FEAR the Waking Dead

[A2HB]

I think the last episode was somewhat boring and from a storytelling standpoint, a step backwards compared to previous episodes. The first three episodes seemed to be building towards what we know is going to happen, and this last one didn't do much to advance that story line. No zombies in sight, the main characters just walking around arguing with each other and not really doing anything, overall I felt like I could have just skipped watching this entire episode and wouldn't have missed anything.

And I'm sorry but I'm really starting to get sick of Travis and his "everything's going to be ok soon" BS. Like dude why are you so dismissive of your son and what he's seeing? He didn't even bother looking at the kids camera before he was already like "there's nothing there, it's all in your head" Come on dude, your'e not going to any kind of job or doing anything that productive with your time other than jogging around, you telling me you can't be bothered to look at what your only son is trying to show you? Like I said I'm really starting to dislike that character, and if him getting bit is the only thing that makes him see what exactly is going on then I say let it happen. Sick and tired of his denial about the situation.

We'll see how this next one goes

 

[drainbamage]

And I'm sorry but I'm really starting to get sick of Travis and his "everything's going to be ok soon" BS. Like dude why are you so dismissive of your son and what he's seeing? He didn't even bother looking at the kids camera before he was already like "there's nothing there, it's all in your head" Come on dude, your'e not going to any kind of job or doing anything that productive with your time other than jogging around, you telling me you can't be bothered to look at what your only son is trying to show you? Like I said I'm really starting to dislike that character, and if him getting bit is the only thing that makes him see what exactly is going on then I say let it happen. Sick and tired of his denial about the situation.

That's kind of what I've been thinking about his character as well. In the teaser commercial/trailer things that played before the premiere, the actor was saying something like, "Travis is an average guy just trying to do the best he can in a bad situation." No, he's in denial. The house could be on fire, and he'd be sitting there in the living room saying, "hang on guys, it might go out on its own."

The mom (Madison?) still irritates me somewhat as well, but at least she had the sense to slap the floc out of her son when she found out about the morphine.

 

[MarkKF]

The mom (Madison?) still irritates me somewhat as well, but at least she had the sense to slap the floc out of her son when she found out about the morphine.

If that was her attitude going forward I might just start to like her. But I fear it was just a momentary snap she now regrets.

 

[nutty_gnome]

I think the last episode was somewhat boring and from a storytelling standpoint, a step backwards compared to previous episodes.

I think we had to take the step to martial law at some point. It wouldn't be realistic to assume it all went to hell overnight. the original series was able to not tell this part of the story because we 'jumped' 3 weeks or so with Rick in the hospital.

I too thought it was a bit dull and, even worse, somewhat confusing. If people can get out of the fence so easily, whats stopping the z's from getting in?

I hope the z's overrun the neighborhood next week so we can go visit the hospital, collect the dope head, kill off the red shirt of the week (Griselda?), and get started towards the desert.

 

[drainbamage]

I think we had to take the step to martial law at some point. It wouldn't be realistic to assume it all went to hell overnight. the original series was able to not tell this part of the story because we 'jumped' 3 weeks or so with Rick in the hospital.

I too thought it was a bit dull and, even worse, somewhat confusing. If people can get out of the fence so easily, whats stopping the z's from getting in?

I hope the z's overrun the neighborhood next week so we can go visit the hospital, collect the dope head, kill off the red shirt of the week (Griselda?), and get started towards the desert.

Did I hear the son correctly that 9 days had passed between the arrival of the army and this week's episode? Doesn't that kind of defeat the premise of going into detail on the events prior to TWD? If Rick was in the coma for 2-3 weeks, FTWD should be nearly caught up to that point by now.

 

[Zuljin]

So. Are they taking the infirm to an infirmary or a disposal site? Is that the building with the flashing light and then the gunfire? Seems kind of dumb to do that in sight of the town.

 

[adamranders]

So not one zombie the entire episode? WTF? This show needs to sort itself out, not looking good for a second season.

 

[ffaoe]

So not one zombie the entire episode? WTF? This show needs to sort itself out, not looking good for a second season.

Hate to break the news, but they already green-lighted a second season.
http://uproxx.com/tv/2015/08/fear-the-walking-dead-renewed-for-second-season/

 

[lupulinaddict]

So. Are they taking the infirm to an infirmary or a disposal site? Is that the building with the flashing light and then the gunfire? Seems kind of dumb to do that in sight of the town.

I thought the building with the light was a survivor. I took it as the military killed off everyone outside the gates to stop the infection from spreading. The general mentioned, "you guys are the lucky ones." Madison said some of the people shot looked like they had been sick and some didn't. I thought that light person had managed to escape and was trying to communicate. Based on the previews I am assuming they are taking and using the infirm as test subjects, but I'm usually wrong going off of the previews.

 

[ffaoe]

Now that's what an episode should look like. A much better episode that in my opinion was 10X better than any previous episode.

 

[BBQB]

Who are they killing humanely at 0900?

 

[ffaoe]

Who are they killing humanely at 0900?

