The Walking Dead: Rick Grimes' 10 Stupidest Mistakes So Far

10. Living On A Farm

Walking Dead Farm1 I suppose living on the hills outside Atlanta might've been a good idea. I'm also willing to admit that when it comes down to it, The Prison is an awesome place to hole up. The first is remote, patrolled and easily moveable (it's just a convoy of vehicles, after all) and the second is built for keeping people out/in. Yet in between the two, he takes his group to a goddamned farm. I understand why they had to stay there €“ Carl had been shot after an ill-fated hunting expedition and Hershel was the nearest thing to a medical expert about. Afterward, it was a pretty decent base to track Sophia from. Yet after Carl got better and Sophia was outed as a zombie, an odd thing happened €“ Rick fell in love with the rural life, and decided his convoy should stop there. I'm sorry, what? Why in hell would you do that? I guess there's the logic that Rick was trying to carve out a stable existence, but really, it didn't matter how many crops he intended to grow €“ come winter, the zombies would've made it over the swampland, and if they'd survived that, they would've eventually waded in under the cover of crops. What Rick didn't seem to realise is that green and pleasant land does not hinder zombie movement €“ in fact, they straight-up love that sh*t, and no amount of paltry barbed wire fencing is going to stop them.
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