This is all about Daryl, and Denise's amazing speech about strength, courage, and love is lost to the shock value of making sure Daryl suffers for the weakness of sympathy.
I honestly don’t think there’s another show running currently with this approach to scripting and it’s one of the reasons I love Gimple’s run on The Walking Dead.
As Season Five of The Walking Dead kicks off, Gimple gets the band back together and drives home the simple fact that Carol is a badass and that Rick was wrong.