I saw the sneak peek for the finale next week and I love the Carol bits I saw. Go Carol! Love her character now.
However, wtf are they doing with this whole Pete bit honestly? Why does Rick care? That woman is married who cares leave them alone. Who cares if she dies?! The dynamic with that woman isn't one of abuse and she's a big girl if she wants to leave she can. I'd love for Carol to mess around with Pete a bit and terrorize him, maybe kill him I'm okay with it but I don't really want Rick killing someone because he *might* do something in the future especially over some woman he just met. He's a leader, Carol has a score to settle. Rick has turned into Shane in almost every way possible, which Rick has never really had a solid strong character or the integrity of Dale so I'm not surprised it happened eventually.
I agree philosophically with the idea that civilized people don't do things like that while admitting that it would be nice to wipe out abusive individuals from the gene pool when you have the chance, but no person ought to have that kind of power over another. Inside the walls you can attain higher living than out with the walkers and the things you need to do to survive are different. That is why the Alexandrians don't work well outside the walls. This is nothing to look down on imo. If Rick wants to act like uncivilized and crazy he needs to go back out with the walkers, and die with them if need be. We evolved with cooperation because cooperation with others keeps you alive. There's no glory in living and killing among the walkers.