The Walking Dead Fear the Walking Dead General Discussion Thread

[Brother Jack]

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

No, better to leave that within the game. They're not from this continuity anyway.

 

[Docker2.0]

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.

The difference between FTWD and TWD is that in TWD, the zombies are decaying while in FTWD, most of them look normal so you don't know until someone is trying to bite you that something isn't right. Plus people don't know about this virus because the media is suppressing it. Once the word gets out about it, it's going to be to late.

 

[Marvolo]

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

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.

Cornell University did a study on how fast a zombie plague would spread in a city such as New York City or LA and they determined that NYC would fall in a couple days. More sparsely populated areas would have months to prepare.

A realistic” zombie outbreak, as Alemi calls it, both conforms to popular interpretations — and breaks them. For instance, densely populated regions are just about the worst place to be, a fact assumed in any number of zombie flicks. But unlike the movies, which often depict diffuse saturation and numerous locations simultaneously affected, a true outbreak wouldn’t work like that. It would take hours, days, months and even years to spread into every underpopulated nook and cranny of the United States.


"New York City would fall in a matter of days, but Ithaca, where I am — it would take weeks for the zombies to make their way up here,” Alemi said. “It would be a situation where you’re watching chaos on television, but where you are everything would remain unchanged.”

The first week of a hypothetical zombie outbreak near Los Angeles. (Courtesy of Alexander A. Alemi/Cornell University)

The first 48 hours of a hypothetical zombie outbreak near New York City. (Courtesy of Alexander A. Alemi/Cornell University)

The first week of a hypothetical zombie outbreak near Chicago. (Courtesy of Alexander A. Alemi/Cornell University)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/03/04/scientists-determine-the-nations-safest-places-to-ride-out-a-zombie-outbreak/

The interactive model that was created with his research and current disease research can be found at the below link:

http://mattbierbaum.github.io/zombies-usa/

You can alter the "Kill to bite ratio" and the "time for zombie to walk one mile".

 

[Marz69]

The difference between FTWD and TWD is that in TWD, the zombies are decaying while in FTWD, most of them look normal so you don't know until someone is trying to bite you that something isn't right. Plus people don't know about this virus because the media is suppressing it. Once the word gets out about it, it's going to be to late.

The gov seems to be hiding it too. The the bodies in the church were removed & I believe the gate was locked.

 

[Marz69]

I can totally see NYC being overrun real quick. It's really hard to avoid people. And if you're on a train then forget it. And trying to drive out of the city is difficult on a regular day, can't imagine what it would be like during a exodus.

 

[carrrnuttt]

Cornell University did a study on how fast a zombie plague would spread in a city such as New York City or LA and they determined that NYC would fall in a couple days. More sparsely populated areas would have months to prepare.



The interactive model that was created with his research and current disease research can be found at the below link:

http://mattbierbaum.github.io/zombies-usa/

You can alter the "Kill to bite ratio" and the "time for zombie to walk one mile".

These calculations are also running under the standard assumption that it's the zombie bites that spread the disease. Not the the TWD premise that the disease has spread on its own, and will affect most everyone as soon as they die, regardless of how they die.

 

[Broseph44]

Yeah we'd be ****ed here in NY.

 

[Marvolo]

These calculations are also running under the standard assumption that it's the zombie bites that spread the disease. Not the the TWD premise that the disease has spread on its own, and will affect most everyone as soon as they die, regardless of how they die.

The actual study used various disease transmission methods. The simulation was unfortunately limited to biting.

One thing I want to know is if some people are strictly carriers? Meaning they only carry the disease but dont show symptoms even if they come in contact with the contagion.

Some humans for instance can carry a contagion but it never makes them symptomatic or sick but when they are carrying it they can infect others. They just never show symptoms.

What if there are a few that were carriers (maybe a mutation that was locked off in the gene pool and it was switched on) but they didnt get sick. They just spread it, and made others sick. And maybe they cant even get sick and die if they are bitten.

Pure speculation.

 

[Leenie]

I live near Washington, D.C.

Residents in the DMV area would flat-out be screwed if a zombie outbreak happened, especially since my area has recently been considered to be the #1 worst place to drive in the United States. Nobody would be able to get out.

