So, I love the Walking Dead for many reasons. One of those reasons is because it is so realistic, depite the unrealistic circumstances in which the book is based  upon. That all changed for me, when Abraham, Eugene, and Rosita were introduced. I just think the odds of those three, coming in, mere days after Team Grimes's fight with Woodbury, and the same night Rick, Michonne, and Carl arrived at the farm, are very, very slim. Especially meeting a bunch of people who have been through so much after the past week, and lost so many people, and changing everything for them.

So, yeah, it is something I probably shouldn't make a big fuss about, but still, I like the realistic sitiuations these people are put in, and this, just doesn't seem to believable. Does anyone feel the same way? DID anyone feel the same way at one point?

yeah that is pretty unrealistic but my beef is more with the fact that after the battle with the people from woodbury Rick has infection setting in. He then ends up in a house finds meds and takes a single dose and then passes out...then he wakes up in the morning fine. 1. What are the chances that he would find meds for the exact infection he had? 2. There is no way that after taking a single dose that he would be fine especially if he passed out from it. It takes weeks of using meds to get rid of an infection and to not cause a relapse. 3. If he was so bad that he passed out from the infection no amount of anitibiotics would have helped. He would have been to far gone and he should have died. I honestly think kirkman really dropped the ball on that one and was just trying to go for shock value.

I'd be fine with Rick dying.  I'm so invested with the other characters they could easily pull me through the book without Rick being there.  I'd just feel for Carl.  I think the stuff Rick drank was a pain killer and it just made him "feel" better.  Cough syrup, anyone?

You know, I never even look that deep into it I guess. It does seem unrealistic if you look at it like that but nah, never bothers me. The only time I ever got a little miffed is when I thought they killed michone, oh boy was I pissed! I was going to go on twd strike for a month maybe. LOL

at least until the next one came out...ha ha ha ha

It's as realistic as Michonne living on her own with her dead boyfriend and his dead brother chained to her.  Or the fact that the tank didn't run out of fuel after weeks of training.  It doesn't run on the same fuel as cars.  Then there's all the injuries everyone has suffered and healed from so quickly, like Andrea taking a bullet to the skull and having it heal in a week.  I think we are expected to suspened a certain level of reality with these comics.  All I know is I'm loving every moment of it. 

don't get me wrong I still love it.....it was just at that time everyone was arguing how kirkman does a great job if keeping reality in the comic but if you examine if closer you see that the emotions are grounded in reality but nothing else really is. Still a great book....you just have to accept that if he wrote everything in reality the book would probably suck.

Something else that has been debated on this subject is the shelf life of fuel.  Some say that after the decomposion rate of fuel would make any car that has been sitting this longs fuel unuseable at this point.

Mabye we shouldn't eat those horses after all :P

I think ninja has a good point.