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[KibblesBits]

We assume that.

But all we technically have to work with is the show as it currently exists. There's no telling how long it will take to get to that point.



Would I have liked to see more about the breakdown of the system? Hell yes.

But they clearly want to show the breakdown of society from the perspective of this family, which is why so much of it has happened on the fringes.

They showed us that Walkers were around before the riot. They showed us the empty schools. We drove by traffic accident sites that became disasters because someone became a Walker. We saw YouTube footage of Walker attacks (though they didn't know what they were looking at).

We saw zombies killing and eating during the riot. We saw how hospitals had basically fallen to the Walkers. And we saw how in one night, a neighborhood fell into terror and death due to just a few Walkers.

Basically, we're seeing the fall, but only on the very edge of the frame, which can be very frustrating. We're denied access to see how the authorities handled all this, and how those initial breakdowns happened. But that's all by design, I think.

That's exactly what is happening and people are not used to Kirkman's style. It's a shame.

 

[The Artisan]

what was ofelia's mother mumbling about before she died?

 

[Escape Goat]

We assume that.

But all we technically have to work with is the show as it currently exists. There's no telling how long it will take to get to that point.



Would I have liked to see more about the breakdown of the system? Hell yes.

But they clearly want to show the breakdown of society from the perspective of this family, which is why so much of it has happened on the fringes.

They showed us that Walkers were around before the riot. They showed us the empty schools. We drove by traffic accident sites that became disasters because someone became a Walker. We saw YouTube footage of Walker attacks (though they didn't know what they were looking at).

We saw zombies killing and eating during the riot. We saw how hospitals had basically fallen to the Walkers. And we saw how in one night, a neighborhood fell into terror and death due to just a few Walkers.

Basically, we're seeing the fall, but only on the very edge of the frame, which can be very frustrating. We're denied access to see how the authorities handled all this, and how those initial breakdowns happened. But that's all by design, I think.

I think you and the showrunners are vastly overestimating the dramatic potential of not showing stuff happen. Hopefully more conflicts arise among the group. Last episode finslly felt like chatacters ave finally managed to start their own story.

 

[genjiZERO]

Spoiler

he's talking about neogaf.

There are loads of older people on here!

If all you want are zombies, this is not your show. You should probably stick to The Walking Dead instead.

The "teen" characters remain on the show, and they have plotlines, so that aspect won't be going away.

Ah OK. Yeah the last thing I want to see are "I learned it from watching you dad!" scenes. Doesn't look like I'm the demographic for this one. Thanks!

 

[The Artisan]

There are loads of older people on here!

i wasn't saying that i agree with his sentiment; just pointing out what he meant.

 

[Vazduh]

what was ofelia's mother mumbling about before she died?

Basically, in Ep 5 we find out that

Spoiler

Daniel Salazar wasn't exactly an innocent refugee back in war-ridden El Salvador; he was forced to torture people (like he did with Ofelia's soldier-boyfriend) for the military government in order to survive. Griselda knew about his crimes so her bedside confession was about the guilt she had about all the dead people her and Daniel were responsible for.

Can't wait for the pilot episode, btw.

 

[PanicFreak]

That still doesnt explain how zombies reach critical mass. 6,700 over the course of a day in a population of 320 million. Madison learned how to stop a zombie on her second encounter with one. People arent that dumb to not realize for weeks that destroying their brain is the only way to stop them. Thats really tough to accept.

If there was an epidemic of when this zombie virus first appeared and culled millions of people within a short time I could accept.

I think this is one of those times where you have to suspend your disbelief. The fact is that in the real world, the only zombies that could bring society down are the fast ones. The shambling zombies would be wiped from the face of the earth in no time.

 

[Jito]

It really is feeling like a teen drama version of the Walking Dead after last episode with the two teens running away to play dress up and trash a house because fuck the system? Such a strong plotline.

What other reason would they have for creating this show if it's not going to be aimed at a different audience. It'd be so pointless to just make the Walking Dead again but in another city.

