The Walking Dead: Y’all Need Less Feelings

So… I just watched this week’s episode of The Walking Dead and all I can think is no one cares about your feelings. No one. At all. You know who has time for feelings? People who are not living in the zombie apocalypse, that’s who. Basically: not y’all. Live footage of me during most of the episode [divider type=”space_thin”]Granted I’m biased. I allow myself to feel things like once a year, usually in January, on a Tuesday for about 42 minutes between the hours of 2:07 pm and 3:19 pm. But even people walking around freebasing their emotions gotta know that there’s a time and a place for all that. So let’s talk about Jesus and Maggie:Why is Jesus on some “I never let myself get close to people before” mess? Now? Now you decide to get close to people? Now that the chance of them dying suddenly has increased exponentially. That just seems… reckless. Now is the time to become emotionally closed off. No, doesn’t work like that. Not anymore.[divider type=”space_thin”]Why is Jesus pursuing a friendship with two wanted fugitives who are hiding out in his town against the wishes of his treacherous leader, Gregory? Nothing about this says lasting stable relationship, especially with Sasha spending half her time next to Abraham’s grave and the other half training an army of civilians that Gregory so eloquently–and probably accurately–referred to as cannon fodder. They barely know each other. Maggie and Daryl, on the other hand, go back. Way back. [sigh] I see Daryl is in his feelin…