The Walking Dead 5.4 Review - 5 Talking Points From "Slabtown"
5. WTF?
When Beth first wakes up, shes immediately scared and surprised at her whereabouts, and with good reason. But after learning what happened to her, her she still never lets her guard down and continues to remain skeptical of her surroundings and the people at the hospital. Throughout the entire episode, shes adamant about leaving the hospital as soon as shes worked off her debt, but why would she ever want to do that? Lets remember that prior to being rescued/abducted by the hospital staff, Beth and Daryl were on the run after the war at the prison, and had just barely escaped from the haunted funeral home with their lives. They were cut off from the rest of the group, and its reasonable for Beth to assume that Daryl hadnt made it out safely. Taking all that into consideration, what is Beth in such a hurry to get back to? The hospital has electricity, water, food, medicine and supplieswhy leave? Theyre clearing doing better than the group was when they were holed up in the prison And while were on the subject, how does the hospital have electricity? Sure, they have generators, but the amount of fuel it would take to run them is well beyond whats reasonably attainable in their situation. And they have an ample enough supply of water that they can just nonchalantly mop the hallways? A suspension of disbelief is obviously required to enjoy a show about zombies, but some things require too many leaps in logic. This is similar to how Rick and the gang run around unleashing bullets on zombies like The Expendables rather than try and conserve what should be a very finite resource. It was an interesting premise that could have been so much more than what it was, but this hospital nonsense needs to be over asap.
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