Eire: I too would be mistrustful of strangers, but then again, given the current situation w the Gov...I'd be recruiting. Statistically speaking the more targets you have around you, the less likely you are to get shot. Particularly when your new ally is wears orange and yelling a lot.
Cyrus: True. But this whole show demands a healthy suspension of disbelief. It's like natural selection stopped working: idiot hitch-hikers, and the crew stuck on the bridge last week...you'd think they'd have gotten munched long before now.
I wish I could take my own advice. I like the show, I look forward to watching it, and it occasionally exceeds expectations: if only because those expectations are already pretty low! I wish I weren't so detail oriented, too. Naturally, we all put ourselves in the situation and imagine what we'd be doing differently. I definitely enjoyed seeing Morgan's setup, that was redeeming and more in line with what I think I'd do (given half a chance to survive the first few weeks), even if he did spend several minutes lashing a corpse to a gurney...with his back to two still-flailing, slightly impaled walkers.