I like the show. Not as much as TWD, but its good. I could see society going down just like this if something similar happened. TWD has always been about people in a zombie infested world, rather than about zombies too. Merle, the Gov, the canibals, the claimers... they were all scarier than the zombies.
The most interesting thing about fear the walking dead was the idea that people assumed police brutality when they first started putting down walkers. That strikes me as a realistic reaction.
FTWD certainly picked up the pace for the season finale.
(10-04-2015 10:31 PM)topper1296 Wrote: [ -> ]FTWD certainly picked up the pace for the season finale.
Completely agree. That episode was by far the best episode of the show. If at least half of the next season can be as good as the finale then the show will make it.
The way the guy in the cell with Nick acted I thought he was some sort of con man or something. What did he do to get a house like that right on the water and his yacht?
I really liked the way the final show played out. We finally got real emotion from a few of the cast and with the zombies it's clearly they are more fresh and harder to kill. I would have done the same...head to the coast. If it's the end as we know it there would have been boats for the taken and fuel wouldn't have been a problem. Also less dead people to become zombies at this point.
I know it wouldn't have made great TV but I never could understand why Rick and his smaller group never took a boat to a island in the middle of a lake for some down time. Or just took to the river in a big boat. If I was on a coast I hit the water only coming to shore in smaller cities (less dead) get what I need and go back out. With a yacht the size shown you have no limits, other than fuel. With that ports should have enough to last for a very long time and easy to get in take what you need and move on.
(10-05-2015 01:19 PM)WKUYG Wrote: [ -> ]I really liked the way the final show played out. We finally got real emotion from a few of the cast and with the zombies it's clearly they are more fresh and harder to kill. I would have done the same...head to the coast. If it's the end as we know it there would have been boats for the taken and fuel wouldn't have been a problem. Also less dead people to become zombies at this point.
I know it wouldn't have made great TV but I never could understand why Rick and his smaller group never took a boat to a island in the middle of a lake for some down time. Or just took to the river in a big boat. If I was on a coast I hit the water only coming to shore in smaller cities (less dead) get what I need and go back out. With a yacht the size shown you have no limits, other than fuel. With that ports should have enough to last for a very long time and easy to get in take what you need and move on.
This has been my biggest beef. GA is on the coast and there are plenty of islands along the east coast to settle. Michionne even mentioned it is season three with Andrea. I would have hit the coast and stayed for years until things settled. Of course then we wouldn't have much of a show.
(10-05-2015 06:59 AM)benny_t Wrote: [ -> ]What did he do to get a house like that right on the water and his yacht?
Is that his yacht? I thought he just saw it anchored out by his house.
(10-05-2015 06:59 AM)benny_t Wrote: [ -> ] (10-04-2015 10:31 PM)topper1296 Wrote: [ -> ]FTWD certainly picked up the pace for the season finale.
Completely agree. That episode was by far the best episode of the show. If at least half of the next season can be as good as the finale then the show will make it.
The way the guy in the cell with Nick acted I thought he was some sort of con man or something. What did he do to get a house like that right on the water and his yacht?
Lawyer, I think. So, con man fits.
(10-05-2015 02:16 PM)Otacon Wrote: [ -> ] (10-05-2015 06:59 AM)benny_t Wrote: [ -> ]What did he do to get a house like that right on the water and his yacht?
Is that his yacht? I thought he just saw it anchored out by his house.
He was calling it Abigail so I assumed it was his.
Bet he was a broker. Investments, S and B. He mentioned he could sell anything.
I kept thinking he was either some big Realtor for the Stars or an uber wealthy luxury car salesman.
OK....thoughts on next season.
The "living on a yacht" story arc would get fairly boring very quickly unless they introduce some new concepts into this series. You gotta think that there are many folks who also thought about living on boats/ships at sea during the collapse. If so, there could be lots of other boats out there. There could be pirates, raiders, etc. with regular incursions onto land for supplies. I hope they get creative and really try to separate this show from TWD. Living on the coast, or off the coast, dry climate instead of a humid climate. No more endless forests. Urban verses rural.
