Hell, yes, they should've! I keep yelling at the TV, "Where was your Black & Gold Plan?"
None of them have answered me, yet.
“Hell, yes, they should’ve! I keep yelling at the TV”
Isn’t that what this whole show is about? Yelling at the TV because of the continuous stupidity of what’s left of the human race, particularly Rick’s bunch?
For example, why can nobody in Rick’s group drive anything more complicated than a Volvo station wagon? Why not scrape out a dry moat around the prison with a D-9? The zombies would have just all walked into the pit and never made it to the fence. Pit fills up? Scrape ‘em out again with the D-9.
Why not go on a supply run to a nearby armory and fetch all the ammo and automatic weapons you could possibly ever need? After all, Bonnie and Clyde did that all the time.
And while you’re at the armory, get a few humvees, 6x6 trucks, some diesel tanker trucks, form a convoy and head north right before winter when the zombies all turn into zobiecicles.
Ah, well, stupid show is as stupid show does.
The success of the entire zombie genre, all of it, is based on the viewer's reaction to the stupidity of the human characters. Every single movie or tv show gets you to think about what you would do in that situation, and makes the characters so stupid that they make you look like a genious by comparison. This is how you enjoy the show.