So...

So, can anyone explain to me why Rick and the gang didn't just decide to leave Alexandria with all their weapons and vehicles and search for a chilled new home after negan let them go instead of waiting for him to turn up and steal all their shit?

>they move somewhere else
>negan expands his borders by taking alexandria
>negans army finds them again
>they move again
>>negan expands his borders by taking wherever they went
eventually there's nowhere left to run to and then your tiny group of survivors look back upon an empire you can't hope to defeat

They have literally the entire world to chose from, and vehicles. Stop defending this shitty show.

All those pussies from Alexandria would be dead within a week of leaving probably

TWD is more aligned with the comics despite minor changes. Alexandria and the other factions are in the comics.
The show would be survival on the road until they found another settlement. They showed a bit of this before they found Alexandria. They could run into the saviors unless they traveled out of the state.
Fear The Walking Dead already is doing the survival on the road arc stuff and has more room to do that.

Negan's gang seems to only be a couple of hundred guys, they could drive 1000 miles away in 2 weeks easy. Their is literally no reason they had for staying.

>all this weak bait
It's a post-apocalyptic America. They cant just drive anywhere they want. They would run into hordes of walkers and empty gas stations everywhere.

They had been doing that for 4 seasons and surviving ok. Their armory seemed to have an automatic rifle for every person in alexandria 30+ people with a rifle + rpgs that can take out 20+ people at a time, that kind of firepower could destroy anything in their way.

Yeah but as said TWD is more aligned with the comic so they don't have freedom to like just leave Alexandria in the 2nd episode or fight the Saviors, or kill Negan right away. They can still kill Negan since they already deviated from the comics anyway.

When they turned up at alexandria and they all came in through the main gate, they could have killed negan and the people he came with if they used the rpg and automatic fire to kill all of them, this show is bullshit.

Rick wasnt expecting them to show up early. It would have had to had been a planned ambush. Plus half of whats left of the people in Alexandria can barely fight.

The road is a terribly dangerous place. Fortified settlements with big walls, running water, and electricity aren't exactly coming out the wazoo. They'd have to:
-Move dozens of people
-Have the vehicles and the ability to maintain those vehicles to caravan those dozens of people
-Be able to exterminate any horde of the undead that they encountered that might, perhaps, impede their path on the road
-Move randomly, without rhyme or reason, until they found a settlement; there's no telling how long they'd be on the road.
-IF they found a settlement, they'd have to work to fortify it (assuming it is not fortified), endow it with amenities (assuming it lacks water and power), exterminate any undead who dwell within its walls (assuming the undead have overrun whatever land they claim), or, if there are no walkers, then they would have to win the trust of whoever is currently occupying the space. That causes tension and violence, as we've already seen in Alexandria's case.
It's also imperative to Rick personally that he retrieve Darryl, one of the few people whom he can say he has known for more than one year, allow Maggie to seek medical assistance at the Hilltop, and find Carol and Morgan (neither of who are aware of the Negan situation at Alexandria).
>"Muh writing!"
Use your fucking brain or just don't watch the show. It's fiction. It's not always rational, but at least it's plausible in context.

stop replying to these shitpost "questions" every fucking time you fags.

There are too many factors that would stop running from being an option
>Number of vehicles/space compared to residents, food, ammunition etc.
>They have Daryl, Maggie is at Hilltop, Carol and Morgan at at Sanctuary, Tara and Heath are fuck knows where
>Where would they even go? There's no certainty how, when or if they'll find another place like Alexandria
>They are unsure to what extent Negan would pursue them, and if they'd be caught
>Rick probably couldn't convince everyone at Alexandria to just start packing their shit and jump into the unknown

>Discussing a TV show on /tv is shit posting

Fuck off

Cause he's not beta like you

They don't want to just ditch Daryl.

Still doesn't explain why they didn't hide at least half of the guns.

>Keep meticulous inventory of all guns in notebook they declined to throw away

>???

I think that comes down to Rick being so fucking scared of Negan that he didn't dare secretly defy him. He's been a lot more timid than comic Rick this season.

Negan showed up like half a week early, they didn't have time to prepare shit like that.

Knowing everything we know about rick, if he was that scared he would run because he is smart enough to know that when a cunt like negan says he's taking half, he means 'everything'

His fear has made him into a bitch, he's too scared to run or hide. He just wants it to all be over.

Although it was pretty stupid of him to assume that Negan wouldn't take all their guns.

>Back out on the road trying to survive
>More Walkers
>Could possibly run into someone WORSE than Negan

Stop being stupid OP.

It's been like 4 years since the outbreak happened and Negan still has only taken Northern Virginia and parts of DC. They would be fine if they just kept going north.

It hasn't even been two.

Negan would find them and kill more of Rick's best friends as punishment

"Get in loser; we're going to hilltop"

why does no one build an ied? you know neegans coming, you know hes bring a bunch of faggots with him, and you know they are coming in school buses and vans.

Hes never been to Alexandria, he would have no idea the 8-10 cars along side the entrance are full of explosives.

this, Negan and his crew would be so easy to ambush it doesn't matter how many guys they have it'd be like fish in a barrel once you've blown half them up and pinned down the rest, most soldiers would lose there shit in that situation let alone some undisciplined rednecks and bikers, even 5 marksman with snipers would be enough to disrupt Negans group enough for them to fuck off to saftey