The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: The Littlest Things

If you’ve been following me long enough, you know that, among other things, I write a series of articles called Things To Note, wherein I go back over each episode of The Walking Dead (Or Fear, or World Beyond, whatever the case may be), and find all the details, clues, hints, references, and trivia — In short: The little things.

Normally, I do this because I often wonder if these things will become important later on in the series, as such things frequently have. However, this week, with the scope of the episode so narrowed — Focusing almost entirely on the separate misadventures of Daryl and Carol the day after their argument in their previous episode, “Find Me,” — I thought it would be important to dedicate this week’s Things To Note on the importance of the things we tend to overlook in the zombie apocalypse, the things that are, by themselves, relatively unimportant, but, when thrown at you in a survival situation, can mean the difference between success and failure, life and death.

In this week’s Walking Dead, Carol and Daryl’s lives were turned upside down by LITERAL little things. In a zombie apocalypse, ignore them at your peril.

Hopefully, once we’re through here, you’ll come to appreciate the little things around you and learn to stay on top of them as best you can so that you can avoid having them become the things that turn around and bite you or lead to a zombie turning around and biting you.