Brotherhood and the Real Cost of Tyrese on The Walking Dead

***This article contains spoilers for the most recent episode of THE WALKING DEAD, “What Happened and What’s Going On?”*** Well before Tyrese actually caught that last train to Georgia, folks on twitter already knew something was going to happen when Tyrese began getting these extended conversations with Noah. Maybe it’s because TV rarely strays from such familiar beats like having an episode where someone all of a sudden gets a ton of dialogue just to get “shockingly” offed by the end of it. Or because The Walking Dead has this policy it seems of how many black men it can keep on the show at one time. That last part sounds like a joke and hyperbole, but it’s been proven over (enter Tyrone, exit Oscar) and over (enter Father Gabriel, exit Bob) and over (enter Noah, exit Tyrese) again. Since Father Gabriel should’ve BEEN dead by now, I imagine they’re saving his demise for whenever “Book of Eli” Morgan catches up with the group. But the clock was ticking on Tyrese as soon as he began consoling Noah over his zombie ravaged home. The most tragic part of that for me is that Tyrese was just becoming useful. It may not be fair to call the gentle giant “soft” since he could swing the hammer like John Henry, but his moral compass has caused more than a few problems along the way. And the ghost of zombie food past had no chill in reminding him of that during his last moments. But it’s possible that the brute force, kill everything that moves Tyrese wasn’t the role that he needed to fi…