The Walking Dead Fear the Walking Dead General Discussion Thread

[Thundercrack85]

I actually think this is pretty interesting. Most stories about zombies occur after the outbreak. It's neat to see it slowly unfold.

I think it would be even more interesting if it had a bunch of characters in different walks of life throughout the world, but a smaller scope isn't necessarily a bad thing.

 

[tzarinna]

My 4 year old son and a co-workers keep asking me how I like the new TWD show.

I like the first episode. I was expecting more from the 2nd episode. Better planning would have prevented a 2 week wait.

 

[Thundercrack85]

It is weird that they didn't try to procure weapons. That's the first thing I would do.

 

[Sawyer]

Travis' kid is the wooooooooorst.

 

[Primal Slayer]

They already killed off every.single. black person they introduced...lol

But I really enjoyed this episode a lot more then the first.

 

[Sawyer]

They already killed off every.single. black person they introduced...lol

Yeah they're not doing a terribly good job of disproving the accusations that have been leveled against TWD. Though, in regards to TWD original, I still find most of that whining idiotic. The only time it actually seemed deserved was when they killed off Oscar like five seconds after Tyreese showed up.

But yeah, three black guys (four if you include the guy Nick's GF was chowing down on) in the first two episodes? lol come on, guys.

 

[Thundercrack85]

The Walking Dead is like Highlander for black people.

 

[mocomic]

Ok since the principal kept talking about flu vaccine, is that the cause???

I think so.

 

[Primal Slayer]

It could explain why everyone is infected though there are plenty of people that don't take the flu vaccine and they havent done anything to show us some people don't turn so I think in the long run it wont be that.

 

[Obsidian Idea]

I'm enjoying the show so far. Good ep tonight.

I hope as the series progresses, we'll get to see them travel more throughout L.A. I would love to see iconic places like Rodeo Dr, Beverly Hills, Culver City overrun with walkers.

It'd be too cool if they'd film some scenes in South L.A.

On another note, does Kim Dickens acting come off a little flat to anybody else?

 

[Obsidian Idea]

It could explain why everyone is infected though there are plenty of people that don't take the flu vaccine and they havent done anything to show us some people don't turn so I think in the long run it wont be that.

They're really blurring the cause...it could be this flu...the shot...we know later from WD dead everyone is infected but don't turn until mortally wounded.

I wonder if the zombie plague mutated between FTWD and WD?

 

[X-Ray]

Travis' kid is the wooooooooorst.

Yeah he is. Makes the junkie kid look tolerable.

Travis: Leave that area and get your ass home, now!

Dumb ass kid: I can't. I'm part of the movement now! Blah blah...

Glad the ex-wife wasn't too much of a pain of ass. Jumped on the Travis train once she saw what was going on.

 

[Bruce Malone]

Would any of you recommend this show to someone who gave up on TWD after the first 3 1/2 seasons?

I just felt the show wasn't that good and absolutely paled in comparison to the comics it was based on so I just gave up.

I am a fan of the comics like I said and I like a lot of zombie media overall. Is this show just a retread so far of TWD or does it actually seem different and new and perhaps enjoyable to someone not watching the main show?

 

[Docker2.0]

Yeah he is. Makes the junkie kid look tolerable.

Travis: Leave that area and get your ass home, now!

Dumb ass kid: I can't. I'm part of the movement now! Blah blah...

Glad the ex-wife wasn't too much of a pain of ass. Jumped on the Travis train once she saw what was going on.

I was really hoping the zombies would get him. Dude really makes Karl likable because he's just that annoying. But then again, most of the cast is annoying. The only one that is decent is the dad from Training Day and the fat kid Tobias. He seems to be the only one with a brain. You go into a school, see a dude with blood all over his shirt, eyes a different color, growling, coming towards you but yet you want to engage in a conversation in the middle of anarchy when something is clearly wrong with people. Here's hoping that Tobias survives and lives a long life, though in real life, he'd be one of the first to go instead of the daughter's black bf. Black people have a tendency to have a 6th sense when it comes to danger and no way would one zombie be able to take out a house of them. Fat people tend to lack the stamina needed to escape a zombie which is why you don't see a lot of them on TWD. Even Zombieland addressed this. Plus picture yourself being really hungry and you saw this big fat walking cheeseburger.....tell me you wouldn't get a second wind to try and get it. I'd imagine a zombie being really hungry but when they see Tobias walking by, they can only picture him with mashed potatoes on the side.....that's some good eating!


