But moving on from there now that they are on the farm why are they not fortifying the place? Gathering supplies from the local town? Hell when they were in the bar for Herschel I would have grabbed all the alcohol I could for disinfecting wounds or trade & barter goods. On their many forays into this town the local hardware store should have been looted for goods, sporting goods stores for winter clothing, ammunition, weapons, arrows, crossbows, concentrated food stuffs, etc.....
At the risk of Likki Nikki reminding me this is the reason I don't sleep at night, and administering a spanking, (the spanking wouldn't be all bad though.
) I must say I agree completely!
I'm fully on-board with the whole willing suspension of disbelief and what not, but they could have thrown a "fix" or two into the writing. Maybe say the only bridge into town was blown up by the army to try and contain shit so going to and from is much harder, but the bar is on the outskirts before the bridge so it's still accessible. Or, have the town so horribly overrun by zombies that going in there is a near-death sentence. It just seemed kinda lazy on part of the writers to ignore this stuff, that's all!
I would have moved into the bar and made that my home-base. It worked okay in Shaun of the Dead after all! LOL There are also some pretty glaring plot holes throughout like when Rick and Shane cut their fingers with knives used to kill zombies only shortly before, thus exposing them to infection. Why didn't he go to town on the zombies with the .50 Cal machine gun, why didn't he drive the tank. Better yet, how the fuck did the guy inside the tank get infected in the first place? It's a freaking tank! I don't think the zombies could have clawed through the many inches of reinforced steel. Okay, I'm going to go outside now before I get too worked up!
LOL