![]() The oldest boy Seth (Jake Austin Walker) takes after the father, which means that he’d rather his family die together than go on the run. They know they’re just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, hence why Melissa (Catherine Dent) wants her son and daughter to be taken off the island. We meet these people, they seem like nice enough people, but there’s a fatalism to their preparations. That’s the best thing that the episode does. Of course, George knows enough to know that there is no hope, hence the Jonestown preparations. Plus, they’ve got one another, a family unit that, until Maddie and company arrive, suffers no losses. And yet, there’s still enough benefits to sticking around-water, power, relative security-that would make it hard to give up. As Nick says, George is planning a Jonestown situation, which… if you’ve got zombies washing up on the beach and a few hundred zombies in a resort town a few hundred miles away, I could see how that is a hopeless situation. It’s an interesting take on just how some people are going to approach the zombie apocalypse. And there’s definitely something going on. Well, not survivalist, but definitely self-reliant. ![]() That leaves our more naive characters, plus Nick, to go off and make friends with George (David Warshofsky) and his survivalist family. Strand isn’t going to leave his boat, and it makes sense to me that Salazar won’t leave him alone with the boat, just in case he decided to take off. I like the approach Fear The Walking Dead takes to splitting up its cast. Of course, there’s always a dark secret with these kind of families, because this is Fear The Walking Dead, and if a family appears nice and kind and welcoming, there’s something wrong with them. There’s water, power, food, and lots of chain-link fences to keep the zombies out. A survivalist family has taken up residence in the area. Assuming, of course, other people haven’t gotten there first, which they have. Remember the boat from last week that was riddled with bullets? Well, whoever riddled that boat with bullets has a new target, and it’s the Abigail.įortunately, Strand has maps, and he and the others find a secluded cove at a nature reserve, which means ranger stations, which means supplies. However, there’s a threat on the high seas, and it’s coming after our crew of dysfunctional survivors. Fortunately, for the moment, they have a $10 million dollar boat on which to ride out the storms. What we’re left with are a bunch of relatively naive people, a junkie, a mysterious guy with a secret machine gun, and a middle-aged revolutionary and torture expert. Of course, it seems with every radio broadcast that it looks like the hope of rescue is going to remain a pipe dream. We’re not coming across groups of hardened survivors, we’re dealing with people who may or may not be waiting for the military to come sweeping in with tanks and guns to wipe the rotters off the face of the earth and put humanity back on top of the food chain. However, where The Walking Dead dropped us right into the post-apocalypse, Fear The Walking Dead is taking things from a different perspective. A group of survivors go from place to place looking for somewhere to settle down for a little bit, avoiding dangers both undead and living in the process. ![]() Fear The Walking Dead is a familiar format to anyone who has seen the original series.
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