Walking Dead

Jordo!

They really don't fit the whole TWD universe at all. They are kind of like the feral kids in the original Mad Max movies -- like first generation post-apocalypse people who have a totally different set of norms and ideas about the world.

Are they a community of people who were homeless/houseless/refugees before society collapsed? That would explain why they're an extra level of disconnected from survivors who were more a part of "regular" society.

But, if so, you'd figure they'd have been among the first to get eaten just because they'd already have no real shelter from the weather let alone a zombie outbreak.

In any case, they really need a more coherent backstory. They just seem like they were dropped in from some other story entirely.

I can only think of one other thing, and if this is the answer, its a bad one.

The Garbage People could eventually become , but that group only talks and acts oddly because .

Otherwise, really live more like indigent pre-colonial invasion people (a stark contrast to Rick and company who are working their way to living a pre-industrial revolution/post colonialism settler kind of life), albeit filtered through a zombie outbreak.

I dunno. The fact that their group feels really forced into the TWD universe and they ended up serving as just a needless plot device (i.e., the ol' double-cross), I'm kind of hoping they just get wiped out next season.

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