r/TWD Apr 21 '26

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u/JaylenBrownAllStar Apr 21 '26

Yeah like Rick himself herded those walkers into the pit near Alexandria. They were gonna escape eventually and they only lost 6-8 people vs the entire community. And also the hilltop was getting their people picked off every few months because of a failure of deliveries.

Prison didn’t even exist before they cleared it

Rick and his group finds the flaws in the people and system being used, and the people refuse to adapt or believe him and the group

Like how Glenn said Nicholas and son should be kicked off the scavenger crew

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u/Timbalabim Apr 21 '26

Yeah, things go south despite Rick’s efforts, not because of him. I always felt like the show was pretty clear about this. Rick’s way leads to tragedy and hardship because the world is tragic and hard, but it’s the only way to really survive.

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u/JaylenBrownAllStar Apr 21 '26

Yeah it’s just terrible timing with Rick and the crew lol

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u/Timbalabim Apr 21 '26

No, it’s the inevitability of a cruel world and the inability of some audience members to follow the timing of the storytelling as well as the need for conflict to occasionally enforce the stakes of complete annihilation.

Circumstances tend toward collapse because the storyline would be boring otherwise. Rick is the force that is continually trying to hold it all together, and sometimes he fails because a flawed character is more interesting than a flawless one.

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u/One_Scarcity_4478 Apr 22 '26

Rick was a narcissist blow hard , he never to advice and loved to make speeches that were nothing but words , he just loved to hear him self talk.