I know it's pretty deep but dwell on that. That's what inside the ill mind of Docker2.0.

 

[Marz69]

Yeah he is. Makes the junkie kid look tolerable.

Travis: Leave that area and get your ass home, now!

Dumb ass kid: I can't. I'm part of the movement now! Blah blah...

Glad the ex-wife wasn't too much of a pain of ass. Jumped on the Travis train once she saw what was going on.

That was awful. The writers wanted to create angst with the characters. But they went about it all wrong & instead made them dumb or annoying.

The elements in ep 2 were really good: the protest & the family hiding out with this new group, the guy who turned at the school, the ending BUT they inserted some bad character decisions.

You want the mother to be attacked by her friend/collegue at school. Fine, but she didn't have to walk up to him with Tobias warning her. She should know better at this point after her encounter. They could have done a similar thing they did in ep 1 where the guy has his back turned. But instead he spins around and attacks her.

The guy's annoying son at the protest. Instead of him saying he wanted to stay, just have the phone die out.

It's nighttime & the daughter STILL doesn't know what's going on. She's looking out the window, running to the door & you know she wants to see her bf... but hey let the daughter possibly get herself in trouble instead of telling her the truth. And the mother running to the door trying to block her daughter from running out. DUMB.

Didn't realize the dude was from training day

 

[Evelisse]

I'd be really surprised if Travis made it out of these six episodes with both sons and his ex-wife and new lady. And I see most of the promo pics include pretty much just his new family.


Tobias is this shows Daryl/Michonne

 

[Docker2.0]

His ex wife was annoying as heck to though. Some people find the dumbest things to argue about at the worse time.

 

[HighFivingMF]

It's nighttime & the daughter STILL doesn't know what's going on. She's looking out the window, running to the door & you know she wants to see her bf... but hey let the daughter possibly get herself in trouble instead of telling her the truth. And the mother running to the door trying to block her daughter from running out. DUMB.

I think the plan was to tell her when they were too far for her to run back to the house with a zombie in it in a panic. But then the rest of their team got stuck and it got pushed back.

 

[squeekness]

Yeah he is. Makes the junkie kid look tolerable.

Travis: Leave that area and get your ass home, now!

Dumb ass kid: I can't. I'm part of the movement now! Blah blah...

Glad the ex-wife wasn't too much of a pain of ass. Jumped on the Travis train once she saw what was going on.

Well it seems to me that most of the kids don't listen to the parents much. Nobody seems to care about anyone but themselves. Though I thought Nick was good about apologizing and expressing sympathy to his sister for all the trouble he caused.

 

[chamber-music]

Taking out the brother already, in pure TWD fashion.

They killed three black dudes in less than two episodes (Artie, Matt & Calvin). Principle, Boyfriend and drug dealer guy.

They could set a Walking Dead show in Antarctica and a random black dude would die first

I like this tobias kid. But the guy's son who is at the protest is a annoying. I had no problem with anyone in ep 1, probably because it was mainly the druggie and his mom/step-dad. But today it has a bit too many teenage drama stuff and I generally don't like teenagers in TV shows

Chris being all social justice warrior and his first world problem daddy issues were irritating.

Tobias seems like the only dude with the right mindset.

I wonder why more folks don't seem to have caught on yet. Tobias got all his info off the internet. We saw footage being watched on the students phones last week. We live in an age in which incidents trend on twitter within hours. If people started returning from dying you know that would be all over social media.

