The Walking Dead: 10 Giant Plot-Holes You Probably Missed

4. Some Overrun Places Should€™ve Been Easily Defendable

The scene when Rick first rides into an abandoned Atlanta next to the crowded highway was some of the best visuals seen on the show. As great and atmospheric as it was to see a massive metropolis abandoned in the wake of the apocalypse, there really shouldn€™t be a reason why urbanised areas should be so easily overrun. Rather than flee the city like literally everyone else and get caught up in horrendous traffic, it is actually easier to defend a city than you might think. Seeing as how The Walking Dead's zombies are slow, noisy, and can't fly, the limited entrances in tall buildings help provide a bottleneck as to where zombies could come in. Not only can you limit the damage of a zombie invasion by cutting off access to higher levels in a building, but it also means that zombies can be easily picked off as their only way up is through the limited flights of stairs. There's also the advantage of knowing the twists and turns of a familiar urban setting as opposed to blindly running through the woods and potentially getting ambushed from all sides. So what Rick and his group have been doing for the last few years has been completely wrong and they probably should've just holed up in a skyscraper somewhere. Detractors may say that fortifying yourself in a skyscraper is a good short term plan, but zombies hordes are enormous and won't stop until they eat your brains. Well actually, zombie hordes may not be as big as you might think...