 

[Travesty]

I finally got around to watching it, and I liked it. It had a different vibe to it, as it was in LA, but I enjoyed the episode.

And I'm sure people have commented on how the actor playing Nick looks like Johnny Depp?

 

[Marz69]

I finally got around to watching it, and I liked it. It had a different vibe to it, as it was in LA, but I enjoyed the episode.

And I'm sure people have commented on how the actor playing Nick looks like Johnny Depp?

yes. The scene at the end where he and his mother/step dad walk out of the tunnel, he was walking all weird like. Reminded me of edward scissorhand

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/28/walking-dead-airline

The Walking Dead to show airline zombie attack in stand-alone special
Exclusive: Mysterious new character to be introduced via stand-alone content
BY JAMES HIBBERD

What if an episode of The Walking Dead was set on a passenger airliner before civilization had fallen?

That’s basically what AMC is planning in a highly unusual — if not totally unprecedented — new special that’s set during the time period of the hit drama’s companion series, Fear the Walking Dead.

Here’s the plan: EW has exclusively learned AMC is producing a half-hour special that will tell a stand-alone story following a group of passengers facing a walker attack on an airline while in flight. One character who survives that encounter will then join the cast of Fear the Walking Dead in season 2. So, yes: Zombies on a Plane.

Previously, AMC has had stand-alone The Walking Dead online web series, but the network never used such content to introduce a new character before they joined the show. The airline attack story will debut online, and will unfold this in chapters that will air during Walking Dead’s on-air telecasts. In other words: You’re watching The Walking Dead, AMC cuts to commercial break, then you get a chapter in the as-yet-untitled stand-alone airline attack drama.

Beyond that, details are scarce. We assume the flight is headed to Los Angeles, since that’s the setting of Fear (L.A. residents, insert your LAX-is-already-run-by-zombies joke here). Our lingering questions: What’s the stand-alone content called? Who is the new character being introduced and who will play them? (Presumably AMC will be reluctant to release that because that would then reveal which passenger survives.) How many pieces of this interstitial will there be, and across how many Walking Dead episodes will it air?

A plane has been used as a setting for a zombie outbreak before, most memorably during a sequence in the otherwise lackluster World War Z. There was also a 2007 movie called Flight of the Living Dead (which also carried the subtitle Outbreak on a Plane for those who didn’t find Flight of the Living Dead clear enough). It will be intriguing to see how TWD’s team add new twists into that trapped-group premise. Producers of the special content include Dave Erickson and Fear co-executive producer David Weiner.

The Walking Dead returns Oct. 11. Companion series Fear the Walking Dead recently premiered to a record 13.3 million viewers, including three days of DVR playback, making it the biggest series cable debut ever.

 

[ThePhantasm]

So basically World War Z?

 

[Sawyer]

But with better zombies.

 

[Thundercrack85]

This series does sort of raise a question why no one figured out until season 2 that simply dying of any cause caused people to turn into zombies.

 

[HighFivingMF]

This series does sort of raise a question why no one figured out until season 2 that simply dying of any cause caused people to turn into zombies.

It's not like nobody knew. Jenner knew, communications went down pretty quick after the outbreak based on the preview for the second episode. It's a known fact, just not one that's easy to spread anymore.

 

[John Locke]

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/28/walking-dead-airline

They should bring back the Lost cast for this. Have Jorge Garcia be the survivor, he was on Talking Dead recently.

 

[Sawyer]

Nah. Naveen Andrews. He would be, like, the second Indian guy in the TWD universe.

 

[Zatanna]

The previews for the second ep look good.

 

[Docker2.0]

Why would you walk in the middle of the road with earphones on?! Thinking about it gives me road rage!

 

[terry78]

Taking out the brother already, in pure TWD fashion.

 

[Docker2.0]

Yep! Dude couldn't make it past the first 2 episodes and he's bitten already.

 

[danoyse]

Omg, I just want to see walkers stuck in that kid’s bouncy house...

 

[Docker2.0]

Man! This cast is really unlikable!

 

[Docker2.0]

Man these are really whiny and annoying!