The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: The Leaders We Follow

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The final season of The Walking Dead has begun. If you subscribe to AMC+, you heard from showrunner Angela Kang that, for at least the first half of this season, class ideas will be a central theme (Not surprising considering the nature of The Commonwealth). However, for me, there was a different theme I picked up on, Leadership.

I feel like both parts of this week’s episode — The tunnel portion and the Commonwealth portion — in some way revolved around the idea of leadership and how disastrous things can go for people when the leadership they have is not as good as it should be.

As we’ve seen in The Walking Dead in previous seasons, good leaders, like Rick, can pull their people through the worst of times, even against nigh-insurmountable odds, but bad leaders can wind up walking their people straight into the mouth of hell. In this week’s episode, primarily with all the chaos and bad luck going on in Maggie, Daryl, Negan & company’s excursion into the DC Metro system, I think we saw more of the latter than of the former.

So, for this week’s Survival Rule Of The Week, I’ve decided to focus on incidents of poor leadership in this week’s episode of Walking Dead and why such things can prove so dangerous for you in a zombie apocalypse.