Tales of the Walking Dead Survival Rule: The Unlikeliest Things

Tales of the Walking Dead – Blair/Gina

Sometimes, in the face of a zombie apocalypse, even people you hate can become friends. 

The core of the story of this week’s episode of Tales of The Walking Dead revolved around the relationship between Gina and her overbearing boss, Blair, and how, through repeatedly re-experiencing their deaths, came to realize their mistakes in how they’d behaved toward one another, and the real sources of those behaviors, eventually becoming friends, working together to try to reach Gina’s family, and saving a crowd of trapped motorists from an oncoming herd of walkers.

What’s important about this is the idea that, in a zombie apocalypse, even people you cannot stand, people you might think you’d never get along with or even consider trying to get along with, can not simply become potential allies but even friends.

Why might this be? Simple, really: In the face of a shared grisly death, most people may, even if only temporarily, put aside their differences to defeat the shared threat. Granted, this may not always be the case, and some people (As I mentioned last week) may become total psychos once the apocalypse sets in, but, for the most part, people’s beefs in the modern world are rarely so deeply rooted that they couldn’t put them to bed when confronted with indiscriminate fleshing-eating monsters. Such a situation does wonders for making people realize how petty some of their interpersonal conflicts are in the grand scheme of things.

This is why it’s important to not be so quick to judge people in the zombie apocalypse because you never know when that coworker you don’t like might save you from a zombie or that jerk in your math class rallies everyone to mount a defense of the classroom against an encroaching gang of the dead. Just because you may not like someone doesn’t mean they’re inherently bad or that they won’t be changed by the threat of annihilation.