"The Walking Dead" could be better, huh?

1. There needs to be more talk about the best place to hide from zombies! Look, I live in a world that is not currently populated by flesh eating zombies and I seem to spend more time than the Walking Dead cast contemplating the best survival strategies to avoid zombies — as both my wife and even readers of the Corner can attest. If you actually lived in such a world, this would become something of an abiding obsession, don’t you think? People would argue about the comparative merits of boats versus arctic refuges versus sealed-off penthouse apartments all the time!

2. A little more concern about blood spray. The characters know that zombism is spread by infection. But no one seems overly concerned by the fact that they’re constantly getting zombie blood, brains, and viscera on their faces and bodies. There was one throwaway line last season cautioning people to keep the zombie guts off their faces, and then the same character proceeded to wear zombie innards like a suit (in order to throw undead predators off the scent). Earlier this season one of the characters had a really nasty open wound on his arm, but then proceeded to conceal himself under a dead zombie. One character uses a crossbow to kill zombies, re-using the bolts each time. He also uses it to hunt dear and squirrels. Not once have I heard anyone ask, “Hey do you wash your bolts/arrows before you shoot our dinner?”