So, I haven’t
talked about Fear the Walking Dead
yet this season.
Ya know,
reading around the net, you get the impression Fear’s the red-headed stepchild of the Walking Dead series, given that it started when the original Walking Dead series was already four
seasons in…and, Fear is supposed to
tell where the whole got started. Must’ve
started on the west coast and migrated east.
If that’s the case, if the cast of the Walking Dead quit putzing around Alexandria, they might find people
and warn them before shit hits their fan.
But, they’ve gotta kinda stick to the comics, so they don’t lose their
audience that started watching BECAUSE of said comics.
But, I
digress…
Fear didn’t have those trappings with
characters we weren’t predisposed with. Given
that, audiences jumped on the band wagon on the Walking Dead alone. You either
hated the characters or you liked them.
Now, as with
the Walking Dead, Fear’s NOT about the walkers, but how
the people deal with them and each other.
Blood, guts, gore, and all manner of interesting kills has its place, of
course…we are talking about the dead. It’s
just not the central theme. Speaking of
those characters, one of the main characters we’ve had since episode one, was
offed a couple weeks ago…and, it WASN’T by a walker! It was sad.
This season,
they’re playing with timelines. We’ve
got a past and a present represented by the color palette. I, personally, think that the more vibrant
timeline’s the past, and the darker’s the present…which would mean we lost
another original character since we haven’t seen her in the present timeline…IF
I and a lot on the net are right. There’re
only three episodes left in this first half of the season, so they need to get
on with if this character’s still above ground.
I guess you can call that a beef.
My other
beef’s the new bad tribe. They remind me
of the Walking Dead’s Saviors, but
pretty boys. They’re the Vultures,
because unlike the Saviors’ kill and conquer, they wait for survivors to die
out to move in…not a lot of difference, IMO.
Of course, I’m
gonna ride this one out to see where they go with it to see if I was
right. I’m pretty sure about one of my
theories, I HOPE I’m wrong about the other.
I have to give them credit, though, it’s pretty brilliant playing with timelines
and letting us know which’s which.
Be good to
each other.
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