The Walking Dead Fear the Walking Dead General Discussion Thread

[Tim_Riggins]

Sure doesn't feel at all like a cash-grab based on the pilot.

 

[Docker2.0]

Other than being a cash grab I still don't see the point of doing a prequel to TWD and showing how the zombie apocalypse/outbreak began. That's a plotline I never cared to explore. And I can fill in the blanks myself. However I still gave the pilot a chance out of curiousity. Eh I wasn't impressed with it. And didn't think it needed to be 90 minutes either. But I'm still giving the whole season a chance before I decide to jump ship or not on season 2.

 

[Leenie]

I thought the pilot was dull, and I don't like the characters so far.

I'll give this show a couple of more episodes to get interesting. If it doesn't, I'm not going to waste my time finishing the season.

 

[Docker2.0]

It's the freakin first episode! What's wrong with you people! Yes! I said you people! I don't have ESP but I can guarantee you that the second episode will speed things up big time.

 

[Leenie]

It's the freakin first episode! What's wrong with you people! Yes! I said you people! I don't have ESP but I can guarantee you that the second episode will speed things up big time.

I would have been more positive about the first episode if I wasn't so annoyingly bored with the characters.

To me, the family was something out of an ABC Family/CW series. Yaaawwwn.

 

[Docker2.0]

Eh, I agree with that, especially that crackhead son of theirs! But I guess I knew the first episode would be more about them living their lives and then the world slowly then quickly falls apart. I'm not that shocked at all that it went like it did and I liked it.

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

so, rick is in a coma right now, right? he definitely didn't just get into a coma, but perhaps he's been in the hospital for a while now?

 

[Elevator Man]

It's the freakin first episode! What's wrong with you people! Yes! I said you people! I don't have ESP but I can guarantee you that the second episode will speed things up big time.

 

[the dmg]

I was really hoping that the first episode was going to have a slow pace, so I'm glad that it did and thought it set up things really well. I enjoyed how they play on tropes of the zombie genre as well as if it was a hallucination that happened in the church.

Will watch the next episode for sure.

 

[Sithborg]

so, rick is in a coma right now, right? he definitely didn't just get into a coma, but perhaps he's been in the hospital for a while now?

Not necessarily. It could be a bit before.

 

[Sawyer]

I don't know, in both the scene where Shane and Rick get ready to take on those criminals and where Shane tells Lori about what's happened, we really have no indication that s*** has gone bad quite like we've seen on last night's episode of FTWD. I'm betting that Rick's already been shot.

 

[chamber-music]

I don't like junkie Tom Riddle.

The rest of the family aren't super engaging characters either. Hopefully when the s*** really starts to go down we will see them transform into more interesting people.

 

[Zantera]

I don't understand people complaining about lack of action in the pilot episode. As I see it, the main objectives of the first episode in a show is: 1. Introduce us to the characters and the playing field, who are the characters and how are they connected? 2. Introduce the main problem/conflict (the virus), and the pilot did just that.

FTWD has the chance to do something the original TWD failed with (or didn't even try to do), and that is showing us HOW the virus starts as a small problem and eventually grows to overrun a whole city. In TWD, Rick was out in a coma and wake up to an already messed up world, with FTWD, we have the potential to see the city break down completely over 6 episodes, and see the gradual decay. LA is a big city, and it doesn't just get overrun in a day.

Also, once the virus has actually taken over, there's only so many things you can do with the show. With TWD, my favorite parts have always been seeing the group trying to function and live a life in a broken down world. The walkers are really just filler, and personally I don't find them very interesting. They add tension, but there's only so many tricks you can do with zombies. Once you have the main group get overrun by zombies once, that's your main card. You can't really go up from there. FTWD has the potential to do something different, show us how the world just breaks down gradually.

 

[afan]

I always wondered how the zombie "virus" as presented in The Walking Dead could bring down civilization. Looking forward to the answer this show will provide. My suspicion is that rather than a direct cause, the virus is a catalyst; demonstrating that civilization is a very fragile balancing act, and that certain events that are not in and of themselves apocalyptic un-survivable disasters, can remove the thin veil of civility and trigger a large scale release of the dark side of humanity to rear it's ugly head.

 

[Evelisse]

I think some are setting themselves up for disappointment with regards to answers. I don't think we are getting some lab accident scene or anything like that. I think this will focus on the fall of society not the cause. I may be wrong, but I don't think so.

 

[jdogg willie]

Since FTWD and TWD are basically the same show but set in different time periods, would you like to see the survivors of L.A. meet up with the survivors of Atlanta at some point? Is it way too soon to be asking this question?

 

[Kane52630]

I really want to see them introduce Lee Everett and Clem somehow (on either show).

 

[Matt]

I really want to see them introduce Lee Everett and Clem somehow (on either show).

Lee is probably out of the question. The game is set in the TV-verse, meaning that Lee is already dead. Clem is possible.

 

[Perfect Cell]

Lee is probably out of the question. The game is set in the TV-verse, meaning that Lee is already dead. Clem is possible.

The Telltale games are set in the comic-verse: http://www.thewalkingdead.com/games/a-telltale-game-series/. Which means Lee and Clem could be adapted for the shows as they see fit.

 

[Docker2.0]

I really want to see them introduce Lee Everett and Clem somehow (on either show).

That would be so awesome! Just make them relocate to LA instead of Atlanta. I don't know why they didn't have Lee and Clementine in this show instead of that drug addict son. Man I can't stand that dude and dude's other whiny son. Must these shows always have some whiny kid on it? I can guarantee you Heroes Reborn will have one as well.

 

[Thundercrack85]

I do wonder realistically, how quickly this virus would spread.

 

[Schlosser85]

Personally I find it a little implausible something this slow could really completely overrun civilization.

Something fast like 28 Days Later, I can see, but it seems something like this would get stopped before it destroys everything.

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

Not necessarily. It could be a bit before.

Before he got into a coma? I doubt that.

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

Personally I find it a little implausible something this slow could really completely overrun civilization.

Something fast like 28 Days Later, I can see, but it seems something like this would get stopped before it destroys everything.

i think a whole lot of people are gonna get sick simultaneously which would mean perhaps influxes of zombies.

I did read somewhere that in twd hindered, the zombie to human ratio is 5,000 to 1

 

[Thundercrack85]

Personally I find it a little implausible something this slow could really completely overrun civilization.

Something fast like 28 Days Later, I can see, but it seems something like this would get stopped before it destroys everything.

Well, everyone is infected right? So, assuming that it's an airborne disease (which it seems to be), as soon as it gets widely spread, and people start dying (from natural causes, murder, car crashes, etc) pretty soon after they get up, and start biting / infecting other people.

In the world, 6,000 people die every hour (without a zombie apocalypse). In the US alone 6,000 die every day.

Probably more in the Weekend. But let's say 6,000 on a Monday. That's 6,000 people suddenly coming to life and biting the nearest people. That's going to spread pretty damn fast.