P.S. I also wrote a feminist analysis on Michonne, Jessy, and Carol for my Rhetoric College class. I agree with you that viewers are too often blinded by the enlightened feminism in narratives in the media they consume. The female characters experience death and loss as their catalyst to self realizations. As long as they don’t venture too far from the sphere of hegemonic femininity, domesticity, and complicitness the characters are easier pills to swallow.