1.02: Fear The Walking Dead - So Close, Yet So Far
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Jesse412
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This was better than the pilot and had much better pacing. I thought the opening scene was properly tense. I liked the zombie attack in the school as well. The protest turning into a riot was pretty cool. Hopefully this show keeps improving.
Tense is the right word. The acting is again superb. Kudos to AMC for so consistently finding talented actors to fill these roles.
Amazing that the high school kid with the kitchen knife is the only one who seems to get both what's happening and what will happen. Civilization ends fast and very, very messily.
Amazing that the high school kid with the kitchen knife is the only one who seems to get both what's happening and what will happen. Civilization ends fast and very, very messily.
I agree and I also thought this was a much better episode than the much slower first episode. I really want to see what happens now. I'm still not sure that the families have what it takes to survive, but Madison bashing Art with the fire extinguisher puts her well on the road there, and leaving Matt to die wouldn't happen on any usual TV show. At least some of them are beginning to realise what is happening: Travis watching the cop stocking up with water and petrol, Alicia seeing her neighbour attacking his family in the garden. This series is going to show what a very nice, normal family has to do to survive. We didn't see this part of the story in TWD because by the time Rick showed up they had already formed a group of survivors. Of course, they should be well out of the city by now and camped out in the desert somewhere with the food supplies from the school. With the highways blocked and the power going down, they have missed their opportunity now. We know that probably wouldn't have been enough to save them anyway, but staying put in a Barber's shop and a suburban house don't seem very good locations to survive the Zombie Apocalypse either.
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ctg
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I'm sorry I didn't update yesterday as we went to Notting Hill Carnival and by time we got back: a) it was soooo late b) I was still too drunk and c) I had so much still to do. So apologies.
What I did however was that I watched the episode. The pimple faced youth is my hero. He's been in the interwebs, probably very hungry for the knowledge that conspiracy related sites has been spamming around. What he didn't had was the kill information, or that the zombies are attracted to noises because their eyesight is so poor after the necromorphis has turned them into living nightmares. However, he was very clever on going back and trying to acquire food that they for some reason left behind.
Oh man, these people are going to have hell of hangover when it finally dawns them that the foil-hats were right after all. Just look at the nightmare of people going totally anarchic after the coppers shot two walkers in down town. Although I'm not it was in the down town, it was well deep into the urban sprawl of city of angels. Therefore, I might have update my initial estimation on the number of the walkers, because the plague is spreading in alarming rate with aid of bites and scratches.
In the TWD we have seen that scratches doesn't equal in full blown fever, where the host body is trying to burn away invading organism. But what we also know is that everyone, minus alarming head wounds, come back. With the Authorities going mental on their attempt to control the epidemic they are causing an surge of total zombie numbers. In other words, people of Los Angeles, are F
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But so are everyone around the world, including those that go in hiding through their preper code. Only positive thing is that with time comes the knowledge, and with knowledge the possibility of survival. The people in TWD's Alexandria are a good example of those who prepared for this sort of occasion, only they don't posses the skills and knowledge of how to survive out there.
In the FTWD, my hope is that these two families join their forces and understand to get into a fortification or move out, because next things on Authorities list are Quarantine Zones and Martial Law to gull the undead uprising and full blown anarchy.
What I did however was that I watched the episode. The pimple faced youth is my hero. He's been in the interwebs, probably very hungry for the knowledge that conspiracy related sites has been spamming around. What he didn't had was the kill information, or that the zombies are attracted to noises because their eyesight is so poor after the necromorphis has turned them into living nightmares. However, he was very clever on going back and trying to acquire food that they for some reason left behind.
Oh man, these people are going to have hell of hangover when it finally dawns them that the foil-hats were right after all. Just look at the nightmare of people going totally anarchic after the coppers shot two walkers in down town. Although I'm not it was in the down town, it was well deep into the urban sprawl of city of angels. Therefore, I might have update my initial estimation on the number of the walkers, because the plague is spreading in alarming rate with aid of bites and scratches.
In the TWD we have seen that scratches doesn't equal in full blown fever, where the host body is trying to burn away invading organism. But what we also know is that everyone, minus alarming head wounds, come back. With the Authorities going mental on their attempt to control the epidemic they are causing an surge of total zombie numbers. In other words, people of Los Angeles, are F
. But so are everyone around the world, including those that go in hiding through their preper code. Only positive thing is that with time comes the knowledge, and with knowledge the possibility of survival. The people in TWD's Alexandria are a good example of those who prepared for this sort of occasion, only they don't posses the skills and knowledge of how to survive out there.
In the FTWD, my hope is that these two families join their forces and understand to get into a fortification or move out, because next things on Authorities list are Quarantine Zones and Martial Law to gull the undead uprising and full blown anarchy.
