The Walking Dead returns to AMC on Sunday, October 11th, and while it's arguably coming off its strongest season to date with Season 5, it wouldn't quite be The Walking Dead if some of the characters weren't making decisions so dumb and dense that they made you want to facepalm yourself into oblivion.
And while The Walking Dead itself, the original series, has certainly gotten better about character choices and motivations, spinoff series Fear the Walking Dead hit the air at the end of this past summer and introduced us to a whole new cast of characters dead set on driving us mad with cringe-worthy choices and bonehead moves.
Look, The Walking Dead universe is an intense one. The weak don't survive. Hell, sometimes the strong don't either. And when every episode's about survival it's only natural that viewers become super-invested in every choice the survivors make, comparing those choices to what they themselves would do in the same situation (while also knowing full well that none of us would survive a single afternoon in this zombie-filled hell). So we scrutinize. And hold characters to very high, pragmatic standards. But even knowing this, and our pickiness, these guys have made some stupid-ass decisions.
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And while The Walking Dead itself, the original series, has certainly gotten better about character choices and motivations, spinoff series Fear the Walking Dead hit the air at the end of this past summer and introduced us to a whole new cast of characters dead set on driving us mad with cringe-worthy choices and bonehead moves.
Look, The Walking Dead universe is an intense one. The weak don't survive. Hell, sometimes the strong don't either. And when every episode's about survival it's only natural that viewers become super-invested in every choice the survivors make, comparing those choices to what they themselves would do in the same situation (while also knowing full well that none of us would survive a single afternoon in this zombie-filled hell). So we scrutinize. And hold characters to very high, pragmatic standards. But even knowing this, and our pickiness, these guys have made some stupid-ass decisions.
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