’m just not really comfortable with his actions in how he used SM to shame a company into getting resolution. (yes, I see it as shaming). I don’t care if ‘everyone does it’. It still makes me feel uncomfortable to see tweets like that and to know the fan base will vilify the company based on the tweet. We don’t have all the details, but people will automatically support Jared because he’s Jared, ignoring any fault he may have had in the situation (yes, he may have been at fault somehow - we don’t have all the facts).