Quote Originally Posted by Tyndmyr View Post
I have the skill "Have watched a horror movie at some point in my life".
Point of order: I thought that it's fairly standard procedure that this type of horror story setting doesn't seem to include the kind of media it exemplifies (barring self-referential ones like Scream or Shaun of the Dead). I don't recall anybody in the show mentioning anything about zombie films or anything (although my memory could be failing me there).

The characters can't be genre savvy since the genre doesn't seem to exist.

It's like how the Star Wars franchise doesn't exist in the Darths & Droids universe.

Not to say that the Walking Dead characters don't fail simply by lacking common sense, but faulting survival horror characters for not knowing things about survival horror stories is a bit unfair.