Hey everyone, it's September which means that a new fall season is upon us. Within the next month, we'll get the season premieres of our favourite shows as well as some new series premieres.
The Walking Dead is one of the shows that I'm particularly excited for. After the huge uproar about the ending, the less than ideal cliffhanger, and the countless debates over who Negan killed, we're soon about to find out what happens to our favourite group of misfits next.
As always, the upcoming premiere has brought about many new articles about the show. One that I came across recently was from ScreenRant and as titled "All the Dumb Mistakes Characters on The Walking Dead Keep Making." Naturally, I had to read it and while the author did make some pretty interesting point there were other points that I disagreed with. In other cases, I found inaccurate accounts of events in the show which, as a self-proclaimed super fan, I just had to correct.
For the full article that I'm responding to, please follow this link:
http://screenrant.com/fatal-dumb-worst-mistakes-walking-dead-characters-keep-making/ It'll probably make my explanations below make a lot more sense.
16. Reliance on Unprepared People
While I agree, to an extent, with the author on this one I first have to point out that, unfortunately, it's just not possible to do this. There are many times in our lives, not just in the zombie apocalypse, that we have to count on people that we'd rather not, or can't, rely on. The author's main point here is that Jessie, Ron, and Sam should not have been expected to walk out into the walker horde because they weren't used to being around walkers. Quite honestly though, it was walk into the horde or be eaten in their own house. The walkers were instead, literally breaking through doors and windows. There was nothing else that they could have done. I'd also argue that Rick and company weren't really relying on them all that much - other than to just be quiet and not draw attention to themselves. Is it unfortunate that they had to do this when Sam was still in the middle of a nervous breakdown? Yes. But that doesn't mean they could have done anything else.
15. Not Counting Ammo
Unfortunately, not everyone is Deadpool. We can't all count down our ammo as we're shooting at hoards of walkers. In high-stress situations like that, no one is going to be able to calmly figure out if they have bullets left or not - they're just going to keep shooting until they run out and then punch and stab their way out of there.
14. Being Loud
The author has a point to this one. In a world where walkers, and humans for that matter, are drawn to you by sound it's smart to stay quiet. However, Carl's gunshot is not the one that lured the walkers to Hershel's farm. When Rick stabs Shane, Shane's gun goes off - that's the shot that attracted the walkers. They were already pretty much upon them by the time Carl shot walker-Shane. I get that a lot of people hate Carl, but let's stop blaming him for the mistakes of others, shall we?
11. Food Freshness
I don't know about you, but when I'm starving in the middle of the zombie apocalypse I'm not exactly going to be looking at the expiration dates on the food that I'm lucky enough to find. When there is little to no food available - and no fresh food available unless you kill or grow it yourself - you don't have the luxury of being picky about what you want to eat (unless something is obviously rotten and bound to make you sick). That being said, most of the time those are "best before" dates anyway and don't actually mean that it can't be safely consumed after that time.
6. Arming the Untrustworthy
The major argument here is that Ron shouldn't have been given a gun and that if he hadn't then Carl would still have his eye. Quite honestly, I don't think that anyone can disagree with that. However, Ron had his gun for all of five minutes before the wall fell and the walkers flooded Alexandria. And after Ron attacked Carl int he house? Carl took it away. Unfortunately, during the chaos that ensued with Sam and Jessie in the hoard the gun fell and Ron managed to snag it. Although it is unfortunate that Carl lost his eye, that doesn't really seem like giving it to him to me. Another note to make is that eventually you have to try and trust people with those guns. The group just doesn't have a lot of manpower if you just count the "trustworthy" ones. Plenty of characters on the show, once given a chance, actually proved to be quite helpful and trustworthy. It's a risk yes, but sometimes has to be done and can sometimes have good results.
Quite honestly though, in this type of fictional world pretty much anything goes and the writers can do whatever they want. Yes, the characters do stupid things a lot of the time. However, good luck avoiding some of these things if you were thrown into this situation. And to be fair, the group can be pretty smart a lot of the time too
What do you think about the group? Do you agree with the original author or me? Have your own opinions? Let me know in the comments!