Good question. It is certainly going to be the ones at the school where they are detaining all those people. It may even include the people in the fenced "safe zones". We shall see. Whatever happens, the military is going to get out of there and call LA a total loss.

 

[m_c_zero]

What about the arena full of zombies? Think the guy just had to see for himself or is he planning on letting them out?

 

[agrazela]

What about the arena full of zombies? Think the guy just had to see for himself or is he planning on letting them out?

I know he'd seen the riots, but had he seen more than one or two walkers with his own eyes? I think he just had to see for himself. I read his reaction to that as, "wow, I guess there really IS a reason for martial law this time."


Hopefully in the next (last of this season, right?) episode, Travis will finally realize that this truly is the apocalypse, the gubmint ain't gonna be his nanny no more, and he's going to have to learn to take care of his own. Will he get over his gun-o-phobia?

Be interesting to see what the suave guy in the jail cell wants with drugboy.

I wonder when that high school kid from the first few episodes will re-appear.

That daughter cleans up nice...she's 18, right?

That son of Travis' is either going to get killed, get someone killed, or make a 180 degree surprise turnaround and become a hero. I know which outcome I'm voting for.


So at this point, I could maybe see another 8-episode season, spanning a couple more weeks to a month of in-show time, where they get everybody together, loot some guns, gas and supplies, and caravan the heck out of town...but after that, won't this show essentially become "Walking Dead West?" How could they drag out the "pre-Walking Dead" idea more than another season (or two at most?)

Maybe they grab a boat and head out to Catalina Island and set up a "Survivor"-style dystopian fortress?

 

[Zuljin]

It sounded like the military was going to kill everyone. I don't get that. I get killing off the sick and injured, as cold hearted as that is, but why the whole neighborhood of healthy folks? Are they trying to create a new society of government loyalists? Do they not have the supplies to defend everyone, so they want to stop potential zombies from happening?

 

[m_c_zero]

I could maybe see another 8-episode season, spanning a couple more weeks to a month of in-show time, where they get everybody together, loot some guns, gas and supplies, and caravan the heck out of town...but after that, won't this show essentially become "Walking Dead West?"

Right?

 

[nutty_gnome]

..but after that, won't this show essentially become "Walking Dead West?" How could they drag out the "pre-Walking Dead" idea more than another season (or two at most?)

I guess that is why they all haven't even left the driveway together yet. Maybe next season they will make it as far as the next neighborhood over. Oh the horrors they will find; - A 7-11 instead of a Circle-K - oh my!

If we hadn't already been indoctrinated by the TWD, this version would be cancelled after a single failed season.

 

[Zuljin]

I guess that is why they all haven't even left the driveway together yet. Maybe next season they will make it as far as the next neighborhood over. Oh the horrors they will find; - A 7-11 instead of a Circle-K - oh my!

If we hadn't already been indoctrinated by the TWD, this version would be cancelled after a single failed season.

This!

And I live in 7-11 country.

 

[slym2none]

I took it to mean the military would kill everyone behind the fence. Everyone.

Also, it has been mentioned that, at least timeline-wise, there will be a "crossover" of sorts with the regular TWD show. I am guessing somewhere near the end of that show's season1 or season 2.

 

[agrazela]

...

 

[MarkKF]

So where is this place with million dollar views and multi million dollar homes that's separated from the Pacific Ocean by concrete rubble and graffiti? So strange it must be true.

 

[agrazela]

So where is this place with million dollar views and multi million dollar homes that's separated from the Pacific Ocean by concrete rubble and graffiti? So strange it must be true.

Looked like eroded cliffside to me, not rubble. And that wasn't graffiti, it was "art"!

I'd say that was on balance a darned cool episode. It had walker hordes, plenty of head shots, etc. And a second-tier character death. And Travis seems to finally have found a pair.

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So how did the suave, wealthy, ocean-front living Strand wind up in the same internment camp with all the middle-class suburbanites?

And what now, a zombie/dystopia/pirate show on the high seas? "Walker Island?" "Walker World?"

 

[m_c_zero]

Thought it was a pretty good season all-in-all. Looking forward to see where they are going to take it next season. Looking even more forward to the return of TWD! Hopefully Crazy Rick makes his triumphant return.

 

[MarkKF]

May have said this before but I was hoping this season would be like 24 except with each episode representing one day from the outbreak. With the only government, police, public health response be towards the infected. Meanwhile the public either remains oblivious or is left to fend for themselves.

 

[slym2none]

So where is this place with million dollar views and multi million dollar homes that's separated from the Pacific Ocean by concrete rubble and graffiti? So strange it must be true.

In the same fictional world where the dead come back to life.

 

[MarkKF]

Actually it's areal place. The sunken city in San Pedro!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-teenage-party-spot-decades-long-closure.html

 

[slym2none]

So... you asked a question you already knew the answer to?

 

[MarkKF]

No. I spent last night researching on the web and today shared what I found.

 

[slym2none]

Ah.

 

[Zuljin]

But the water between them and the boat is infested with ZOMBIE JELLYFISH!