Connecting The Walking Dead: ‘Brave’
By Liam O'Leary
The Setting
The Walking Dead: World Beyond (Or, at least, it’s first episode) is set in Campus Colony, a community located not far from the city of Omaha, Nebraska. For those of us who’ve been watching The Walking Dead from the very beginning, this is like finding out one of our fan theories just got confirmed, because, way back in the season two midseason finale, aptly named “Nebraska”, Rick Grimes, Hershel Greene, and Glenn Rhee meet a pair of sketchy dudes from Philly named Dave and Tony.
While discussing what they’ve seen and where they’ve been, Dave and Tony mention how, as they drove down the United States’ eastern seaboard, they heard rumors of a trainyard in Montgomery, Alabama, that was hauling survivors to a safe zone in Nebraska, because of the state’s relatively low population, vast food resources, and relatively high volume of guns, all things which prove fairly useful if you want to survive a zombie apocalypse.
What World Beyond has done is prove that, whoever told Dave and Tony this was, if not right about the means of getting to this supposed safe zone, at least, right about its location.
Having said that, it does make you wonder: How in the hell did word of Omaha and Campus Colony reach all the way to the east coast quickly enough that Dave and Tony could hear it that early in the apocalypse, but, so late that it wouldn’t be broadcast over the Emergency Alert System when the outbreak got out of control?