Fear The Walking Dead

could have been glorious.
is boring.
sad.

The Walking Dead has spent half of an entire season at one location many times

I stopped watching The Walking Dead after Beth was killed off. It's not that I was very invested in that character, it mostly had to do with the immense cowardice the creators showed by going with that option. I caught up over the last few days to be able to stay in touch with the discussion.

This spinoff, well... I find it inferior to the original in every aspect.

I could be worse. They could just put a go-pro on a zombie as it walks around the yard in circles for six months.

I think that might be more interesting than the forced family drama BS. There are working bits and pieces but they're totally missing the mark on what they tried to do there. Should have taken a good long look at Spielberg's WAR OF THE WORLDS. That's how you do family drama in front of a huge, explode-y canvas right.

I'm catching up with the last season of the Walking Dead right now. IMO the only difference between the two shows is the more ethnic cast and everything taking place in a city as opposed to the woods..

I still really like the concept of this but I fucking haaaaate the characters. They're just awful.

Well, hopefully they all died shortly after the final episode.

The season finale of Fear the Walking Dead shows just why a zombie apocalypse origin story defies credulity.

A few hundred zombies are able to overrun a military compound with dozens of heavily-armed and well-trained soldiers?

I like zombie movies, and particularly The Walking Dead, but for the love of Pete please don't try to explain how the outbreak happened or you'll lose the audience.

All it would take to nullify the zombie hordes are some old WWII era Sherman tanks equipped with mine flails, or a fleet of tractors with tilling attachments. Seriously.

I think "World War Z" explained how the modern American military could be overrun by zombies fairly well, myself. A lot of it has to do with most of the weapons being designed to disable rather than kill outright, and training to shoot for center of mass rather than for the head.

Those were the crazy-ass fast zombies/infected like in Zack Snyder's Dawn remake or 28 Days Later. I can see that being a problem.

But the slow, lumbering, uncoordinated zombies from the Romero movies or Walking Dead? Not a chance of taking over the world.

Well, Romero's zombies just had to be a local, surprise threat and that worked because you had a small group of people caught unawares and unprepared. But there's no way to extrapolate that situation into a long-term world conquest story line without creating glaring logical flaws.

The reason why the Walking Dead is able to be a worldwide calamity is because all humans everywhere are infected, and all who die will turn into a monster.

Think about that. Any woman who miscarries suddenly has a zombie fetus gnawing at her uterus, so she dies and turns zombie. Everyone who has a heart attack in the middle of the night gets up and eats their family, etc.

Naturally, you can adapt to this and develop some controls to mitigate these problems, but in the short term, especially before anyone understands what's going on, you are going to have extreme chaos.

The book, not the movie. The book had slow ones.

In the World War Z book, the tide in the war turned basically when soldiers started using modified field trench digging shovels to decapitate the undead in melee combat.

That's why I think our armed forces need to begin outfitting our troops with medieval plate armor (to resist zombie bites) and swords.

Fun fact (that I'm sure everyone knows) is sharpened shovels were very popular for melee combat during world war 1.

With what? No teeth until several months after the baby's born.


Finally got around to finishing this.

It's...okay. Don't really care about any of the characters. The rich black guy's probably my favorite.

I'm curious to see where they take it next season.

He was the only one who seemed to have a commanding presence. The rest of the cast would just make nice zombie bait for Alexandria.