Did anyone watch "Spacefiller...(I mean) Fear of The Walking Dead" last night. It really took about 70 out of the 90 minutes of the show to get going. Hopefully next week will be interesting. Walking Dead never gave us a macro view of the apocalypse but I think this show will.
Anyone watch "Fear of the Walking Dead"?
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I'll give it one more week, not on its own merit but because I like Walking Dead so much.
Go for it but I couldn't care less about the characters and add to that no zombies and it is a pass for me. I will still keep watching the Walking Dead,but I wouldn't care if this new show got cancelled after one season.
Not really since it takes place in the west coast.
Also the writers have already said that the show will be a slow burn... compared to the Walking Dead, which itself is slow pace, so this show will be REALLY, REALLY slow.
Keep watching by all means, but don't hold your breath for the action to ever pick up.
Its the timeframe of when Rick was in the hospital, obviously nothing to do with Rick and that group. But it will show the beginning of the virus and its affects. When the Walking Dead started and Rick woke up, the virus was known and even how to deal with the walkers was known. This series will show how it progressed to the time the Walking Dead started.
Not really so much, at least not on a detailed level.
TWD opens in the Atlanta area. The initial days of a zombie infection would very quickly evolve into "What's that?" "Hell, I dunno... shoot it!"
The writers have already said that a major plot element in FTWD will be rooted in L.A. culture.
"What's that?"
"Like... I totally don't know, but I bet if we offer to buy it a latte, everything will be cool."
A meandering start to the series but it is a pilot so they are entitled to a bit of a set up. I will say that one of the many things that makes WD so intriguing is that it skipped the entire period in which society broke down exponentially. I guess Fear the Walking Dead is going to cover that period; complete with misbehaving teenagers representing a majority of the population. I hope that they show who Patient Zero is and explain how the virus spreads without being bitten.
I do like the actress cast as Madison. She's been very good in every thing she's been in lately (Gone Girl, House of Cards). My bet is that she becomes the female Rick Grimes.
I do like the actress cast as Madison. She's been very good in every thing she's been in lately (Gone Girl, House of Cards). My bet is that she becomes the female Rick Grimes.
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Exactly, it shows when it starts. Like I said the walking dead when Rick came to, the walkers were known, even that it required a head shot. In Fear we will see how it started as far as people seeing walkers for the first time and their reactions/dealing with.
Again I know its west coast not the east coast.
If they are consistent with their timeline, things can't be drawn out forever. Rick was in his coma for two months max, and the world went to Hell in the meantime. So figure they've got around a month tops in Fear before things are headed over the cliff. If each episode covers 2-3 days of real time, things will be a lot crazier by the end of this six episode run.
Re: showing what happened while Rick was in a coma: in a national sense, yes, it will show the same time frame as what went down around Atlanta. Will the characters cross over from the original series? Highly doubtful, unless they show someone flying out of LA to get back with family/friends in Atlanta before things go boom.
Was last night slow? Yes. Am I in for the duration of this six episode run? Almost definitely. I expect the pace to pick up some next week as the walkers are starting to appear.
Unfortunately, this seems to suffer the same good concept, poor storytelling that TWD suffers from. So many WTFs in the episode. I can't imagine how all this setup with the family issues is going to really matter in a show that should be focusing on the anarchy and panic that will develop when people figure out what is going on. My prediction is that part of the story will be that initially the drug subculture will be more attuned to what's going on, and what's being told to the regular folks, but it's written off as a bad trip, or hallucinations, as with the druggie son. It would be interesting if the virus was initially spread though a tainted strain of heroin.
I did watch. Like the above people said, it was slow until the last 15-20 minutes. It'll continue to get better though if they go with this story line.
Is this show completely separate from the comics? In other words, would this give them the ability to move the story in any direction they could possibly want? I know TWD parallels the comic, even though characters get added/subtracted/killed off early/later. But I don't know if the comic covers multiple areas.
Is this show completely separate from the comics? In other words, would this give them the ability to move the story in any direction they could possibly want? I know TWD parallels the comic, even though characters get added/subtracted/killed off early/later. But I don't know if the comic covers multiple areas.