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Enjoyed the episode very much, although a little confused as to why they didn't carry on retrieving the food from the school after they off'd the principal? Were they supposed to be in shock? Didn't come across very well to me. But yes, the series is definitely doing a great job of setting up for the ZA, what do we think is in the desert? Presumably there must be something there for them, they can't just be agreeing to meet in some arid geographical area on the premise that they will just 'bump' into each other? Assuming they make it there at all...
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A secret concentration camp to study the necromorphosis and possible cure. Or then it might the Patient Zero and the source location for the zombie virus. We don't know. So let's hope there's more world-building into revealing a bit more into the origins of this apocalyptic plague.
PS. I think there's one zombie to every thousand people at the moment, giving total of 10 000 by 2015 numbers to city of Los Angeles.
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What can I say, I'm just familiar with the way people seemingly managed to find each other in TWD by simply wandering into them
It can sometimes be a little too 'convenient'. I'm sure there's something out there for them, but I'm also not sure they will ever make it there (well, this season)...
Re: The Desert - I might be wrong, but it seemed to me that they were thinking of a place they all already knew - such as a place they regularly go for day-trips or for family vacations. Maybe, and I'm now speculating, they have a holiday home there? It doesn't really matter now because they are never going to make it there and even if they do someone else will have got there first.
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I rewatched the episode this morning and they talk about the desert in the car as an escape location. Not in the way that there's something strange happening in there. Even the background radio is full bollocks and nothing out of the ordinary. Even the mysterious "fever" the principal used in the pilot episode is nothing but load of rubbish.
In other words it's all propaganda. The Authorities might have means and methods to know more, but as we have seen, they don't shell any information out even though it's becoming very evident that cities around the world are experiencing an undead invasion. Nick knows this as he says to his mum, "Nobody knows."
However, it becomes absolutely clear that the people are experiencing something extraordinary and they can sense it moving among the people, even if their mind doesn't comprehend the facts. Just look at these two:
In few weeks time, that paramedic might be chopping peoples heads off instead of treating their bite marks. But now, the reality is wrapped in confusion about what the hell is going on. You would think that a paramedic would have information that the copper might not have or that the copper would have some idea about the extend of "freaks" out there. But no, there's nothing out there other than the stuff that my hero shells out.
And he's right. It's almost like he's the harbinger of doom. Tobias understands that there's no way out from this and things are spiralling down rabidly while the epidemic swamps the world. What is interesting is that there's almost no news coverage even though on all previous epidemics the news media played a big role. In the last year Ebola epidemic it was news canvassed by bots crawling over the interweb that provided researchers clues about the extended of things, and in two weeks they knew it wasn't going to go away. WHO listened to them and over the time, it was based news reports and ground studies that made the World Health Organisation to claim that there was going to be around hundred fifty thousand dead by December.
CDC Dr Jensen said nothing about it. Maybe he forgot, or didn't want to shell out because the apocalypse had already turned its ugly face to the reality and there was no point on shelling the information on past. Nothing other than the fact that everyone has it. Tobias however says he has seen them in "videos" without indicating they most probably were shared in the conspiracy sites. Maybe they have even shown something like this happening out there.
What on earth made those people to camp outside when there's zombies on lose?
In other words it's all propaganda. The Authorities might have means and methods to know more, but as we have seen, they don't shell any information out even though it's becoming very evident that cities around the world are experiencing an undead invasion. Nick knows this as he says to his mum, "Nobody knows."
However, it becomes absolutely clear that the people are experiencing something extraordinary and they can sense it moving among the people, even if their mind doesn't comprehend the facts. Just look at these two:
In few weeks time, that paramedic might be chopping peoples heads off instead of treating their bite marks. But now, the reality is wrapped in confusion about what the hell is going on. You would think that a paramedic would have information that the copper might not have or that the copper would have some idea about the extend of "freaks" out there. But no, there's nothing out there other than the stuff that my hero shells out.
And he's right. It's almost like he's the harbinger of doom. Tobias understands that there's no way out from this and things are spiralling down rabidly while the epidemic swamps the world. What is interesting is that there's almost no news coverage even though on all previous epidemics the news media played a big role. In the last year Ebola epidemic it was news canvassed by bots crawling over the interweb that provided researchers clues about the extended of things, and in two weeks they knew it wasn't going to go away. WHO listened to them and over the time, it was based news reports and ground studies that made the World Health Organisation to claim that there was going to be around hundred fifty thousand dead by December.
CDC Dr Jensen said nothing about it. Maybe he forgot, or didn't want to shell out because the apocalypse had already turned its ugly face to the reality and there was no point on shelling the information on past. Nothing other than the fact that everyone has it. Tobias however says he has seen them in "videos" without indicating they most probably were shared in the conspiracy sites. Maybe they have even shown something like this happening out there.
What on earth made those people to camp outside when there's zombies on lose?