There's the setting. As to the current characters....ugh. The producers have their work ahead of them turning this group of dullards into interesting, deep, characters that we can embrace.
I'm sticking with lawyer. I have already erased my recording of the season finale, but Strand said something at the house that made me think lawyer.
If you have a boat that big, why not head for South America or new Zealand? If LA is the epicenter for this outbreak, get the heck outta there. Or is this happening all over the world? Are dead people on Easter Island biting people?
I think they will head up the coast, lose the boat to pirates, and start trekking east. They will meet Rick's bunch in St. Louis and form a new government.
Well, maybe not.
For a boat that big to make it to South America on one tank of fuel? Its gonna be a stretch just to get to Mexico.
(10-06-2015 08:04 AM)pilot172000 Wrote: [ -> ]For a boat that big to make it to South America on one tank of fuel? Its gonna be a stretch just to get to Mexico.
So go to Santa Catalina instead. But I never envisioned a one-tank, non stop trip anywhere. They would have to find fuel, yes, as well as fresh water. food, medicines, etc. This would entail stops. But where does the infection end? Can they go 300 miles south and put into a port with no walkers? or is the whole world erupting at once?
I've never felt it originated in LA...or at least that's not what I've taken from the storyline so far.
On that note...
We live in a world of 24 hour Cable News, the Internet, etc. and all we've gotten from this show is the pimple kid talking about stuff he saw on the Internet and the social media sharing video of the one scene of the Walker surrounded by police and EMT's etc.
It doesn't appear any of these folks turn on the radio, watch TV (when the power was on), surf the web on their smartphone, etc. I'd be laser focused on searching for information about this if I were in this situation.
After the CDC stuff in Atlanta, I always got the feeling it originated there but of course that's just conjecture. It doesn't matter where it came from, It took us over 500 years to colonize the Western Hemisphere, its gonna take a few months for the virus to spread. WKU Apollo is right, there would be pockets of smart people who have hunkered down away from the epidemic.
Why not just stay off the coast of California? Pick a major port...maybe San Diego and anchor 1/2 mile off the coast. Have a small boat onboard the yacht to ferry yourselves to and from the shore. I would venture there would be a lifetime amount of supplies in one of those big cities just waiting to be 'rescued'. Or how about an island base such as Alcatraz?
(10-06-2015 09:35 AM)Otacon Wrote: [ -> ]Why not just stay off the coast of California? Pick a major port...maybe San Diego and anchor 1/2 mile off the coast. Have a small boat onboard the yacht to ferry yourselves to and from the shore. I would venture there would be a lifetime amount of supplies in one of those big cities just waiting to be 'rescued'. Or how about an island base such as Alcatraz?
The risk would eventually out way the gain. In a survival situation like this, you would seek the most fertile and least populated space. I would Bump up the coast until I hit Oregon then trek up a river until I hit rural Oregon or Eastern Idaho. The goal would be to get away from people period. The FTWD folks aren't that bright IMHO.
We are looking at this from a already know point of view. But if this were to actually happen and none of us having any insight to what was really going on each of us would be all over the place and not knowing what to do.
first stage we all would trust the government would take control of the problem and fix it. Even if you didn't trust the government you would still be in the same boat as the ones who did. No one wants to believe life as you know it is over. People like the old man that's been in a world where the government is evil and oppressing will have those same feeling but little power to do anything but tell their story...as we saw in this show.
After things gets to the point of no return and we feel we are on our own and while we all think we would know what to do...we wouldn't have a clue. At this point you are cut off you don't know what is going on the next city over much less the next state. But without this information...each of us would hold out hope that 50 to 100 miles away...it's better. We would hold out for that till we reached the point that we know this is our life and from that point on....
we get to where Rick and his group got to after leaving the farm
Not this guy. I have worked for the government and they don't know squat. Here in North LA folks arent gonna sit back and let the Government take care of it because we don't trust them. I totally understand the point of view that we wouldn't be able to compute the inevitable end, but there are millions of folks prepping for it everyday. Just go to the grocery store and see all the Doomsday prepper or gun mags.