Nothing to do with the comics other than the comic creator is one of the producers.
good point...none of this stuff matters when the shit really hits the fan,,,but will we even get to that point in this show. Will the show be so slow that it only is focusing on the month or two to start the epidemic. I have a bad feeling it will. That means a painstaking process with a drug addict son. Not sure why they would go that route. I found the characters pretty unlikable. I guess the mother was the best one but that teenager was a total turnoff. He looked like a younger version of Johnny Depp and what was up with his outfits. Why would the viewing public want to follow and sympathize with a f up.
I was not expecting much excitement in the first episode. I did think at times they did create a good atmosphere of foreboding and dread but not sure the characters are strong enough for audiences to care
It would be a very short series. The physics and chemistry don't work. Good viewing though.
Definitely take your time and enjoy Season 2. That is by far my favorite season. Love that first episode with the herd marching down the highway.
Plenty of things wrong with the science behind zombies... but starvation? These things are already dead... you don't get deader. The bigger thing would be decay - necrotic flesh would eventually just fall apart, especially with any kind of weather. The dry heat of southern california would make them fairly crispy and brittle.
I think they made a classic error.. will anyone care about this family? Sure characters are more interesting and more real if they have flaws.. but come on.. they need to make them likable before they reveal the warts. Unlike a show like "Ray Donovan", the writers won't be able to flesh out the zombies "characters" to make them more hated and thus elevate the human characters.
Amazing how "Ray Donovan" was able to do that this season. Terry and Bunchie you could always root for.. buy Mickey and Ray? Bad guys both.. and this season they have introduced corrupt rich guys, eastern European mob and the Aryan Nation as foils for these guys. So you have Bad vs Worse.
So, I don't know what FTWD can do to turn this around. They had 90 minutes in that first episode to grab us, make us care... about the family, the city itself.. the residents in-general.... ourselves.. if we were put in that position. Do you see yourself in these characters? Plenty of shows and movies don't fully deliver on characters you care about.. but they have to entertain you instead... are you entertained?
Amazing how "Ray Donovan" was able to do that this season. Terry and Bunchie you could always root for.. buy Mickey and Ray? Bad guys both.. and this season they have introduced corrupt rich guys, eastern European mob and the Aryan Nation as foils for these guys. So you have Bad vs Worse.
So, I don't know what FTWD can do to turn this around. They had 90 minutes in that first episode to grab us, make us care... about the family, the city itself.. the residents in-general.... ourselves.. if we were put in that position. Do you see yourself in these characters? Plenty of shows and movies don't fully deliver on characters you care about.. but they have to entertain you instead... are you entertained?
That's a really fair point. On day one, you could immediately sympathize with Rick - woke up, bewildered, in a strange world, and was just trying to survive. Anyone can put themselves in that situation - confused, afraid, trying to find his loved ones. Add to that the fact that he was the archetypal "good cop", who had a wife and kid... and was trying to retain some sense of order amidst chaos... and it's an easy character to attach to.
I didn't get that off of anyone in FTWD. The closest I got was the kid who brought the knife to school. I'll give it another episode... but we even fell off with the Walking Dead while they were cooped up in the prison, so I don't know if this one's going to stick for us.
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I much rather watch a series that way instead of week to week with seasonal breaks..... I have watched the entire mad men series and house of cards, although that has not finished... Much easier to remember the little things
In a show
And, in turn, I will disagree with that. The farm was a good place.. they ventured out into the woods, the town.. the off-limits barn. Introduced some great characters.. Maggie on Horseback.. great introduction to her. I think they missed an opportunity there with the wild horse in Season 5 by letting Zombies get it. Would have loved to see some "western" elements introduced with horses. Too difficult for production I'd assume.
In any case, I think "Walking Dead" really owes its level of popularity to 2 things.. that first episode ever with the scene in Atlanta (on horseback) and how Season 2 played out. They killed Dale.. thankfully... and Shane.. whose drama with Lori and Rick had played out. That is what made us stick through some odd and uneven choices later on after we know all we care to know about zombies.
A healthy human can survive without food for about 21 days. Season 1 at the CDC we learned that the zombies are "starving to death", but they starve at a slower rate than humans do.
Yeah now that you mention it, there was a lot of interesting things that happened, I just think it dragged out too long. 8 episodes on the farm would have been plenty, but I think they dragged it out because they expanded from what 6 episodes to 13? And for the record, I love the show.
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