 

[The Artisan]

Basically, in Ep 5 we find out that

Spoiler

Daniel Salazar wasn't exactly an innocent refugee back in war-ridden El Salvador; he was forced to torture people (like he did with Ofelia's soldier-boyfriend) for the military government in order to survive. Griselda knew about his crimes so her bedside confession was about the guilt she had about all the dead people her and Daniel were responsible for.

daniel's character description mentioned that he's got a dark past (kind of even implying blood on his hands) so I knew it was only a matter of time before he did some fucked up shit. But, why would she feel guilty about it? wasn't she just at her home raising ofelia (if she was born) while daniel was away at war?

Can't wait for the pilot episode, btw.

you mean the season finale?

 

[Vazduh]

Mess @ me saying "pilot", nnnnnnnnnn :rip:

Yeah, I meant the season finale. Time to turn in, I guess

Speaking of Griselda,

Spoiler

she knew about everything and I guess she just felt guilty about that.

Here's her monologue, btw.

Spoiler

I came to you as a girl, poor and stupid. I promised myself to you because I was young and did not know your nature. I saw the devil's face. It is the same as yours. He showed me his face. It's yours. All those nights... All those nights my husband and I together, waiting for them to break down the door. The faces of the disappeared waiting to curse us with their torches, their rope. I did what I did. I loved who I loved. What did you want me to do? So take my flesh piece by piece if that's my penance. Do it now. I will not ask you why. Now I know your nature. Now you know mine.

Although, now when I think about it, this looks as if she's

Spoiler

talking to God ("devil's face"... "same as yours").

 

[Mario]

I think this is one of those times where you have to suspend your disbelief. The fact is that in the real world, the only zombies that could bring society down are the fast ones. The shambling zombies would be wiped from the face of the earth in no time.

Except the nature of the virus is that any time anybody dies from anything they will turn into a zombie (unless they died of massive brain trauma).

You couldn't wipe out the zombies until you found a cure.

It would be different if turning into a zombie could only happen if you were bitten by one.

It would almost be like trying to wipe out or suppress ebola if every day 150k+ new random people (number of daily global deaths) caught ebola spontaneously as well as those who were heavily exposed to a carrier. That would be pretty much impossible to wipe out, and you couldn't avoid global societal collapse.

 

[therapist]

It really is feeling like a teen drama version of the Walking Dead after last episode with the two teens running away to play dress up and trash a house because fuck the system? Such a strong plotline.

What other reason would they have for creating this show if it's not going to be aimed at a different audience. It'd be so pointless to just make the Walking Dead again but in another city.

Yea , it kind of does.
Its not bad , at least the last episode was somewhat interesting , the one before that was way too slow , felt like hershel's farm all over again in its slowness.

Show could become good , its ok so far , ill keep at it until there's either an upturn or a lori style straight road crash where i just give up.

 

[More_Badass]

If I was going to do a take on Terminator, that doesn't retread old ground, what about a movie or show set post-Skynet defeat?

Humanity has defeated the enemy and are rebuilding society, but there are still Terminators and other Skynet projects in the shadows, autonomously following their directive of defeating humanity and killing John Conner. The machines are the "resistance" now, against a rebounding mankind.

Conner would be kind of like a George Washington figure, the resistance leader now trying to enforce law and order in a new society and effectively acting as a president

 

[Patryn]

If I was going to do a take on Terminator, that doesn't retread old ground, what about a movie or show set post-Skynet defeat?

Humanity has defeated the enemy and are rebuilding society, but there are still Terminators and other Skynet projects in the shadows, autonomously following their directive of defeating humanity and killing John Conner. The machines are the "resistance" now, against a rebounding mankind.

Conner would be kind of like a George Washington figure, the resistance leader now trying to enforce law and order in a new society and effectively acting as a president

Did you mean to post this in this thread?

