US: Fear the Walking Dead

Rroff · 20 Sep 2015 at 21:34

SC0TTRS said:
The untouched truck within a riot was a bit silly, i agree lol

Its a bit contrived but I just went with the focus of the riots being in the direction they'd come from and the truck had escaped being on the edge of it - they mostly seemed to go for the police vehicles anyhow there was another untouched vehicle IIRC a little earlier as well.

SC0TTRS said:
Playing Monopoly must have been the dumbest scene so far I mean, come on!, after all that's been seen and done you'd be a complete mess but no!...lets sit down and play a fing board game!...

Putting the bins out in the morning again was a bit silly just after you buried you're neighbour in the garden! lol

checjb said:
I actually thought the brief scene with the bins was very nice. It showed how blind most people were and how desprate they were to cling to normality.

Think they are trying to get the balance right between a world where the walking dead tv show never happened (and people aren't quite as familiar with zombies) but at the same time not have them completely dumb. Likewise I thought the bin scene wasn't a bad touch as it showed how people take time to adjust and sub-consciously still carry out the old routines or try and cling to the familiar.

MookJong · 21 Sep 2015 at 12:35

Why is the son not showered and wearing some of his own clean clothes? WHY?

Captain · 21 Sep 2015 at 13:43

I've just realised travis x wife is the chef in Orange is the new black, she's hot!

Kyo · 21 Sep 2015 at 19:14

MookJong said:
Why is the son not showered and wearing some of his own clean clothes? WHY?

Lol was thinking the same thing. He likes the old chap clothes he stole from the hospital.

Thought the latest episode was interesting. Instead of the walkers the humans was the latest threat. Maybe it will show some insight of what the military had to go through.

Rroff · 21 Sep 2015 at 19:24

Clov!s said:
I've just realised travis x wife is the chef in Orange is the new black, she's hot!

Concerned about Travis - I thought they were going to go the route of while maybe not having to deal with the practical/physical side of it so much (i.e. not dealing with it face to face as much as his wife does) but intelligent enough to put the threads together and deal with the realities - while is wife sort of being the opposite and learning more from the physical/practical experiences of dealing with the zombies - but instead he seems to be fast turning into a male version of Lori Grimes and no one wants to see that.

AndyCr15 · 21 Sep 2015 at 19:51

This is what I'm waiting to see. The military has things under control. Not a single zombie seen last episode... how do they now lose it?

MoRT489 · 21 Sep 2015 at 22:11

So who thinks they're executing people up in the house on the hill?

rids57 · 22 Sep 2015 at 01:53

Easily the best episode so far and not a zombie in sight.

Mak3R · 22 Sep 2015 at 09:57

AndyCr15 said:
This is what I'm waiting to see. The military has things under control. Not a single zombie seen last episode... how do they now lose it?

Probably through that big hole she cut in the fence. And people figuring out there is no hospital (just guessing) for their relatives and running riot.

AndyCr15 · 22 Sep 2015 at 09:59

But we've seen next to no zombies for a few days. How can minimal amounts over run the army?

Kyo · 22 Sep 2015 at 10:01

MoRT489 said:
So who thinks they're executing people up in the house on the hill?

Think was almost certainly the case. You saw the flashes co-incide with gunfire sounds in the window. I was asking a obvious question at the start why not let the military know about the flashes and in a way they answered it in the end.

So thinking the military are enforcing their law and detaining people who

a) are troublemakers or not obeying their commands.

b) that know too much about the plague or what they (the military) are doing?

c) that are "hurt" or potentially could become "sick" for further examination or expermentation or execution. This answers my other question of why not seek medical attention from miltary for the lady with the hurt foot. The Doctor told the husband what he wanted to hear and when it came to it. He was restrained from following.

Sound more and more like this is heading towards

the CDC backstory from TWD in season 1.

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rids57 said:
Easily the best episode so far and not a zombie in sight.

totally agree it was one of the better ones. It was very intresting and the tension defintely ramping up. Anyone think that Madison was bright enough to at least plug that hole she created on the perimeter?

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AndyCr15 said:
But we've seen next to no zombies for a few days. How can minimal amounts over run the army?

