Fear the Walking Dead

Webisodes begin Sunday. A 16-episode series about a flight (perhaps the one shown a couple of episodes ago) + one of the characters from the webisode will join the series.

'Fear The Walking Dead: Flight 462' Web Series Gets Premiere Date

 

I'm a little confused that the soldiers were routed by the zombies during their road trip with Travis, though.

In TWD, the Rick's rag-tag band can hold its own wearing civilian clothing and using knifes and rebar.
In FTWD, trained military personal wearing flak gear and helmets and using military-grade firearms are routed from an office building after losing the bulk of their personnel.
I realize there's a big difference in experience level when it comes to handling zombies based on the earlier vs. later timeline, but it still doesn't seem feasible.

 

My only guess is the zombies are stronger since they are fresh? But yeah. I see your point.

 

Having read World War Z, the military getting routed early on isn't so far fetched. In the battle of Yonkers the military learns the hard way that old tactics don't work anymore and they get routed. And in TWD you see military members in full gear having turned, so it might just be people had to learn how to actually fight. In TWD, everyone knows you have to get head shots. The military might have been trying center of mass kills rather than aim for the head, then got into bad positions and couldn't fend them off fast enough and/or didn't have a knife or other secondary weapon when bullets ran out.

I also read far too much into things, so there's that too.

 

I got that during the riot and earlier scenes. They didn't understand the headshot necessity.
But the military people know about the traumatic head injury necessity at this point.

They know they're walking corpses. They know they speared the contagion through biting and scratching. They've got full gear and weapons. They should be able to clear a building or beat a tactical retreat when the numbers are too large.

 

IIRC, over the radio communication when Travis is in the jeep, you can hear someone way they are being overrun, there's too many of them.

 

Not bad.
I called the boat as soon as Strand suggested going west.
I've got to say, though, the Strand character, what little we've seen is more than a little over-wrought.

All in all, I enjoyed the season.

 

Man, they brung it with ep. 6 Brah!!!

 

Are the walkers in the water called *swimmers*?

 

They're probably not going to call them 'walkers,' according to exec. producer on 'Talking Dead' after the finale.
They've been calling them 'the infected,' but next season they will have a new term now that all the characters understand they are not just sick people.
Exec. producer talked about how Rick's group calls them 'walkers' and the Gov. called them 'biters.' He said they will coin a phrase for these characters, and he is open to input from fans.

 

This episode felt more familiar. We're used to situations where there are a ton of walkers and it's chaos. The episode when the infected neighbor was standing in the road? That was scary to me.

All in all, I liked this a lot, and I'm excited for the Walking Dead next week.

 

Is that what was in the water? I honestly couldn't tell what was in the ocean.