The Walking Dead, Survival Rule: Actions Have Consequences

Just because the walking dead take over the world in a zombie apocalypse doesn’t mean your actions DON’T have consequences. They ALWAYS do.

We have finished the first season of Tales of The Walking Dead, and the final episode was interesting, to say the least.

In that episode, we watched as Idalia and her boyfriend, Eric, after escaping some kind of harrowing situation (We don’t know what kind…initially), find sanctuary in an old house that Idalia has known about since well before the apocalypse. There, she and Eric meet La Dona Alma, the old medicine woman who’d lived there for as long as Idalia could remember. After Eric grows impatient with Alma’s refusal to let them stay at her house on a more permanent basis and lashes out at their host, she suffers a heart attack before smashing her head on the corner of her dining room table, killing her. This leads to the pair eventually believing they’re being haunted by the vengeful spirit of the medicine woman, along with the memories of the events which led to them coming to her home in the first place, including killing a group of survivors they had briefly joined up with. Eventually, their fear and guilt cause the two to begin to distrust one another before, finally, killing each other in the basement of the house.

…All of this started with one knee-jerk decision and caused things to slowly spiral out of control, ultimately costing Idalia and Eric their lives. It is for this reason that, for this week’s Survival Rule Of The Week, I’m going to focus on how bad decisions can reverberate back on you in a zombie apocalypse and why you need to avoid making them so that, should you find yourself in a zombie apocalypse, you don’t make decisions that you wind up regretting.