The Walking Dead survival rule of the week: Appearances are deceiving

The Walking Dead, not everything is as it seems

When dealing with The Walking Dead, you have to realize that appearances of things (LOTS of things) can often be VERY deceiving.

This week’s episode of The Walking Dead was a fun one. I don’t mean that the rest of this season wasn’t fun, but I found this one especially fun mainly because so much of it focused on surprises and characters hiding just under someone else’s nose.

On the one hand, we had Connie and Virgil discover that the house they hid in was infested with a bunch of feral, cannibalistic weirdos, which, for nearly the first half of the episode, we didn’t even know existed.

On the other hand, we had both Daryl, who is trying his best to be a double-agent inside The Reapers, keeping Maggie’s team alive while making Pope and his subordinates think he’s helping them. Maggie’s team, who were trying to stay one step ahead of the Reapers, sent to wipe them out, all the while literally being under the nose of their most dogged pursuer, Carver.

Because of all of this, it seemed only natural to me that for this week’s The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week, I focus on how, in a zombie apocalypse, things aren’t always as they seem. Threats can come at you in all sorts of ways you may not have thought of before the outbreak, and if you want to survive, you need to learn to be wary of these threats, or else they’ll catch you without you ever even knowing they were there.