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Originally Posted by Draft Dodger
my comparison to Lost is that if either of these events happened in real life, the very basics of survival - finding food, water, shelter - would be vitally important. Instead, it gets glossed over really quickly, unless it's needed to further a plot point...like sending them to Atlanta for "supplies"
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They are glossed over, but not ignored. They are glossed over because it doesn't make for interesting TV.
1. They had a scene where Shane drove up in the jeep with a bunch coolers full of water. He reminds the people to boil it. Did we need a scene with Shane heading down to the quarry, carefully filling the coolers, looking for zombies and then heading back?
2. They mentioned food supplies multitple times. The whole "frog catching" side story was about food. Darryl was out hunting and had found squirrels. Did we need a scene where Darryl was out tracking the deer? Setting the traps for the squirrels?
3. They have shelter. They have the tents and RVs. Do we need a scene showing them getting the tents? Putting them up?
They have also set up a perimeter around the tent with the tin cans on strings so that any walkers coming too close will make noise and they always have someone on top of the RV with bionoculars.
I think they've done an excellent job with making the very basics of survial constantly present, but not focusing on them other than to move the plot along or develop characters. That's just good writing and pacing.