OT: Fear The Walking Dead - series premier
August 24th, 2015 at 3:43 AM ^
Hey thanks for the reminder. Gonna go up to FreeTV Project and try to grab a stream and watch while playing some piano.
http://projectfreetv.so/fear-the-walking-dead-season-1-episode-1/
The trailers for this looked great. LA is the perfect setting for this spin off.
Mr. Robot is a pretty cool new series too.
February 9th, 2016 at 2:53 AM ^
This is reallly awesome
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August 24th, 2015 at 4:37 AM ^
5 min in. This is good.
August 24th, 2015 at 7:25 AM ^
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August 24th, 2015 at 7:54 AM ^
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August 24th, 2015 at 7:59 AM ^
I like the premise of seeing how society collapses during the progession of the apocalypse, but I'm forced to wonder how the writers distinguish this show from the original once the lights have gone out and the water has stopped running?
August 24th, 2015 at 8:00 AM ^
I'll watch again next week to see if the pilot was merely a one off example of poor writing and acting; at this point I'm not holding much hope that it will be anything but a bad spinoff.
August 24th, 2015 at 8:08 AM ^
I'm just wondering how, when everything completely falls apart, they're going to distinguish this show from TWD. As much as I love TWD, I'm hoping Fear The Walking Dead doesn't become the exact same show as its predecessor.
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August 24th, 2015 at 8:20 AM ^
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August 24th, 2015 at 8:38 AM ^
August 24th, 2015 at 8:52 AM ^
Good call. I didn't really consider that. I think the difference for me is the reaction to walkers. The Walking Dead pilot was great because you could see the horror from Rick's perspective. It felt so unsafe. I won't spoil the FTWD pilot for others, but that last scene was really rough. You are probably right though; it'll get better.
August 24th, 2015 at 9:53 AM ^
Agree wholeheartedly on the horror angle. The couple's reaction was almost comically bad, especially compared to Rick's reactions/demeanor.
"What the hell is going on?" "I have no idea." Honestly?
August 24th, 2015 at 8:32 AM ^
The Walking Dead?
The last episode I watched of last season was where Rick was beating the shit out of that chick's husband and Michone knocks the shit out of him. No idea why that was my last straw for last season but I'm finding myself not giving a shit anymore. I think there were 2 more episodes left of last season when I stopped. I don't care of you give me spoilers on the last ones.
I DVRed Fear the Walking Dead and I will probably give that a watch. As far as the original though, that one may have finally just gone away for me. Too much "nothing" happening.
August 24th, 2015 at 8:39 AM ^
August 24th, 2015 at 8:49 AM ^
Maybe I'll sit through those last 2 episodes with my finger on the 30 second skip ahead button and then give the first couple of this season's episodes a try before writing it off for good. Maybe it'll bring me back in.
August 24th, 2015 at 10:19 AM ^
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August 24th, 2015 at 11:52 AM ^
TWD is the only show that I watch that I go from hating to loving week to week. Last season is the perfect example. I really liked the beginning and ends of the season, but almost quit watching through the middle of the season because it kind of sucked. Tyreese's death was just bad. I liked his character alot, but felt nothing from his death.
August 24th, 2015 at 7:51 PM ^
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August 24th, 2015 at 8:43 AM ^
I really enjoyed it. I liked that we knew more about what was happening than the characters, kinda helped build suspense. I also like that the walkers are an important focus of the show. I feel like on TWD they are just background noise now, it's all about the living people. Which is fine, I still enjoy TWD, it's just nice to kinda hit the reset button and see people freak out about zombies again.
August 24th, 2015 at 8:55 AM ^
give FTWD a try as I am also curious about the beginnings of this thing.
August 24th, 2015 at 9:32 AM ^
Unfortunately, knowing what the monster looks like when watching the prequel robs us a little bit of the thrill of watching the story in chronological order.
Half the fun of Alien was the anticipation of waiting to see the monster. Same with the zombies.
Still a good watch, but we don't get that anticipatory thrill here.
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August 24th, 2015 at 8:37 PM ^
I am hoping they do get back to the graphic novels as from what I have heard (I haven't read them) the story line is pretty intense.
August 24th, 2015 at 9:09 AM ^
The setting of the show seems to exist in a universe where the word zombie doesn't exist. Not one single person who saw the video of the ZOMBIE being shot by cops even hinted it seemed like the guy was a zombie.
August 24th, 2015 at 9:43 AM ^
It's actually been explained by the show's producers that the concept of zombies don't exist in The Walking Dead universe. There is no George Romero film franchise or anything like that to draw upon to explain the phenomenon that is going on with the outset of the apocalypse, so the scene where Nick tries to describe what he saw rings a little more true in that context.
August 24th, 2015 at 9:19 AM ^
I thought it was horrible. I'll give it at least half a season but Jesus that was slow, the acting was bad and there felt like a ton of just wasted screen time. ambitious to take on 90 minutes for a preimere so that might have been hurting it.
