Fear the Walking Dead (TWD companion series)
 

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How much money and time was spent creating that awful title?

Too much and too much.

(But I'll still watch it.)

Me too...esp since its during the reg shows downtime

Should have gone the CSI route. Walking Dead: LA....OR The Real Walking Dead Housewives of NYC!!!

whats the point of this show really lol

To show the other half of the USA that set at the same time as Rick and his crew.

People love ****ing zombies and ill be watching. lol

I'm a walking dead addict ! Great show !

Stupid title. Can't wait

I'll give it a shot based on the writing talent behind it, but I'm not hanging on if it sucks just to hope to learn something about the flagship show in the midst of an inferior show [if that's how it turns out].

shitty name.

Couldn't they use the word Zombie for once?

In The Walking Dead universe the George Romero movies (Night of the Living Dead, Day of the Dead, etc.) and the the copy cat movies were never made. Therefore the concept of the dead coming back to life and eating the living was not part of the human lexicon.

Therefore the dead in TWD are not referred to as zombies.

Was there also no voodoo or creole culture? No zumbi, nzambi or sombra imported from West Africa to SE US and Haitian Isles?

Yes, but that use of the term zombie differs significantly from the way it is / would be used in TWD.

Raising the dead to control them vs. the dead rising and eating the living.

I thought voodoo zombies were people enthralled while living and they die once they have served their purpose. they just appear lifeless because they are empty headed automatons. is that wrong?

No, that's not wrong...that's Congress.


ba dum dum bing. Thanks folks, I'll be here all week. Try the salmon and don't forget to tip your servers.

Jumbie also used in Jamaica and the Caribbean.

I'd like to see how a group of rednecks handles a zombie apocallypse. Or better yet all the politicians in DC. Now that would be awesome!!

What're the odds ol' Daryl gets the spin off?

Wouldn't be surprised if he got something off.

They use the word zombie in the very first comic. Nice try though.

True, but I was taking the creator's word for it.

http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Zombies

So Kirkman is contradicting himself. Or just smoked too much weed and forgot what was written in the first comic book of the story. ;)

Hell yeah. First teaser.

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Love that this is looking like it's going to be the outbreak.

A little of column A...a little of column B...

LA, huh? Good news. I'm ****ing IN.

They previously announced it was in LA, but I'm stoked it looks like it's going to be at the front end of the virus. That's exciting.

So it's TWD's Caprica, basically?

They're referred to as zombies no less than 10 times before issue 75. They often say zombie in the comix...

Cliff Curtis? ****, im in!

i duinno about Caprica never seen it, but its goign on at roughly the same time as the Walking Dead, just in a different part of the USA

Robert Kirkman promises 'zero woods' on Fear the Walking Dead

So set in LA... it dawns on me, how long before we see un-decomposed silicone sitting like perfect orbs on a walker's chest?

Hurry up with this already...

He needs to reprise his role as smiley in this show.

No kidding. Has anyone seen a start date for this? All I've been able to find it "Coming this summer..."

Rumor is late August. I think it's only 6 or 8 episodes, and Kirkman has said it would lead right up to the next season of TWD. So if you do the math, late August is likely.

Math this early in the morning?!?! But rep to you good sir.

http://uproxx.com/tv/2015/06/fear-th...obert-kirkman/

Im expecting the hispanic dude from the first season to end up on this one!

Thanks, that seems significant.

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Love the Walking Dead - so I'll definitely be checking this out.

Pretty cool reaction teaser. I'll def be interested

How lazy is that..."Nick" lol

Looks badass.

Bad ass!

Much better trailer than the short one.

Looks like it will be pretty cool to see how all this started up.

Man, I'm pumped for this! Cool trailer.

Looks excellent!!! :thumb:

Can't wait!

Man, great trailer.

Way more excited for this than I am for S6 of TWD....

Hey guys... I know we're in the "same world" as the original series but I had a serious question.

Do you think newtons' third law will be applicable? I mean Christ, the shows been on the air for a while and I know their budget has to allow for guns that actually produce recoil for once?

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First few minutes of the pilot...

Looking better all the time. I've been watching the Sunday TWD marathons on AMC.

WHO MOWS THE GRASS!!!???

HOW DO THEY KEEP FINDING GASOLINE THAT HAS NOT BROKEN DOWN AFTER 2 YEARS?!?!?!

Bump to remind everyone that FTWD starts tonight at 8 central.


I just watched the movie "Sunshine" last night (which is excellent, BTW), and it had the main character for FTWD in it.

Excited.

Babes:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tUlHLRAroB.../s1600/deb.jpg

http://www.serienjunkies.de/fotos/fi...mbada-8773.jpg

Reviews are 'meh' but people will watch anyways because Zombies

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/72813

Won't last more than a couple episodes.

Haven't seen it yet. Waiting til' tomorrow to watch it with Lumpy. Is it seriously that bad?
I wasn't optimistic but I was a shade hopeful.

I could be wrong. Wouldn't be the first time. Just seems like they put 'Walking Dead' in the title for nothing more than easy recognition. I enjoy apocalypse and zombie themes to watch how survivors deal with the world crumbling around them, society collapsing and trying to survive through it all. This is some weird hybrid of daytime soap opera and 24 (Kiefer Sutherland) that is mixing like red wine and ice cream.

Let me know what you think. Maybe it's just starting slow.

My one complaint with the Walking Dead when it first came out was that we didn't get to see society fall apart and spread of the zombies.

FTWD is going to show us. The first episode was 95% character building. I will give it a chance.

Just a slow start. And the junkie character is really really unlikeable.

Ya would've been crazy to see more society going in the shitter.

It's fine. His is a stupid comment as there are more than 2 episodes filmed.

My gripe is the music. As it is for others.

Yeah they haven't went ape shit. But episode 2 look like shit about to fall so I'll wait until next week.

It's hard to tell off one episode. They didn't show much of what the show will be.

None of the characters are absurdly compelling yet, but they may be soon.

It certainly wasn't bad enough to quit watching.

I thought it was badass. I like seeing how the characters react to shit for the first time. It's going to be awesome when the shit really starts to hit the fan. Anarchy!!

It was pretty good, I thought. It's probably gonna take a bit for people to warm up to it because of the familiarity of the cast of TWD, but I thought it was a promising start.

Yeah, I liked it but I still want to know why when someone dies they turn into a Zombie... Where did the Virus come from? Is it in the food, airborne, military weapon gone bad?

I liked it. It was pretty much what I thought it would be. Not as good as Walking Dead but it was good and has potential.

Slow start, clunky foreshadowing ("nature always wins", chaos theory being taught), not a lot of personality in the main characters yet. Willing to give it a shot and see where this goes.

What's the over / under on the heroin addict son that seems to be a cross between two Johnny Depp characters, Edward Scissorhands & Capt. Jack Sparrow?

Lets hope they don't go this way but........He will cause a death of some major character or something cause he was too high or not reacting well to going cold turkey. This will cause him to re-think his drug using ways and then will turn his life around as all life gets turned upside down.

Or he is the type that keeps getting everyone in life or death situations but no one has the balls to just pull a Shane, pop him in the knee, and let the walkers take him.

They're also trying to be too cute with making the heroin addict a "living" zombie. It was really bad the way they had him shamble around after escaping the hospital. A little heavy handed.