See, my theory is that there is some governor type, maniacal community leader who captured a ton of people when the world turned to shit. Every now and then, this leader (for whatever nefarious reason) releases one of these woefully unprepared captives.

This is the only way I can wrap my mind around the idea that there are lone survivors wandering around this deep into the situation who have no idea how to deal with zombies.

 

I don't know. I can see someone's running out of supplies and either relocating altogether or heading down the road to find more. I can't, though, see them just grabbing a backpack and wandering through the woods, waiting to be eaten. Red Poncho Dude, they wanted us to think was LIVING in the wild and knew what he was doing, but think about other lone survivors, like Glasses Dude, that Rick wouldn't let Carl help - he was just myopically wandering in the forest until he got surrounded.

 

If Morgan does not have good reflex and can use the stick well, he would end up like the red poncho guy.

 

If he was, I'd have expected them to say something like, "Hey, there's blind Mike. Let's help him. (or, "I never liked him, anyway.")"

As it occurred, it was pretty clear they'd never seen him before. I like to amuse myself by imagining that he was a scientist who just successfully formulated a zombie virus vaccine and now it's just lying in the woods.

 

I've always wondered about these people as well. What are they doing that they are out in this world by themselves without any weapons of sorts? doesn't make sense that this far into the Apocalypse we would see this many ill prepared people meeting their demise.

 

I could see a group of 1 by choice.. Now I only have to feed and take care of myself. I don't have to make moral decisions about other people's lives or watch them die.
Or a group of 1 by accident.. You've become separated from your group because of a herd, invaders, bad weather or illness in the group. That could drive you out.

My problem was the red poncho. The guy was great with living outdoors, Daryl said so. But why would you wear a red poncho that everyone and their brother could see for miles?

 

Kinda reminds me of the orange backpack dude, minus the camping gear clacking.

 

it is annoying how they have survived all this time and now they seem to die feet away from our group. How did one walker with a rope around his neck kill a guy few hundred yards from the ASZ and yet Father Gabriel of all people was able to take him down.

 

People are dying almost weekly on the show in the group of people that the show centers on. Not sure why it would be any different with other groups of people. A solo person you see now dead could have been a non-solo person a week earlier. Daryl and Aaron are out specifically looking for more people to bring to Alexandria as a major theme to the show right now... they just came across some solo black dude waking around with a staff...there's people out there...

 

Isn't that the thing though. Red poncho guy wasn't brought down by walkers. You saw how friendly the wolves were when they first encountered Morgan, with the exception of having a gun pointed at him, but RPG might have thought he finally found other survivors to hang with...we have no idea what they said to him to get him to go with them...OR they might have just forced him to go along after they intercepted him. At any rate I'm surprised these isolated cases haven't learned they have to be as cautious of the living as they have to with the dead.

 

Red Poncho Guy survived in a neighboring ASZ and was just out stretching his legs ...hey he lived a good life

 

I imagine that most of the people wandering around by themselves were like Bob. They were a part of a group, and they are the only survivor left.

 

Would it really be that hard to survive on your own? If you can deal with walkers and survival, all you'd have to do is avoid people. I mean, it couldn't be impossible to avoid other humans, there aren't that many left. Maybe this guy hasn't seen another living human in so many months that he's gotten too comfortable with being alone? Or he thinks there are no more survivors left, came across a perfectly good poncho and decided to use it. It's not like walkers can see colour.
Of course, I don't know a thing about survival, I have no idea how hard it'd be to survive on your own.

 

^ Morgan survived.

 

Didn't Deanna or someone from ASZ say something about how the area was largely cleared of people before the zombie apocalypse? That means it would theoretically be easier to survive on one's own here than somewhere more densely populated, but the gang have still had huge problems on incredibly unsafe supply runs in the area (like the ill-fated trip with Noah) and it's been what, two years?

 

^ Governor survived.

He was walking around and surviving by simply stepping to the left a half step and letting the walkers fall down...

 

^ no the Guv did not survive