So, yes, for the heroes, who were just outside of Atlanta, it’s a lot closer than Fort Benning which is in a whole different county.
But the real life locations are meaningless! Atlanta could very well be 600 miles in diameter in this universe!
That’s bothering me too. I’m not fond of the way the female characters are being used either.
I highly doubt the military has a specific plan* in place to deal with zombies. They’d need to improvise and cobble a plan together out of the epidemic and civil unrest plans. And if TWD follows the standard zombie movie cliche of taking place in a universe without zombie movies there isn’t even a fictional reference for what’s happening.
*Of course the video log seems to imply that the government knew about zombies at least a couple of months before the big outbreak.
Is this a whoosh? It was stated in the episode by the characters, who I’d assume you would classify as “in this universe” that Ft. Benning was 100-miles in the opposite direction.
MeanJoe - Who is really done with arguing this stupid point. Atlanta is in GA. The CDC is in Atlanta. Ft. Benning is in GA. The show is based in GA. It is pretty damn simple folks.
How is a Wiki link relevant to what I said?
Oh, ok. I was expecting a horse to die in a killing frost, but I guess that makes more sense.
They Eat Horses, Don’t They?
Sometimes, driving in Atlanta makes it feel like the city is 600 miles in diameter…
The CDC is in Atlanta. They established this in the first episode. The campsite is not far from Atlanta, some of the guys had to hoof it back from Atlanta just last week.
At least bad-science dude got to scream n-o-o-o-o-o-o! I don’t think we’ve had one of those since Merle’s brother shouted it on the rooftop. I hate the still-alive blond sister: I’m surprised there’s any scenery left on the set after all that chewing through two episodes. Next prediction of teh stoopid: they won’t scavenge any of the multitudes of military weapons and other gear lying around for the taking.
They reaffirmed that this week. Rick said (via his radio communication) that they were at a quarry just northwest of downtown, which is exactly where they were filming in real life – the Bellwood Quarry. So they are sticking pretty close to real-world geography. (Fake CDC building notwithstanding.)
From the quarry to downtown Atlanta is 4.5 miles.
From the quarry to Ft. Benning is 122 miles in real life, in the opposite direction from the CDC.
Now can we stop obsessing about this stuff? 
In their defense they were a bit occupied at the time. I don’t know if I’d stop to pick stuff up while I was on the look out for walkers to come bite me in the ass.
What about:
Boston
Seoul
Coney Island
San Francisco
Tokyo
Burbank
Death Valley
Toledo
Decatur
Seoul
Honolulu
?
I want a story about a group of tough, smart survivors managing to make it on the ragged edge, not a bunch of stumbling idiots who manage to luck their way into not dying yet. Going to the CDC, arriving at dusk, and then saying “welp, that didn’t work, I guess we’re all fucked now, anyone have any ideas?” is just painfully stupid. Someone should’ve told the sister to move, and if she wouldn’t, shot Amy in the head. This shit is serious. You don’t survive the apocalypse by being wishy wishy and just hoping shit will go your way.
Or, at least, if they’re dumb, they should get punished for it. Amy biting her sister would’ve been satisfying… although to be fair, I guess the Fish Fry Massacre is an example of this.
I’m not going to take that bet. I’m still waiting for the show to explain why they can’t use any of the five billion vehicles or guns lying around in Atlanta, and where all the gas and food went.
Y’know, they could go to some rural area, and hole up in some vacant house, and probably be entirely safe from zombies.
But that would make a pretty boring show, wouldn’t it?
“Big Brother: Zombie House!” That might be AWESOME!
I think what you all have to erae from your own minds is that we are familiar with zombies and post-apocalyptic scenarios, but they are not. To them this is all new, and getting their priorities sorted out in amongst blind panic and confusion is what the story has to sustain.
You can’t assume they are familiar with Dawn of the Dead and should act like you see in the movies. To them this is all new and strange and unprecedented, and at every turn is wholesale unending chaos.
Personally, if it was me, I’d throw logical behaviour out the window, curl up into a ball, and cry myself to death.
Yeah, that “100 miles in the other direction” quote sounds familiar, so I’m thinking I misunderstood. I set the DVR to record it tonight so I can see exactly what they said.