 

[RedAssedApe]

Yep. In the pilot or the 2nd episode, when madison tells travis to take her to the abandoned church, on the way there she's looking out at what seems to be a park and there's a figure with a hat on you can't see their face, but I think it was a dead person.

yeah, that's why the school was so empty in the beginning. but i don't know if this flu is related to how the zombie virus started. it's a damn shame they're not giving us an origin story for that

my guess is that there were two things going on at once. one was the dormant virus that we now know that everyone has (according to TWD) but doesnt do anything to the person while they are still alive.

combined with some crazy flu that was actually killing people (ala

Spoiler

TWD S4

 

[brandtron8000]

So weird for me watching this show. I grew up in this neighborhood and I went to that High School.

I can always spot exactly where each scene was shot in the school. And it's hard not to notice when they use spaces that don't make sense when you know the physical layout. Like I remember a scene where they go out the front door and then immediately cut to them coming from the side towards that same entrance. Impossible to tell just on TV.

Other than that breaking my suspension of disbelief I've been enjoying it mostly. Just started and caught up recently.

 

[dustyherb]

Except the nature of the virus is that any time anybody dies from anything they will turn into a zombie (unless they died of massive brain trauma).

You couldn't wipe out the zombies until you found a cure.

It would be different if turning into a zombie could only happen if you were bitten by one.

It would almost be like trying to wipe out or suppress ebola if every day 150k+ new random people (number of daily global deaths) caught ebola spontaneously as well as those who were heavily exposed to a carrier. That would be pretty much impossible to wipe out, and you couldn't avoid global societal collapse.

Yep this is exactly why I don't understand why people think it's so unbelievable when you look at the facts presented. You have the issue that every single person is infected so no matter what everyone is going to become a zombie no matter how they die. Then you have the issue that zombie movies don't even exist in the walking dead universe so none of these people know what they are dealing with.

Of course the military/government does know what their dealing but doesn't end up telling the public so you see confusion and chaos break out which only makes things worse.

I mean when you really think about it if every single person was infected there would be no way to control it. Not enough military to have constant lock down on every single person in the country. Maybe if they had advanced notice and time to prepare but I'm guessing the government didn't have near enough time so there's nothing that can really be done.

Like you said finding a cure would be the only solution and the world just goes to hell way too fast to do anything.

 

[Dusk Golem]

I'm playing catch-up, just finished episode 4.

I'll never fully understand both why Walking Dead is so popular, and why others are so hateful on it. I enjoy it, I really do. I think Season 4 and 5 of the main series were MUCH better than the first 3, in my opinion, though I also come from the viewpoint before Seasons 4 & 5 that 2 had the strongest and weakest moments, but ended up being my favorite of the initial 3, and so far I've been enjoying Fear The Walking Dead well enough.

The TV series, both the original and this, aren't written masterpieces, and some things the characters do don't make a whole lot of sense, but I think they deliver enough to make it immersive, in some places the writing and characterization is strong (I do believe the characters can sometimes be the best and worst part of the show), I love the locales and atmosphere of certain segments, the gore recently has been much better and gruesomeness. I understand some really hate on it because it's popular, I'm surprised it's popular and not my favorite TV show, but I look forward to it and do find it to be an entertaining series. Time to catch-up with episode 5, and then I'll have some full thoughts on what's aired so far.

 

[Fliesen]

That still doesnt explain how zombies reach critical mass. 6,700 over the course of a day in a population of 320 million. Madison learned how to stop a zombie on her second encounter with one. People arent that dumb to not realize for weeks that destroying their brain is the only way to stop them. Thats really tough to accept.

If there was an epidemic of when this zombie virus first appeared and culled millions of people within a short time I could accept.

i agree with this. The fact that the incubation time is this long and the TWD walkers are the slow kind of zombies, they need to be critical mass.
The fact that they used riots as means to argue how things got 'out of hand' was already a nice enough start, it'd still take an epidemic.
It's why the Planet of the Apes reboot worked for me.

 

[Shao Kahn on the Lawn]

That still doesnt explain how zombies reach critical mass. 6,700 over the course of a day in a population of 320 million. Madison learned how to stop a zombie on her second encounter with one. People arent that dumb to not realize for weeks that destroying their brain is the only way to stop them. Thats really tough to accept.

