Fear the Walking Dead (spoilers)
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Re: Fear the Walking Dead (spoilers) September 01, 2015 |
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I so wish I could watch this. (About to get S5 of TWD on DVD.)
I only saw the first few minutes on YouTube - featuring some junkie dude who looked a bit like Johnny Depp.
That was Nick. A heroin addict. He's convinced that the situation is real, having awakened from a strung out stupor in an abandoned church to find a friend had OD'd, turned and was eating another druggie.
Episodes are available to watch on AMC's web page. I paid for all of them up front through Amazon (10 or 11 bux) so that I wouldn't have to watch all the commercials or deal with the slow response from AMC.
The show is spot on, I think, in how people would react. There would be a tiny portion at first who would get a clue (Tobias, Nick), the first responders would know (doctors, cops) but the majority of the world would likely act as the other major characters have. Denial from Madison (mother). Being a person of authority herself, she seems to have started out with the idea that other authorities would take care of the problem. Travis - hero dad. He just wants to gather everyone together and keep them safe.
The teenagers are acting as one would expect. Alicia - daughter. Typical self-absorbed, superior brainiac. All she wants to do is be with her boyfriend and get out of her lower middle class situation. Even the slightest indication that those plans will go awry is going to cause her to go off.
One big blot of incongruity: Madison tells her daughter to not touch her boyfriend, being afraid that Alicia is going to catch what Matt has, yet when Madison sees Artie - bloody, shambling and groaning - she goes right to him in comfort and an attempt to help. Weak-weak-weak character gesture. You know it's meant to get her close enough where Artie the Walker is going to make a grab at her.
As a Walking Dead viewer, it would probably be easier to watch the show if I could disassociate one from the other. TWD tells us how rilly-rilly bad it's going to get. FTWD shows why. When Madison tells an eye rolling Tobias that the authorities will "contain this," I feel like hollering "bitch, you have no idea!"
The Hispanic woman in the barbershop praying and telling her rosary - bitch, Gawd has checked right out of this. No use calling on that dude.I'm going to rewatch the episodes with a view of what I've read from a number of articles. Apparently the creators have been throwing in teasers that indicated from the first that people knew what was going down.
When Nick was in the hospital after being hit by the car, he was in the same room as an old guy who was clearly going to croak at some point. The staff was very worried about that; several saying "this guy needs to be downstairs!" When he coded, they didn't perform heroic measures at that point, being more concerned about getting him "downstairs." It appears that measures had already been put in place to deal with people who were sure to turn; the medical community knew what was going on.
Something else I read - how easy it was for the zombie plague to take hold and go wildfire so fast. It hit the homeless, the druggies gathering in dark and abandoned buildings, and street people. Almost impossible to contain at that point. No one pays attention to them; they always look dirty, sick and battered; the only people who purposely come into contact with them are authorities, medical personnel and shelter managers. If those people are bit, the most they worry about is HIV, otherwise they get a tetanus shot, doctor the wound and go about their business, soon becoming sick and blaming it on some other cause. That is a realistic plot device.
As I noted, if you are a WD fan, it's best to try and pretend you've never seen that show. It makes FTWD easier to watch.
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