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Fear The Walking Dead

CaptainWacky

CaptainWacky

I want to smell dark matter
So apparently this starts today and they never came up with a better name than "Fear The Walking Dead."
 
I'm watching it now. The dad's just gone to check the crack den for flesh eating girls. AT NIGHT.

It's pretty slow.
 
IS IT A ZOMIE, IS IT A ZOMBIE, IS IT A ZOMBIE...

No it's just a sleepy guy and the music is making you think he's a zombie.
 
I liked it. It started off slow and tbh never really picked up the pace very much, but I felt that was just the right thing to do. For me at least, the tension grew and grew, without having to have a full blown apocalypse before the end of the first episode.

It was quite predictable at times, but maybe that was intentional? Dramatic irony and all that. Thinking of the man in the hospital particularly.

Druggy kid actor was really good.
 
I think a problem for me was we've spent five years watching The Walking Dead so we already know zombies are real. So kind of playing it like "is druggy kid imagining the zombies!?" doesn't really work since we know he isn't. And his one black friend being his drug dealer was lol. What it did do was give a lot of background on the characters and their life before the apocalpyse, whereas in Walking Dead we still don't know a lot about some of the characters. That makes sense as we're going to watch their lives fall apart now.

The sister was hot.
 
I thought it was too slow as well, but like you guys understand why. There's only like 6 episodes though, so let's hope it picks up a bit.

Why are the eyes such a bright blue here? Is that something significant to the beginning of the outbreak? They're almost like jewels.
 
Three named black guys dead in two episodes...they didn't waste any time!

This episode was better though.
 
Jeez. Hadn't noticed that!

I really liked this episode, though. The naturalistic shooting style is really effective and believable, and the acting is generally very good. The mum and Nick being the best. The dad is a bit expressionless (well, he does have one). Maybe he's trying not to ham it up.
 
I'd like to see what's happening on a larger scale. I thought we'd get to see more about how the virus originally spread, but because it's from the point of view of the family we only know what they know.
 
Mm, that's true. It's possible they'll bump into someone who'll explain how the first cases arose, but it won't be the same as actually seeing it.

I did expect them to have a more diverse group of characters. I thought it'd be similar to the main show, with a set of strangers dispersed about the city, and eventually forming a group. Having a family unit is good since they all already care about and trust one another, but it does mean we lack the varying points of view. It could've been good to have someone in a hospital, a cop, a school kid, prisoner, etc, to show how it affected different sections of society.
 
I wonder if the conspiracy theory kid will be in it again. Or if he'll show up in The Walking Dead next season with rippling muscles and two zombie "wives" on chains.
 
I half expected him to lock Mrs C in the supply cupboard and try to keep her as a sex slave, so probably.
 
I have taken to calling this show "Beverly Hills, 90210hshitzombies!". The second episode was much better than the first, but some thoughts:

1. Junkie Depp is the best thing in the show. His sister's reactions to his withdrawals were very real and raw. Good energy between them.

2. Four million people in Los Angeles. One kitchen knife. I like the nerd kid but seriously, he went all that way for a knife and canned food, and left with none of it.

3. Does dad realize he is setting up his survival team to consist of his bitchy ex, his bitchy current squeeze, and the only group of teenagers in LA that don't think he's the cool teacher? By week five this guys is gonna be volunteering to go on scouting missions armed with only a blindfold and a bottle of ketchup.

4. I like that the entire busful of people wanted to spontaneously go check out the police shooting and start a socially conscious riot, but nobody was carrying a tv.

5. Seriously, that fucking kitchen knife. You're in fucking Pomona, kid, don't tell me there are no guns in Pomona.

6. Actual leaked dialogue from final episode between ex and current woman: "Know what else I can't stand? That smacking noise he makes when he sleeps." "I know, what IS that? Gross. Where are you going honey? Another unarmed scouting mission? See if you can bring back tampons, our cycles are syncing up. Also, chocolate."

7. "go to the desert" is a brilliant plan until you realize that everything surrounding LA is basically desert, except the side with the ocean. Way to narrow it down, dad.
 
I wish someone would make a zombie fiction where the characters actually know what zombies are (because they've watched zombie fiction.)
 
Why is druggie son still wearing old man clothes? I know he took them from the hospital, but he's been home for a while now. Why hasn't he got changed?
 
So are radio, tv and the internet just completely gone? I feel like they skipped the atual fall of society part of the story.

I thought the mother was the smart one, then she cut a hole in the fence and went for walk in zombieland.
 
Good point about radio. I can understand the lack of Internet since a lot of infrastructure is required to be maintained and powered to keep it going, but if someone turned on a radio they might find informative broadcasts.

That aside I thought it was a really good episode. It showed how humans are more creepy and dangerous than zombies ever can be in a much more effective manner than TWD ever does. The power of the military to take people away and dispose of them at their will and to keep people subdued was all very well done.

I did wonder why the mother went out without any weapons, but I'm not sure she even had access to any. Sneaking out of the safe zone seems like a reasonable thing for a school principal to do, though. She's used to being an authority and a decision maker, so I don't find it odd that she'd want to go out there and see for herself what's going on, without asking permission or waiting for an explanation.
 
The insurance salesman guy was really over the top. He was like Johnson from Peep Show except I think we were supposed to take him seriously.
 
I thought of Johnson too. Presumably he's mentally ill or something, though, or why would he be there? Very odd addition to an otherwise pretty realistic show.
 
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