If there was an epidemic of when this zombie virus first appeared and culled millions of people within a short time I could accept.

6,700 people under normal circumstances without the things that would happening alongside this phenomenon: riots, looting, an increase of suicides, mass hysteria, and a breakdown of civil services. Every person that dies becomes a zombie and it isn't hard to imagine the situation getting out of hand under those circumstances.

6,700 is the daily number for a Western society with an advanced infrastructure. The loss of hospitals, grocery stores, police protection, power, and basic civility would serve as a multiplier for that number.

 

[Fliesen]

6,700 people under normal circumstances without the things that would happening alongside this phenomenon: riots, looting, mass hysteria, and a breakdown of civil services. Every person that dies becomes a zombie and it isn't hard to imagine the situation getting out of hand under those circumstances.

6,700 is the daily number for a Western society with an advanced infrastructure. The loss of hospitals, grocery stores, police protection, power, and basic civility would serve as a multiplier for that number.

even if you multiply it by a THOUSAND, you'd have 2 zombies per 100 people per day within the US.
easy to keep under control.

There's a reason they skipped 9 days. You simply cannot realistically depict the takeover of Zombies when there's not an unstoppable horde around, yet.

Similarly, we didn't see what happened in the library(?) during the last episode. Dude's with automatic weapons, military training, aiming, no need to conserve ammunition - they wouldn't be overwhelmed that easily. So they decided to just not show it, instead of showing us something utterly convoluted, implausible and almost comedic.

 

[Shao Kahn on the Lawn]

even if you multiply it by a THOUSAND, you'd have 2 zombies per 100 people per day within the US.
easy to keep under control.

There's a reason they skipped 9 days. You simply cannot realistically depict the takeover of Zombies when there's not an unstoppable horde around, yet.

Similarly, we didn't see what happened in the library(?) during the last episode. Dude's with automatic weapons, military training, aiming, no need to conserve ammunition - they wouldn't be overwhelmed that easily. So they decided to just not show it, instead of showing us something utterly convoluted, implausible and almost comedic.

The zombies in these shows aren't just standing around: they're attacking people. The reason they skipped 9 days is because AMC is filled with cheap executives. The hospitals alone have shown exactly how the situation got out of hand. People that were bitten went to the hospital. People that died or were dying of normal circumstances were brought to the hospital. Even once those people are turned, scores of others are bringing their sick/injured/dead to the hospital.

What military training do you believe soldiers receive to prepare them for clearing a structure of zombies? Training for the military is tailored to a number of assumptions: a)the enemy is alive, b)the enemy wants to stay that way, and c)shooting the enemy center-mass will kill them. Soldiers are trained to aim center-mass for a reason: shooting the brain of even a slowly-moving target isn't easy. Grenades and flash-bangs are of limited use so they're basically relegated to small-arms alone.

 

[Bandit1]

my guess is that there were two things going on at once. one was the dormant virus that we now know that everyone has (according to TWD) but doesnt do anything to the person while they are still alive.

combined with some crazy flu that was actually killing people (ala

Spoiler

TWD S4

I think you're right. Would also better explain how everything eventually becomes overrun, a bad flu virus going around, hospitals fall, people can't get medical attention or go to the drugstore to get Tamaflu or whatever, and then you have thousands of deaths, that much more than your average mortality rate.

 

[dustyherb]

even if you multiply it by a THOUSAND, you'd have 2 zombies per 100 people per day within the US.
easy to keep under control.

There's a reason they skipped 9 days. You simply cannot realistically depict the takeover of Zombies when there's not an unstoppable horde around, yet.

Similarly, we didn't see what happened in the library(?) during the last episode. Dude's with automatic weapons, military training, aiming, no need to conserve ammunition - they wouldn't be overwhelmed that easily. So they decided to just not show it, instead of showing us something utterly convoluted, implausible and almost comedic.

It's not easy to keep under control because every single person is infected. You can't keep every single person under protection and quarantined there isn't enough military for that. Add in the fact that the military is having its own issues with soilders not getting any sleep and soilders wanting to just leave and it only makes things worse.

