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.
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.)