Posted on 08/30/2015 1:45:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin
As we head into the second episode of Fear the Walking Dead on AMC, the show is already a runaway success. It shattered both live ratings and DVR records for a cable show, and has likely secured itself a lifespan past the initial two seasons that have already been greenlit.
I quite liked the pilot, which was slower paced than the original Walking Dead, and managed to capture more of a sense of rising tension. You only saw two or three zombies over the course of the evening, yet that was in many ways more terrifying than the type of hoard we now take for granted on The Walking Dead every week.
And yet, I worry that Fear the Walking Dead could potentially fall victim to some of the early mistakes of the original show. While The Walking Dead is a cultural phenomenon now, in its early seasons, it was often comically bad to the point where it could have collapsed altogether. Here’s how Fear the Walking Dead can avoid that type of situation.
Fewer idiots
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A faster learning curve
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Throw hope out the window (for now)
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Stay mobile
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(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
How about explaining why it takes so long for people to learn to shoot them in the head? In the America I live in the average ‘bitter clinger’ would most likely have his family pulled into the home and neighbors would quite quickly have identify & kill tactics and groups established.
I tune in each week to see Maggie survive.
I can understand that. I used to want to see Carl eaten. But he came around this year.
Interesting analysis. I had trouble getting into The Walking Dead and I’m having the same felling about this show.
On the Walking Dead the sound of gunfire attracts them. Eventually you would run out of ammo and be overwhelmed.
Here Merle herds the zombies by jamming rock on the car stereo. (some of it Ted Nugent)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT59l3Yn4TY
LOL
However this new program deals with the beginnings of this plague. It would take about 24 hours for this stuff to be brought under control.
Watch a bunch of ruthless, deadly, brainwashed zombies destroy America?
No thanks, I’ve already watched it...it’s called The Democratic Party!
Ed
Has anyone ever pointed out that the biology, and indeed, the physics, of The Walking Dead’s zombies is simply impossible?
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LOL.
Really, zombies are impossible?
Who knew?
You mean Romero’s Night of the Living Dead was not a documentary?
The Walking Dead is a fictional program based on a comic book. I don’t think anyone cares that it is not possible. It’s dark entertainment, period.
But I think you knew that.
I had trouble getting into The Walking Dead and I’m having the same felling about this show.
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Try this, it worked for me.
My wife was away for the weekend visiting her mom, the kids are mostly out on their own, and I was home nursing an injury which required the use of pain meds.
They were showing a WD marathon on AMC (probably in advance of season 2) so, with nowhere to go (I don’t drive while on oxycodone), I watch the entire first season all doped up.
After that, absolutely addicted.
To the show.
The expectation that the audience should be on psychotropic drugs in order to appreciate the performance is not so much The Walking Dead, it’s the Grateful Dead.
The expectation that the audience should be on psychotropic drugs in order to appreciate the performance is not so much The Walking Dead, it’s the Grateful Dead.
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Was my response to McGruff not obviously tongue in cheek enough?
Although my wife will tell you that, on the occasion of her first exposure to Grateful Dead crowds (early 2000s, one of the GD spinoffs for whom Dylan opened), she was thinking of zombie hordes descending on Meriweather Post Pavilion after the last notes of Dylan’s encore faded into the pines.
I knew what was coming, she did not.
I dreamt I was at Woodstock one time and Jimi Hendrix was my Monday morning alarm clock. You want to talk about Walking Dead.
:)
In the TWD and FTWD worlds there have never been any zombie movies ever made. That is why they don’t know the zombie rules from the outset.
Which explains why they go from multiple body shots on the dude in episode 1 that bit the EMT to the single body shot followed by the head shot on the punk rock zombie chick in episode 2 last night.
Fat kid Travis figured it out after stabbing the principle in the chest but unlike TWD the corpses are not brittle enough yet to stab a knife into the brains.
As I think YOU knew that before your pointless snark.
As I think YOU knew that before your pointless snark.
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Nothing pointless about my snark. You fully earned it by attempting to apply real-world biology and physics lesssons to a tv show based on a graphic comic book. Read those last 2 words again. Comic book.
What’s next?
Shall we talk about the physics of the various Superman movies, also based on comic books?
Those who us who enjoy the shows have willingly suspended our disbelief for entertainment purposes, the same willing suspension of disbelief that allows you to enjoy theatre productions, movies and the like.
Of course. With any science fiction, you have to accept a premise. Faster than light travel. Transporters. The sounds of explosions in space.
But what really bugs me...is that they have gone several years with old gasoline in their cars and motorcycles...and it hasn't jelled up. When their car runs out of gas, they just get into another car and it starts up just fine.
The interesting thing about this is that within the Risk Management community the primary fear remains a pandemic. I have no background in medicine or public health but people that I respect who do say the that this has a potential to be a global catastrophe in some cases. Likely more for third world areas which are densely populated.
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