I think that is the point. It a "false" sense of security where the "sickness" is only one aspect to the dangers out there. The latest threat is from humanity and the lengths people will go to enforce their letter of the law as society and civility breaks down.

MooMoo444 · 22 Sep 2015 at 10:26

AndyCr15 said:
But we've seen next to no zombies for a few days. How can minimal amounts over run the army?

Think of how many people there are in LA. When they start to spill out, about 20 army guys are going to get overran very quickly.

neil_g · 22 Sep 2015 at 10:30

MooMoo444 said:
Think of how many people there are in LA. When they start to spill out, about 20 army guys are going to get overran very quickly.

yeah, we've all seen the herds of dead from TWD. they'll roll over those flimsy fences like they're grass.

Mak3R · 22 Sep 2015 at 10:42

neil_g said:
yeah, we've all seen the herds of dead from TWD. they'll roll over those flimsy fences like they're grass.

It didn't really look any less flimsy then say the prison fence in TWD and that held them out rather well. Had a sturdy looking gate too. It'll only go to hell when people panic...or keep cutting holes in it

neil_g · 22 Sep 2015 at 10:45

Mak3R said:
It didn't really look any less flimsy then say the prison fence in TWD and that held them out rather well. Had a sturdy looking gate too. It'll only go to hell when people panic...or keep cutting holes in it

the prison was braced diagonally (and it had a double layer), this just looks like its hammered in the ground.

SC0TTRS · 22 Sep 2015 at 11:34

It's nice to see they are building more of a plot with Fear, giving an insight of the military and the slow decay of society, not just Zombie bash episode like TWD has done before it (I don't mind this btw lol).

Might just be me, but I'm still struggling with making a connection with any of the characters....they all could be eaten and I wouldn't give a monkey's atm. :-(

You got the junkie kid I wish would take a bullet to the head!, 'after' he's changed out of them bloody clothes even after a swim in the dirty pool he put them back on!....also Travis's son I find irritating!

Only character that's interesting is Mexican barber, but he's gone to the 'so called' hospital with his wife so we won't be seeing him again...

Anyway, what makes that neighbourhood so special?! And why are the military exterminating everyone outside the fence?

Kyo · 22 Sep 2015 at 11:37

SC0TTRS said:
Only character that's interesting is Mexican barber, but he's gone to the 'so called' hospital with his wife so we won't be seeing him again...

I must have missed it? I thought he was restrained when they came to take his wife? Did he get to go too, I thought the Doc was just saying what he wanted to hear?

SC0TTRS · 22 Sep 2015 at 11:41

Kyo said:
I must have missed it? I thought he was restrained when they came to take his wife? Did he get to go too, I thought the Doc was just saying what he wanted to hear?

Got me thinking now lol...I'm sure he was allowed in the end, might have to re-watch that part.

Uncle Petey · 22 Sep 2015 at 12:02

Nah, he had to stay behind.

Was anyone else wondering why not a solitary **** was given about the dog last week?

Rroff · 22 Sep 2015 at 15:06

SC0TTRS said:
It's nice to see they are building more of a plot with Fear, giving an insight of the military and the slow decay of society, not just Zombie bash episode like TWD has done before it (I don't mind this btw lol).

Might just be me, but I'm still struggling with making a connection with any of the characters....they all could be eaten and I wouldn't give a monkey's atm.

You got the junkie kid I wish would take a bullet to the head!, 'after' he's changed out of them bloody clothes even after a swim in the dirty pool he put them back on!....also Travis's son I find irritating!

Only character that's interesting is Mexican barber, but he's gone to the 'so called' hospital with his wife so we won't be seeing him again...

Anyway, what makes that neighbourhood so special?! And why are the military exterminating everyone outside the fence?

Yeah I hope it doesn't end up going all under the dome, between, etc. style though I'm guessing the finale for the season will be with the current quarantine zone over-run.

Not really connecting with any of the characters either - if they wrote it right wouldn't really need to too much but its a bit hit and miss on that aspect - Madison's little walk about was more the kind of thing I was hoping to see but I didn't feel she had quite enough motivation to go cutting her way outside the fence yet, didn't seem quite right with the extent of the missing posters, flowers, etc. given the timeline of events so far and they didn't spend quite enough time on it for my liking - though it kind of makes sense given the horrors and army presence she'd cut it short.