Even if some people didn't believe it was real there would be enough weird stuff for people to realise something is going on.

lol at certain camera angles Tobias looks 42 yrs old

I thought in the first episode that the guy playing Tobias looks a bit old for a high school student

His ex wife was annoying as heck to though. Some people find the dumbest things to argue about at the worse time.

I don't know why Travis didn't just say there is pandemic, call our son?

If people know there is an emergency then they would be far more likely to take your call seriously.

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

Ok since the principal kept talking about flu vaccine, is that the cause???

I think so.

Jenny McCarthy? Is that you?

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

Tobias seems like the only dude with the right mindset.

I wonder why more folks don't seem to have caught on yet. Tobias got all his info off the internet. We saw footage being watched on the students phones last week. We live in an age in which incidents trend on twitter within hours. If people started returning from dying you know that would be all over social media.

Keep in mind the timeline of this show is from pre-TWD pilot, so since that was in current day at the time, we're assuming this show is set sometime in 2010. Hence Chris' old handheld cam. Twitter wasnt exactly what it is now five year ago. Not to mention, even today people still assume most things are fake to a certain point anyway, especially something as fantastical as the guy absorbing bullets and keeping coming at the cops.

Even if some people didn't believe it was real there would be enough weird stuff for people to realise something is going on.

I thought in the first episode that the guy playing Tobias looks a bit old for a high school student


I don't know why Travis didn't just say there is pandemic, call our son?

If people know there is an emergency then they would be far more likely to take your call seriously.

Keep in mind too as viewers we have the benefit of hindsight, we know where all of this is going. We can connect the dots easier since we basically have the answer key. These characters however do not, and don't exist in a world where zombie apocalypse fiction is a thing. Travis isnt just going to be able to conclude "pandemic." The guy is a high school lit teacher. They simply have no clue what's hitting them or how to deal with it yet. Even in last night's episode, after Madison bashed the principal's head in with a fire extinguisher, she still thinks it's going to be "over" at some point.

Rick Grimes woke up in the world after everything went down, and those that survived figured things out mostly by trial and error I'm assuming. That was passed on to him by Morgan, Shane, Jenner, and others. We (should) see these people figuring those things out as they go, and it's likely going to be a bloodbath in the process.

 

[Doctor Jones]

I watched the first episode and it was just so slow. I'm all for character development but the characters just aren't that written well or interesting aside from Nick, who I just see as the main character at this point. Really, really wonderfully performed by Dillane. I expect great future things out of him. He's something else.

But in terms of the episode, I do appreciate the idea of a slower burn creepier Romero like scenario and it is cool to consider just what the hell happened while Rick was in his coma, but this episode was just so plodding for it to be anything like that. There's no such thing as a bad idea in film or television, but this episode kind of helps make the claim that the beginning of the original show and the comics was so great and refreshing as to stick you right in the middle of it without any explanation or build up, dispensing of the typical "have to do's" of introducing something like this in things. In a sense, this could have been more fitting for the original show, yet the way that began I much prefer. But played out here while appreciated for its difference doesn't live up to the compelling idea. There could have been more creepiness and foreshadowing and suspense to things. Instead it was just 95% family drama which doesn't interest me. Though I am interested to find out how these people survive and adapt to Rick wake up world when we get to it. I like some of the ideas. Like seeing the "first" walkers and going from there and the build up to what it will become. That's creepy. But this didn't fulfill that.

 

[Man in the Suit]

Episode 2 was better than the first.

Would any of you recommend this show to someone who gave up on TWD after the first 3 1/2 seasons?

I just felt the show wasn't that good and absolutely paled in comparison to the comics it was based on so I just gave up.

I am a fan of the comics like I said and I like a lot of zombie media overall. Is this show just a retread so far of TWD or does it actually seem different and new and perhaps enjoyable to someone not watching the main show?

I love TWD and what Scott Gimple has done with it. It's a lot closer to the comics now. I like FTWD, but I don't think it's as good. But it's also only two episodes in.

 

[Marvolo]

I just found out that the sister in this show is Commander Lexa in The 100. I didnt recognize her without the war paint and blood and messy hair.