August 24th, 2015 at 9:21 AM ^
I've been looking forward to this show as I've always thought the societal collapse would be the most interesting part of any zombie story.
The thing is, slow zombies are just not scary. It seems pretty clear that there are people (doctors and cops) who already understand that the dead are coming back to "life" and are attacking the living. Why not just get the President on TV and have him tell everyone about a new "virus" that is causing all this mess?
Explain what's happening and let everyone know that dead people need to have their brains destroyed. Sure, there will be some mass panic and crazy shit going on, but a crisis with slow moving zombies is entirely manageable.
The fast ones, ala 28 Days Later, are scary as fuck though.
August 24th, 2015 at 9:52 AM ^
One slow zombie isn't scary, true. 100 slow zombies are pretty scary. The thing that's cool as the omniscient 4th person observer is the knowledge that the clock is ticking on getting out of the city before things get dire. At some point, you're going to have the majority of the city turned into walkers, at which point, you simply can't jump into a car and drive away when there are millions of undead milling about.
August 24th, 2015 at 10:16 AM ^
they do a good job ratcheting up the tension. I'd like an almost day to day view of the end of civilization. Kim Dickens is a good actress, but I don't know any of the rest of the cast.
Maybe they can get Bill Murray to reprise his Zombieland role?
August 24th, 2015 at 10:44 AM ^
is Randy from The Wire.
August 24th, 2015 at 11:02 AM ^
I've seen Cliff Curtis (Travis) in "Whale Rider" and he played a pretty good Pablo Escobar in "Blow".
August 24th, 2015 at 2:20 PM ^
I pretty sure he played the terrorist bomber cop in Schwartzeneggers "Collateral Damage"
August 24th, 2015 at 10:06 AM ^
Or the zombies in World War Z. F that
August 24th, 2015 at 11:14 AM ^
The scary part of the Zombies isn't their individual bad assed-ness; its their contagion, their relentlessness, and their swarming.
The WWZ book did a great job of that.
I never liked the 'fast, super strong' Zombies. As far as Zombies of any kind makes sense they break the paradigm for me. You don't start out as an overweight out of shape 50 yr old and then turn him into a track athlete with enough strength to rip someone's spine out.
Jim
August 24th, 2015 at 3:57 PM ^
Well, I'm not sure there's any sense in trying to apply logic to zombie transformations. I tend to agree that massive slow moving masses of zombies are more terrifying than "fast, super strong" zombies as well. But it's certainly not because I find the transformation more believable. It just seems more terrorizing
August 26th, 2015 at 11:54 AM ^
but I do like a certain internal consistency. To me its like having an internal consistency to magic in a fantasy novel. If magic has no limits and costs nothing then the story is less believeable and weaker IMHO. But Tomayto - Tomahto.
August 24th, 2015 at 10:09 AM ^
August 24th, 2015 at 11:24 AM ^
Actually, I think the approach to Nick's character was pretty realistic and nuanced in a good way. Nick clearly is terrified about what he experienced and he's also not certain that he's not losing his mind. He seems to realize that if he just starts to rant and rave about what he saw that he'll just get locked away in rehab again, which is something he clearly doesn't want. Of course, he's also not sure if what he saw wasn't some bad trip which is why he seeks out Calvin.
The fact that Travis had to kind of pull the story of out of Nick is the only reason he goes to the church to check his story out for himself, because he seems pretty lucid and not like a raving lunatic.
August 24th, 2015 at 10:38 AM ^
I'm envisioning "Lord of the Flies" but with adults and zombies.
August 24th, 2015 at 10:44 AM ^
but the review I read reminded me of one of the POV's out of the WWZ Book; the lady who was describing her suburban life prior to the dead invading.
August 24th, 2015 at 12:53 PM ^
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August 24th, 2015 at 2:27 PM ^
Lori was a fickle douchebag. I was glad when they killed her off.
August 24th, 2015 at 4:10 PM ^
I agree with most here - the acting/writing left a lot to be desired. What made the intial season of TWD so compelling was that it was truly terrifying to watch - I've seen my share of horror films and I don't think any were as brutally suspenseful as the first few episodes of TWD. I think this was mainly attributable to the characters being portrayed so well (Andrew Lincoln mostly). Their expressions of horror were completely convincing to me.
I didn't get any of that in FTWD. The only character that has been exposed to a walker for the first 95% of the episode wasn't even convinced that he didn't hallucinate the whole thing, so of course this pilot lacked that terror associated with the first.
Of course, TWD has gotten so much worse over time. Maybe I'm just tiring of the same main characters, but the dialogue is so terribly dull, and most episodes now are so slow and dialogue-centric that I find myself nodding off during episodes. That would have been unthinkable early in the show. This isn't to say that issues faced when reconstructing post-apocalyptic society can't be very compelling, but rather that the acting, and in my opinion mainly the writing, haven't been as good as they need to be once the show is about something other than frantically killing zombies.
So I think there's potential for FTWD because the storyline could be so captivating if presented effectively. But I don't have much confidence based on the pilot