(12-02-2013 11:26 AM)MichealBond Wrote:  I don't think that the show is showing us the "best of the best" survivors. It's simply showing a group of survivors.

Survival of the fittest. You'd assume if the rest of the world can't survive that these people left at this point a year or two later would be the fittest and not just relying on luck now. Yet they don't even exhibit the most rational and core judgment in many cases like guarding their young when known threats are in the area. You think even some stupid ape like humanoid a million years ago living in Africa would let their young hang out on the ground with thousands of loins roaming the area. It's essentially the same thing.

Quote:Long associated with the horror genre has been the lack of logical thought during traumatic and tense scenarios. It was dumb for the Mom to let the girl play so far away from her by the river bank. But it's actually pretty realistic when you think about it. People still leave their young children and babies in hot cars while they just "go in for a minute" into a store while the child suffers and dies. People are still shooting themselves or others while they are cleaning guns in their homes. People are still burning down their homes because they decided to put water on a grease fire. Humans are still doing dumb things after thousands of years on Earth. They would continue to do dumb things while a ZA has taken over the globe.

Yep, and it's crass to say but their is a reason they don't survive and pass those genes down to the next generation and are essentially weeded out. Certainly some things are out of your hands but at some point the smartest and best adapted would be the ones still around and if these are truly the smartest, good luck to the human race.