You don't think they searched the Sat Comm station, and the Slaughterhouse afterword? That seems like a pretty obvious thing they would do.

 

I really doubt they searched the slaughterhouse, as it was overrun with walkers. On the comm station? The group hasn't done "pretty obvious" things since the show started, there's no reason to think they would now, especially as their goal was to go get Maggie and Carol, not look around - case in point, they didn't notice Daryl's motorcycle in the open garage by the time they were leaving the station, nor did they notice its rider hiding out. How thorough of a search could they really have done? Motorcycles and men aren't exactly small hidden items that would be easy to miss in a casual search.

 

Overrun with the walkers that are relatively easy to kill at this point? And most of which are impaled and not going anywhere? Yeah, that'd send Rick and Co running for the hills.

I meant that they went back and searched the Comm Station after they rescued Carol and Maggie. Heath and Glenn found the armory, do you think they just went "Meh, we don't need these, or any food that could be here. Lets just head home."

 

Yep, I bet they did.

That's like asking, "do you think Rick really just SHOT the only prisoner they had rather than interrogating him for what other communities they might be in contact with, or what other safe houses he knows about that they could raid for supplies, or what other Saviors might be out there?" I mean who would do something so irresponsible?

From my TWD watching experience, I'd say assuming they did NOT do the sensible thing would be the safer bet.

 

Well that's just silly, but whatever.

Primo said he was Negan, and at that point, Rick had no reason to doubt him. Carol or Maggie didn't tell him about the "We are all Negan" comment by Molly, and they had one mission, which was to eliminate Negan and the Saviors.

If they want to find out about other groups, they can just ask Jesus or Gregory. If there are any other hostile groups out there in the vicinity, they'd probably tell Rick and Co of them too.

 

So Rick thinks he's got Negan - the Big Boss of the Saviors, and you think it would be silly to question him about their holdings, possessions, communities they know, etc? We have very different ideas of what is silly.

And why would Negan tell Gregory or Jesus *anything* about other groups they've met?

 

He was supposed to kill Negan, he thought he had him, so he killed him. Boom. Back to trading with the Hilltop.

They had already wiped out at least 30 other people who were a part of The Saviors, and even if there were a few more, with their leader dead, the group would probably fall apart, and start fighting with each other for control of the group, and end up killing each other. Threat gone.,

Did you not hear Jesus allude to different communities back in Knots Untie? He said it was his job to look for more settlements to trade with. Maggie asked him if that meant that there were more settlements around the area, to which Jesus responded by smiling and saying "You're world is about to get a whole lot bigger."

Do they need to spell it out?

 

Even if they believe there are another hostile group out there other than The Saviors, how are they supposed to know where they are? What more should they do to prepare other than get more weapons and ammunition, and rebuild the sniper tower.

The beat Jesus up comment was a joke, btw.

 

We just have to disagree here. If it was me, I would have wanted to know what "Negan" knew before executing him.

 

Well, for one thing you could ask Negan about other groups he's had run ins with, and where they are located.... wait, no you can't, you killed him.

 

Alright, agree to disagree :Grin:

 

They can ask The Hilltop, who would be more likely to cooperate.

 

Why should they waste their time and gasoline by patrolling different areas for groups that might not exist?

 

Yes, in other "gearing up" scenes there is the presence of conversations that broke up the "gearing" (thinking esp. Welcome to the Tombs and so many other prison episodes) or to illustrate madness (The Gov in I Ain't Judas).

 

They have no idea where any other groups are, besides The Hilltop. If they had a clue that there was a potentially hostile group somewhere near them, then sure, they should scout out that group, and see if they really are a threat. But they don't. The last hostile group was wiped out, at least they thought they were.

As for this whole reconnaissance thing, they could always start up their recruiting thing that Aaron, Eric and Daryl had. They'd weed out different people, see if they were safe enough to bring back to Alexandria. If they come across any bad people, then they could just inform Rick that there's a potentially dangerous group that they might want to keep their eyes on.

 

Jsus would be the key here. We need to see a scene where Rick grills Jesus about this "bigger world" and what it entails.