[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Radio

I can't tell if you're joking? He was hiding...as best he could in a one room shack.

It was just a random encounter with a hermit who has probably lived there for years, not just a little while.

There's a lot in that sequence if you look.

When they first pull off the road there's a walker coming up behind them and they pay no mind to it. In season 1 or 2 they would've lost their minds. They've obviously adapted to this new world and can recognize real threats.

There's 300+ million people in the US and most of them are zombies now. They are everywhere. What looked like a manageable situation in the beginning quickly became unmanageable.

They come across the hermit in a random encounter and nonchalantly kill him and feed him to walkers to escape. It shows a callousness that wasn't there before. It shows, to me anyways, a regression of humanity to a tribal state, if you're not in our tribe you're expendable, you can't be trusted.

Sometimes we need to look beyond the special effects to see the story.

Further to that, I would sugges the walkers would have no idea that buddy was in the shack. The dead dog smell might have acted as camo. We have seen it in the past. The smell or rotten flesh hangs on your clothes (I know this from experience). I would suggest buddy didn't wash too much so he most likely stank like dead dog. Easy peasy camo.