Alot has happened but i'm still waiting for this series to pick up. We are far enough into the series to say that this group of actors is just not as compelling as the original Walking Dead. Maybe it's the weak dialogue or obvious character types. I can't quite put my finger on it, but i'm wanting them to get to Baja quick so hopefully a new character or interesting twist will give the series a jolt.
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Can't there ever be a walking dead run by smart people. Do the people ultimately running things always have to be dumb and so stupid things. Just once it'd be really nice to see a group of smart people handle this situation. We probably don't because they've all hidden themselves in their bunkers already or were offed by the stupid actions of dumb people like most of these characters.
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Amen to that. The dumbness of the characters is growing tiresome.
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It seems the plane crash / castaway character Alex / Charlie will be a returning character. In spite of Strand's best efforts, actress Michelle Ang is listed as appearing in 13 episodes in 2016. Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3743822/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
Good recap. And, easier to write about, because the show has gotten much , much better. Almost astonishingly, the characters are interesting, and the plot thickens. It didn't seem to promising in the season opener. Now, I am psyched for what comes
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I'm waiting for Alex to come back for revenge in later seasons (if they make it that far). This was, so far, my favorite episode...and Strand has a mutiny coming, I'm almost positive.
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And do we know their fate? Will they join the main group? Or just stay and live elsewhere.. these two are the most interesting group I found in whole series..
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These 2 episodes are much better to me than the original run. Maybe, the characters are getting a little more fleshed out. The stories, particularly last week's, are better than the somehow claustrophobic 'riot' they were involved in in LA.
This show has creeped me out/scared me more in these two episodes than TWD ever has. I didn't mind not being scared and am unsure if I like it. But, it is a different response to zombies, which are pretty silly as horror concepts go. They're so mindless as opposed to the intentional acts of a vampire.
I can't wait to see what happens. But, I hope the show runners already have an ending in mind. We've had enough of too long serials.
This show has creeped me out/scared me more in these two episodes than TWD ever has. I didn't mind not being scared and am unsure if I like it. But, it is a different response to zombies, which are pretty silly as horror concepts go. They're so mindless as opposed to the intentional acts of a vampire.
I can't wait to see what happens. But, I hope the show runners already have an ending in mind. We've had enough of too long serials.
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I liked it too.
I don't mind the slower pace, we do have 15 episodes.
I don't mind the slower pace, we do have 15 episodes.
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"South of Rosarito" isn't too promising, unless it's very far South. That part of Baja Mexico is pretty densely populated. Way down the Baja peninsula might be promising in some respects - limited roads and people, desert landscapes so good visibility. But in either location, you are in a desert environment, which is not promising for subsistence.
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We should fear "Fear The Walking Dead" because the show just keeps getting worse. The plot is unimaginative and implausible -- wow! -- doIng both at the same time is quite a feat. The acting is comically bad maybe because the dialogue is so awful. And there is zero chemistry. Travis and Madison were a joke in bed -- they looked as uninterested and incompatible as could be. I was looking forward to a prequel that showed the slow and insidious emergence of the zombie virus, but instead this show spent only a few episodes on that and then jumped off the cliff right into the apocalypse. Now they're stuck redoing everything TWD did with none of the suspense and storytelling skill. The only mildly interesting thing in this episode was the crab infested walker, but Nick sliding into the pit was beyond contrived. Maybe the Alex story will go somewhere, but not bringing her onto the boat was also ridiculously contrived. She had the best line of the episode: "are we seriously debating this?" Time for us to follow her lead. There's just no debating how bad this show is.
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I liked it.
I'm not always the quickest on picking up symbolism. But I think it when Strand chopped the line that was towing the plane wreck victims it may have symbolyzed that he wanted to sever ties with them. I was hoping Alex, the Asian woman, would join the crew on the boat but that seems unlikely now.
The half-buried crab man zombie seemed a pretty good metaphorical image of the snake eating it's tale or a circular food chain. At least until Nick spoiled the picnic, he was eating crabs while other crabs were eating him.
Can we discuss what was shown in previews here? Spoilerish upcoming news.
On the Talking Dead preview is seems like they come ashore somewhere where there's plenty of military presence or at least folks able to fly helicopters at night. Nick was trying out his Seal team commando impersonation by swimming ashore dragging a bundle through the night time surf.
I'm not always the quickest on picking up symbolism. But I think it when Strand chopped the line that was towing the plane wreck victims it may have symbolyzed that he wanted to sever ties with them. I was hoping Alex, the Asian woman, would join the crew on the boat but that seems unlikely now.
The half-buried crab man zombie seemed a pretty good metaphorical image of the snake eating it's tale or a circular food chain. At least until Nick spoiled the picnic, he was eating crabs while other crabs were eating him.