If every single person on the planet is infected with the virus then there's nothing that could be done except find a cure. Now maybe other parts of the world are doing better then the US but just going by how bad it gets here and how unprepared everyone was I'm going to guess the whole world is screwed.

 

[Mario]

There's a reason they skipped 9 days. You simply cannot realistically depict the takeover of Zombies when there's not an unstoppable horde around, yet.

They were in the middle of depicting it just fine. 40+ people a day EVERY day at least turning into zombies randomly throughout the city (using stats for daily deaths in LA). First responders were being bitten meaning their numbers would be reduced quickly. Bite victims trying to "sleep it off" at home rather than going to hospital. Pockets of zombies were appearing amongst the homeless and the poor. Growing public unrest, distrust of the police, and riots leading to more deaths were masking the problem and stretching emergency services. Lack of information, confusion, and fear leading to panic fueling the whole situation. There is only 1 police and military personnel for every 100 people in the US too.

Then they skipped 9 days and LA is a ghost town. Squandered opportunity for presumably budget reasons.

Similarly, we didn't see what happened in the library(?) during the last episode. Dude's with automatic weapons, military training, aiming, no need to conserve ammunition - they wouldn't be overwhelmed that easily. So they decided to just not show it, instead of showing us something utterly convoluted, implausible and almost comedic.

Agree with you on this one. Would have been better if the leader died, and the rest just decided to desert. Or if they were surprised by the kind of 100+ crowds of walkers we've commonly seen on the main show.

 

[Overdoziz]

Why do people look yellow in half the shots? It's really weird.

 

[crazyrabbits]

Similarly, we didn't see what happened in the library(?) during the last episode. Dude's with automatic weapons, military training, aiming, no need to conserve ammunition - they wouldn't be overwhelmed that easily. So they decided to just not show it, instead of showing us something utterly convoluted, implausible and almost comedic.

Agree with you on this one. Would have been better if the leader died, and the rest just decided to desert. Or if they were surprised by the kind of 100+ crowds of walkers we've commonly seen on the main show.

...but that's what was implied. It was shown that the soldiers were already cracking under the pressure and being pushed like crazy by the top brass (the one guy who deserts, Sgt. Castro, mentions that his men are fatigued after being awake for 24 hours). It's also heavily suggested that the rest of the unit (after seeing that the unit sent before them got wiped out) used the library attack as an opportunity to frag their own CO.

I don't mind when people debate about real world vs. the show, but they've fairly clearly set up the breakdown in the military. Not to mention that I said before that people seem to treat the military as this rock-solid, infallible force in real life, when there are any number of reasons why military units wouldn't be effective (stress, mismanagement, soldiers with families bugging out).

 

[Hidden One]

Why do people look yellow in half the shots? It's really weird.

That LA Feel.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Season finale tonight!

The Good Man

Spoiler

As civil unrest continues to grow and the dead take over, Travis and Madison must explore new ways to protect their families in the Season 1 finale.

 

[Kevin]

The last two episodes were absolutely boring and felt so cheap. I expect the season finale to be good simply because AMC will want fans to return next year. I was hoping for more with this show but it is what it is. Maybe it will get better, maybe it won't.

 

[Mario]

...but that's what was implied. It was shown that the soldiers were already cracking under the pressure and being pushed like crazy by the top brass (the one guy who deserts, Sgt. Castro, mentions that his men are fatigued after being awake for 24 hours). It's also heavily suggested that the rest of the unit (after seeing that the unit sent before them got wiped out) used the library attack as an opportunity to frag their own CO.

Looked like what was implied to me was they ended up in a skirmish with a handful of zombies and managed to lose a couple of guys, on top of the squad that was lost.

But there didn't seem to be enough zombies to overwhelm them while they lost multiple guys.

They've seemed so reluctant to depict zombies in numbers (or at all) because of budget or for saving the big reveal to the point where it is hurting the suspension of disbelief, at least for me.

