Fear the Walking Dead (TWD: Spinoff)

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AnnaMarie

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Lepplady said:
I think too many people are looking for a carbon copy of TWD - which is understandable considering the title. I went in with no expectations. I was, in fact, prepared to hate it. I can't stand it when a hugely successful movie or show shoots off a spinoff just to cash in. But I was pleasantly surprised. I like the premise, a family caught up in the very beginning of the apocalypse. And I rather like that it involves teens. That's a demographic that's largely been ignored by TWD. They have either kids or adults. But seeing all of those teens pouring out the front door of the high school in FTWD made me realize that, yeah. There would have been all these teens. And where are they? All munched up? I don't think they ALL would have fallen. Teens are resilient. Teens have been sent to war for countries for centuries. They can survive.
I don't mind being in the minority. I liked it.
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I'm with you.

Except, it is pretty much what I expected AND hoped for. The clips released in advance showed Nick running away. We don't see from what, but we assume zombies. Well...after seeing the whole scene, he doesn't really know what he 's running from either. And that makes complete sense...who would see that and actually believe their girlfriend was a zombie?

The other clip showed the woman we now know is Nick's mom. Going in to school and the principal saying something about so many people off sick. And I thought....awesome. We're going to see it through the eyes of teens. If it builds slowly, I wonder if they'll think it's an STI! (Think about it. AIDS is older than today's teens. They don't have that fear that gripped the world when it was first spreading.)
 
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AnnaMarie said:
I'm with you.

Except, it is pretty much what I expected AND hoped for. The clips released in advance showed Nick running away. We don't see from what, but we assume zombies. Well...after seeing the whole scene, he doesn't really know what he 's running from either. And that makes complete sense...who would see that and actually believe their girlfriend was a zombie?

The other clip showed the woman we now know is Nick's mom. Going in to school and the principal saying something about so many people off sick. And I thought....awesome. We're going to see it through the eyes of teens. If it builds slowly, I wonder if they'll think it's an STI! (Think about it. AIDS is older than today's teens. They don't have that fear that gripped the world when it was first spreading.)
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Yeah. That one kid with the knife said
They don't know if it's a virus or a bacteria. They don't know what it is but it's spreading. People are killing.The START of the end of the world creeps up on you. for a while, cell phones keep working and the lights stay on. People can pretend that life can stay normal. You don't pick up a machete and start chopping people's heads off because of some weird police footage of a guy that's probably on PCP or bath salts, and vague reports of outbreaks across the country. But when the lights go off, it's a different story. Then it becomes real. Then things happen fast.
I think they're showing a fair representation.
 
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Lepplady said:
That's what I'm saying. I think people expected TWD. They compare it. But this is a completely different show. It's a build-up with normal society descending into decline. Not "Holy sh!t! I'm surrounded by zombies!"
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Agreed. I'm glad that they want to do something different tonally, emphasize different things than the original show does. That was part of the draw of this show. I just don't know if I will like the direction they've chosen. And like I said, a big part of this was characters. I just didn't like them. If I found the protagonists more interesting, I would have less of a gripe over the lack of "stuff" happening.

But it's still early. Once civilization starts to fall apart, I'm sure things will pick up, and post apocalyptic terror will rule the day. It's just going to take longer to get there.
 
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The scene with Nick choking....that was so hard for me to watch? I know two people who died that way....one quite recent. Neither were people really close to me, but I couldn't help but think how bad that would have been for their families watching.
 
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Well personally, I'm enjoying it a whole lot more than I thought I would. I'm hugely enjoying the setting of Los Angeles and I think it opens up a whole range of possibilities in what they can do with the show. I love The Walking Dead, but I do sometimes find myself looking at the latest set of woods and wondering to myself if it's perhaps getting a little mind-numbing and repetitive. And I feel like I'm the only guy who likes these characters. Except for the sister, maybe. And the ex-wife. And her son. Okay, well I like most of the core cast, at least.
When the principal was wrestling around with Tobias on the floor, I found myself literally on the edge of my seat and hoping that Tobias wouldn't end up as Zombie feed.
And I'm enjoying the slow burn. You don't want everything to go to hell within the first episode, you want to see this thing build up and gradually start to seem like more and more of a catastrophe. I'm enjoying it.
 
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2nd ep was better, but I still don't really care what happens to any of them but Tobias. It is interesting to watch things start to go downhill, and Tobias was definitely right:
when civilization starts to go, it goes fast. The thing I like best about this show, and I didn't think I'd like this part at all, is the LA setting. I was expecting it to be in the richer area, not East LA. Having them working class made it more relatable, and it keeps the 'small town' feel that makes so much horror fiction work. Have you ever noticed that not many really superb horror stories take place in a big city? If they do, the scope is limited--one apartment, or one building, or the characters are there for a very short time. We expect chaos in a big city; when it happens close to 'home' or Rockwellian America, though... that really hurts. Bad things aren't supposed to happen in small towns.
 
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While I do not like the character, I can't help but to find the mom kinda hot..
 
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