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

The Walking Dead season premiere Maggie as a leader

1) Don’t Walk Into Unknown Places (Or LEAD PEOPLE Into Such Places)

I’m going to be blunt here: In this week’s episode of The Walking Dead, Maggie was a terrible leader (I’ll get to why later), and it is no more evident than the fact Maggie decided to casually stroll into a subway tunnel she knew nothing about and dragged her team in with her.

In hindsight, I’ll start by saying something pretty obvious: The DC Metro tunnels were a deathtrap. With the necropolis that was DC above them, Maggie and company could only go forward or back, meaning that if something came in behind them, or their way forward was blocked, they’d be trapped, and, wouldn’t you know it, both of those things happened!

I mean, yes, they had Negan with them, and he was familiar with the Metro. Still, as we saw in the final episode of last season, “Here’s Negan”, he wasn’t IN DC when the outbreak hit, so he had no way of knowing if the way was passable, he couldn’t have known about the fallen tunnel. Still, as a leader, Maggie should have known that was a possibility and maybe, tried to find another way to Meridian.

Instead, seemingly out of spite, she chose to march everyone into that tunnel and not even consider that possibility.

It shouldn’t have taken the group actually reaching a dead-end for Maggie to consider that possibility and exercise at least a little caution before marching into what could easily have been (And certainly seemed to become) a deathtrap.

Bottom line: Don’t get in over your head. If you’re walking into a place you don’t know, proceed with caution.