Can we discuss what was shown in previews here? Spoilerish upcoming news.
On the Talking Dead preview is seems like they come ashore somewhere where there's plenty of military presence or at least folks able to fly helicopters at night. Nick was trying out his Seal team commando impersonation by swimming ashore dragging a bundle through the night time surf.
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I thought this was another great self-encapsulated episode. Working in the flight 462 plotline was excellently done, and the New Zealander playing Alex was terrific. I'm hoping she's not done for too, although she sure seems doomed now. And while Strand was just chopping her loose on general principles, I can't help feel that he's right; after Alex dispatched two of the unbitten living, Buster and Claude, to protect a kid who is definitely in need of mercy-killing, she doesn't seem trustworthy.
The plane crash site was really well put-together too, and the notion of going to get supplies from it made sense. I think Chris is really the most troubled of the group but he's filling the same role as Carl did in TWD really; the kid for whom the danger isn't that evident, who still acts like a kid and gets into trouble. And all horror has people who naively make dumb moves ("I'm annoyed at you so I'm going to walk off into the forest alone, regardless of axe murdering cannibals"), and this is irritating but accurate, lots of people are naïve and not too bright.
Looking forward to more, and I like the subtleties that keep coming up, like Salazar getting really upset by going through dead peoples' luggage, presumably because he's seen something like it before in El Salvador.
The plane crash site was really well put-together too, and the notion of going to get supplies from it made sense. I think Chris is really the most troubled of the group but he's filling the same role as Carl did in TWD really; the kid for whom the danger isn't that evident, who still acts like a kid and gets into trouble. And all horror has people who naively make dumb moves ("I'm annoyed at you so I'm going to walk off into the forest alone, regardless of axe murdering cannibals"), and this is irritating but accurate, lots of people are naïve and not too bright.
Looking forward to more, and I like the subtleties that keep coming up, like Salazar getting really upset by going through dead peoples' luggage, presumably because he's seen something like it before in El Salvador.
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No mention of the zombie being dined on by crabs. Super gross...
Will those crabs come back to life as the Crawling Dead?
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I thought it was a really good touch that they were Ghost crabs.
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Good article, just one problem - the boy from the plane is Jake. Charlie was actress Michelle Ang's character, whose name suddenl became "Alex" in this episode. Not sure why, unless "Charlie" was simply a placeholder.
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Correction needed: the boy who is burned, his name is not Charlie. His name is Jake.
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The boy's name is Jake, not Charlie. Weirdly, the woman appeared to be named Charlie in the Flight 462 mini-series but is now clearly named Alex.
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Nice synopsis. But actually Charlie and Alex are the same person. Charlie/Alex are one and the same - Asian kickass. Jake is the badly burned boy that she saves and is stranded in the life boat with at the conclusion of this episode.
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"Where did everyone else go?" - Well, Alex killed them when they both suggested the mortally injured Jake was a liability. Other reviews have called her "compassionate" - hmm, kill two perfectly able people to save one other who has no hope of getting treatment or surviving his burns and will inevitably die? There is some kind of interesting agenda here, but compassion is not it. Hope we see more of Alex.
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Cutting the raft loose seemed unecessary. I'm glad the "children" appear to have finally wised up to the dangers around them. There seem to be a lot more "whole" bodies from the plane crash than one would expect from a crash that dropped parts into the water and on land. About Nick smearing blood over his face and body does that mean he's assumed whatever is causing the undead is not blood borne so he won't catch it by doing that? Overall I think this episode was excellent.
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Dear Mitch,
I think, while they didn't show it, when the second zombie fell in on top of Nick after he stabbed the crabby one, it was on top of him, and he had to stab it too. So the blood from the second one just naturally went all over him, and I thought the scene where he realized its camouflaging power was impressive.
I think, while they didn't show it, when the second zombie fell in on top of Nick after he stabbed the crabby one, it was on top of him, and he had to stab it too. So the blood from the second one just naturally went all over him, and I thought the scene where he realized its camouflaging power was impressive.
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Ah, ok. That makes sense.
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Where is a dumpster when you need one?
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Just not compelling anymore. Maybe years of awful characters on the main show exhausted me for this one. Just a boat load of annoying people.
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i quit watching the show last episode, can't stand the characters, i don't identify with any of them, terrible acting, poor choices, people i would never hang with i th this life or the death, i would pay so money to see them get eaten by the zombies. i just fear the unwalking dead won't die
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Alicia's quote, “All these years, never knowing where you were, what you were doing. Now here you are,” and Nick's reply, “I was always here. I was just hungry,” sound a lot like quotes from a book/play/movie. I'd bet dollars to donuts it is.
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