Hell with it, I will bite:
Are you serious dKersten. Do you have an idea how much suspense of disbelief you have to give this show for people with the IQ over an egg muffin. We are suppose to believe the whole world was taken over by stupid slow moving…..
Never mind none of that matters.
The point of my post wasn't to say that this show is 100% solid, but the rule in story telling is to create a suspension of disbelief by explaining things with things that are plausible, and when you can't do that, either use a plausible explanation that can't be disproved (ie doesn't exist but makes sense if it did), or just leave it alone and pretend that everyone understands that this is just how it is. It is when you try to explain something and then base the story line on that explanation that you get into trouble.
Frankly, if you took the time to explain every detail with only facts that apply to our universe as we know them today (ie reality), you would have a really boring show that was more of a non-fiction "what if" story than an actual fun to watch tv show. If you could even create a story to begin with.
I know what you are getting at with the slow moving zombies, but they didn't mess with how it started or spread so fast. They started AFTER the fact, and you just make some assumptions of the chaos that reigned. The one thing they did reveal was that everyone was infected, which would suggest it is airborne, so when you don't know what is going on, you end up with zombies where you least expect. In the beginning they aren't so slow and easy to kill. And when you don't know how to kill them, or what is going on, you aren't going to be reacting by putting bullets in your wife's head, you are going to seek answers and end up getting eaten by some zombie horde. Is it realistic? Who cares, it happened in this story and this is the setting.
In Walking Dead
The entire world is only as big as Georgia
This is the story of one group of people in one area. If they made this show about every place on earth, they would have to make it about every person on earth. This group has not traveled extensively far because where are they going to go? any major roadway is clogged with cars, no passage there. That leaves back roads and forests that are filled with millions of zombies.
Nothing happened before and during the zombie attacks, no news was given and everyone apparently died in like one day; The survivors do not know what’s going on at all. They might as well woken up one morning and the world turned into “The Road”
As I said above, you don't know the whole story, only a small glimpse as told by one man and the people he meets. One man who was in a coma when it all happened. Any place that made a stand was soon overrun by zombies from the inside because nobody knew to shoot the dead in the head.
vehicles are hard to come by, they get lost. They also cannot just run over zombies like bowling pins in a truck, that would make humans overpowered and that would be no fun.
Every time the cast needs a vehicle they go get one. In the last episode they are in the middle of the forest with no roads around, no towns in sight, and no supplies like gas and batteries. So they say they need to find a car. And they do. But they have a large group, so they need larger transportation. AND they need something that won't get bogged down when plowing through zombies.. Most vehicles might be able to get up to speed and plow through a group of people, possibly 15 or 20 people deep before they run out of momentum and the power to keep going.. Imagine trying to do that with a horde of 10,000 people.. you would get 40 feet in and then be surrounded.. the ones you knocked down are undead and get right back up and now you are surrounded with no way to escape. Brilliant idea, just mow them down.
Zombies are dying in droves every day, not that many are being made. They are getting stuck in places or fall over and can't get back up, but there are always an infinite number of them walking around freely and as long as this show is on the air there always will be.
Say there are 500 people left alive in Georgia, before the zombies there were 10 million. So only 9 million, 999 thousand, 500 people zombies left over. Have you ever seen a crowd of, say, 10,000? Like at a concert or something? There would be 1000 hordes of that many zombies running around. And even if there are only 100 hordes of that size, that would leave thousands of groups of 10-100 zombies, and still have room left for thousands upon thousands of extra zombies running around. I think in the show they have portrayed maybe 1000 zombies total on the actual camera shots, and maybe inferred another few thousand. They might have killed 500 or even 1000 of those. So they have shown off a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the total zombie population JUST IN GEORGIA. Not to mention the other few hundred million undead roaming the rest of the U.S., and the 7 BILLION roaming the world. PLUS, the show can only afford to dress up so many people as zombies. Think of the hordes you saw in World War Z, make them slower but all around the forest you are in the middle of, with huge groups in the towns and massive hordes in the cities. And they are attracted to sound.
No one needs to drink water, what is dehydration?
The last episode showed them collecting water. Just because this isn't done in the style of the reality show "Naked and Afraid" doesn't mean they aren't considering it, just that the show isn't about how to survive, it is about the people and the human condition.
Vehicles are a rare unicorn but Bullets are infinite, no matter what you are doing or how long you have been doing it when you go to shoot that gun there will be bullets in it no need to worry about that.
Have you actually watched this show? Not only do they only use guns as a last resort because the sound attracts zombies, but they have always been hesitant to use their ammo. In the current episode they are very short on guns and ammo. The ONLY thing that has annoyed me here is that Rick's gun uses a rare kind of ammo yet he always has some.
Besides, this is Georgia, and while I don't live there, they are way more redneck there than up here in Montana where everyone I know has at least 500 rounds on hand right now. Heck I think I have a couple boxes of 50 rounds of 9mm in my car under a seat somewhere, lol. Some of my friends (more than I care to admit actually) have over 5000 rounds stocked. Even with the recent shortages in the stores, ammo is not exactly hard to come by if you know the right people. If most of the population died off, I could forage my immediate area for 2 hours and come up with 1000 rounds for my pistol quite easily.
If you are gonna complain about the ammo usage, point out how hard it is to hit the head of a moving target. They did go over that on one episode, but no matter how much you practice, it still takes rock solid skills to shoot a moving target with perfect accuracy.
Could go on, Watch your free show and STFU.
You could, but it might make you look like more of a jackass. The show has holes, no question. The CONCEPT of an apocalypse that wipes out all but a few people has a ton of holes. But this isn't a guide on what could happen and how exactly it would happen, it is an entertaining show set in a post-apocalyptic environment filled with undead and only a few living people who are trying to survive. And the story is more about how people would react in a situation like this than it is about what happened to get them there. If I want to punch more holes I will watch Mythbusters.
It IS a free show, and happens to be the most popular show on TV. And the writers have to keep that up, which isn't easy, especially when the number of holes is growing every episode. Their job is making their fans happy and keeping the ratings up. if they screw it up and piss off enough people by breaking the rules they have established in the story, the show will die. I like it so I don't want that to happen. So no, I won't STFU, I will continue to have conversations here and elsewhere about the show I happen to really enjoy. Why don't you go back to watching CSPAN where you can get your daily dose of reality and leave the fiction shows to those of us who enjoy them.
Have a GREAT day!