 

[tbd]

Season finale tonight!

Maybe we'll see some zombies.

The last two episodes were absolutely boring and felt so cheap. I expect the season finale to be good simply because AMC will want fans to return next year. I was hoping for more with this show but it is what it is. Maybe it will get better, maybe it won't.

Just drop it for good. That's what I'll do after the episode tonight.

 

[Bandit1]

Season finale tonight!

I'm ready, and also there is an episode of Talking Dead coming on right after.

Little bit off topic but I just finished watching Night of the Living Dead (major spoilers)

Spoiler

I enjoyed it quite a lot, I thought it was very well done for a low budget 1960s horror film. Suprisingly the black guy was the main character for the most part and lived all the way until the end when he was mistaken for a zombie and shot. Dude was a real human being and a real hero. That little twist ending sort of reminded me of something you might see on the Twilight Zone. One thing I loved about the movie was the radio and tv news reports as they slowly put things together, first reports calling the zombies murderers, and eventually relaying information on reanimation and how to kill them, which is something I would have liked to have seen in Fear the Walking Dead. One thing I couldn't really get behind was the zombies picking up rocks and pieces of wood to break glass and beat on doors, I just prefer Walking Dead style zombies, but it was a great movie and I can definitely see why it's a cult classic.

 

[Scalemail Ted]

I'm ready, and also there is an episode of Talking Dead coming on right after.

Little bit off topic but I just finished watching Night of the Living Dead (major spoilers)

Spoiler

I enjoyed it quite a lot, I thought it was very well done for a low budget 1960s horror film. Suprisingly the black guy was the main character for the most part and lived all the way until the end when he was mistaken for a zombie and shot. Dude was a real human being and a real hero. That little twist ending sort of reminded me of something you might see on the Twilight Zone. One thing I loved about the movie was the radio and tv news reports as they slowly put things together, first reports calling the zombies murderers, and eventually relaying information on reanimation and how to kill them, which is something I would have liked to have seen in Fear the Walking Dead. One thing I couldn't really get behind was the zombies picking up rocks and pieces of wood to break glass and beat on doors, I just prefer Walking Dead style zombies, but it was a great movie and I can definitely see why it's a cult classic.

Yeah, it pretty much invented zombies as we know them today.

 

[YoungHav]

LOL fuck I read Bandit's spoiler. I have seen the movie but after reading about the ending, just realized I had never finished it.

But yeah, I was really surprised as fuck that ze black guy was a main character.

 

[crazyrabbits]

Looked like what was implied to me was they ended up in a skirmish with a handful of zombies and managed to lose a couple of guys, on top of the squad that was lost.

They hinted multiple times that Moyers was not popular among his men. Not only was he in a vehicle with a man he just berated for having the "audacity" to care about his men's well-being (Castro), but also another soldier (Cpl. Cole) who was apparently made an example of in front of the other men. The troops are relatively calm upon exiting the library, and when Travis asks where Moyers is, they act disinterested and casually say he's not coming back. From what I can tell, Moyers was the only member of the unit killed during that skirmish.

There are lots of things I can criticize this show for (including the budget), but the way they've depicted the military isn't one of them. This is hardly any different than Cromartie slaughtering an entire group of SWAT members offscreen in the first-season finale of Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles.

 

[TheLostBigBoss]

They were in the middle of depicting it just fine. 40+ people a day EVERY day at least turning into zombies randomly throughout the city (using stats for daily deaths in LA). First responders were being bitten meaning their numbers would be reduced quickly. Bite victims trying to "sleep it off" at home rather than going to hospital. Pockets of zombies were appearing amongst the homeless and the poor. Growing public unrest, distrust of the police, and riots leading to more deaths were masking the problem and stretching emergency services. Lack of information, confusion, and fear leading to panic fueling the whole situation. There is only 1 police and military personnel for every 100 people in the US too.

Then they skipped 9 days and LA is a ghost town. Squandered opportunity for presumably budget reasons.




