Now, all that said, main characters shouldn't exactly be as easy to kill as the more transitory figures. Given the choice, most of us would sacrifice a few dozen innocent bystanders to save Rick or Daryl. Heck, watching people get eaten alive is half the fun of a show with zombies. Still, there are certain scenes where it's fairly obvious that we're meant to be more affected by the person doing the dying than the awesome way that they're doing it. One example comes from a scene in the second episode of the fourth season, when Carol tries to save the life of a father who has been bitten by a Walker. With his last words, he extracts a vow from Carol that she will look after his daughters. Crying, she agrees, and he dies. Melissa McBride is great in the scene, and it would have been incredibly touching...if only we knew who on earth this guy was supposed to be. And he was just one of many to have died in that episode. We're told that people died. We see bodies being carried out of the prison. We hear people crying. The main actors can act their hearts out; if we don't know the character, we're probably not going to care very much if he or she dies. Honestly, if it's an interesting death, we'll probably even rewind to watch it again. On a show called The Walking Dead, people are going to die. Lots and lots of people are going to die, and they can't all be main players. Minor characters can die, extras can succumb to disease, and Young Woman #3 can certainly be ripped to shreds by hungry Walkers rather than Maggie or Michonne. The show needs to either give us a reason to care about these characters or to not expect us to mourn when somebody we've never seen before dies a gruesome death. Better yet, maybe keep some of those extras around and give them names. They don't all have to exist for just to die en masse.