Agree with you on this one. Would have been better if the leader died, and the rest just decided to desert. Or if they were surprised by the kind of 100+ crowds of walkers we've commonly seen on the main show.

I would agree with you if WHO didn't know that the dead were reanimating and sent out protocols to hospitals all around the world to lock up people who die and can't be revived. .

That's where this falls apart, WHO knew which means all major world governments knew that there was something causing the dead to come back to life. This means they know that there is a good chance that people who die in any fashion are going to become walkers.

Sure, the first days there was probably the idea that the issue can be ironed out and contained with minimal public panic, but obviously at some point the cat is going to be out of the bag and the world is going to know, and that's when the government would enact some type of system of reporting those who are dead to authorities so proper disposal can be done.

The US would have a major recall of troops and while they are coming back stateside the national guard and police force would shutdown major highways, prevent wide spread travel, ban international flights as the initial outbreak of dead people are rounded up and killed. A well armed group of soldiers could easily take out a large group of walkers. The government would just call a national wide martial law that would keep people inside with locked doors with anyone being caught outside being killed.

 

[Crud]

They were going door to door killing people in the no evac zones.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

I'm ready, and also there is an episode of Talking Dead coming on right after.

Thanks for the head's up!

 

[Bandit1]

Thanks for the head's up!

You're supposed to be on top of this Ratsky! Lol

 

[RatskyWatsky]

You're supposed to be on top of this Ratsky! Lol

There are too many shows to keep track of!

 

[Overdoziz]

That LA Feel.

It's more of a Simpsons feel at times.

 

[Mario]

I would agree with you if WHO didn't know that the dead were reanimating and sent out protocols to hospitals all around the world to lock up people who die and can't be revived. .

That's where this falls apart, WHO knew which means all major world governments knew that there was something causing the dead to come back to life. This means they know that there is a good chance that people who die in any fashion are going to become walkers.

Sure, the first days there was probably the idea that the issue can be ironed out and contained with minimal public panic, but obviously at some point the cat is going to be out of the bag and the world is going to know, and that's when the government would enact some type of system of reporting those who are dead to authorities so proper disposal can be done.

The US would have a major recall of troops and while they are coming back stateside the national guard and police force would shutdown major highways, prevent wide spread travel, ban international flights as the initial outbreak of dead people are rounded up and killed. A well armed group of soldiers could easily take out a large group of walkers. The government would just call a national wide martial law that would keep people inside with locked doors with anyone being caught outside being killed.

We are just going to have to agree to disagree on this one. I don't think the US has sufficient resources nor would the population be compliant enough to deal with the issue the way the virus works.

 

[Bandit1]

There are too many shows to keep track of!

Haha I understand, posting for the top of the new page:

A new episode of Talking Dead airs after tonight's episode of Fear the Walking Dead!

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Also, tonight is the finale, so, like, get hype!

 

[Grizzlyjin]

I think sometimes people compare the outbreak in this show to other zombie media. But you have to keep in mind, there is no containing it. If someone dies, no matter what the cause, they come back. You can keep people in their homes all you want, people die of natural deaths in their home all the time. It's different from any other type of contagion protocol because everyone is already infected and everyone eventually dies.

Given that it works that way, I could definitely see there being a breakdown pretty quickly. Martial law. Okay, guy has a heart attack in his house, infects family. You could easily have a neighborhood full of zombies just like that.

 

[Starfield]

Can anyone tell me EXACTLy when the season finale starts?

Like, in how many hours/minutes from this post on.

pls :3

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Can anyone tell me EXACTLy when the season finale starts?

Like, in how many hours/minutes from this post on.

pls :3

About 3 hours.

 

[Gorillaz]

rewatching the show on the amc marathon

honestly I really liked the main character travis the more I rewatch this. I do think he will get killed off fast for some reason but I liked the fact he hasn't been shown yet pulling the trigger on anyone. I feel like if he does die, it will be his hesitation to "act" Almost like an anti Rick currently

 

[Bodacious]

Also, tonight is the finale, so, like, get hype!

Why are they only doing a 6 episode first season? Because TWD did the same when it started?