r/FearTheWalkingDead

So I started watching FTWD around 2 months ago, right after I finished TWD, and finally just finished it a few days ago. I’ve read some of this sub as well to see what people think, and I can say with confidence that I’m honestly not surprised the general sentiment seems to basically be “season 1-3 good, 4-8 bad.” In fact, I can safely say that, for the most part, I agree. I tried to avoid any discussion of the show until I finished it so that I could form my own thoughts, and truthfully I didn’t think it was that bad, but from s4 onwards, things started to get a lot less realistic, and that definitely took me out of it. Here’s some key takeaways I had:

• The show absolutely takes a hit in season 4. There’s so many things left unexplained. First off, it takes a whole two episodes for the original crew to even show up again, which isn’t the worst thing ever, but it left me with more questions than answers; first off, Luciana is just magically back with Nick, Alicia and Strand when they find Al, John and Morgan? Unless I missed something like her saying where she was going before she left Nick in S3, that was never explained. However, Al and John are great characters, which is what I personally believe to be the main redeeming quality of the later seasons, but especially in S4.

• Seasons 5 and 8 in particular are genuinely terrible. S5 I felt was the hardest to get through overall, mainly due to one detail that damn near took me out of it entirely; Morgan happening to show up with this cast of characters is one thing, yeah, but Dwight??? and Sherry too??????? Sherry just so happened to go to the exact part of Texas that Morgan did, and Dwight followed… yeah okay sure I guess. Also we never found out what happened to all those kids they brought home on the plane, after Ginny took over the oil fields. (Side note by the way - I found Sherry to be genuinely annoying as fuck in this show, I don’t know if that sentiment is shared here or not but holy hell.)

• As for S8, the ending itself was alright I guess, and the idea of Troy coming back as the final main villain was admittedly interesting and unexpected (I thought he was dead), but oh my god, the whole PADRE storyline was so fucking awful. Also way more plot holes than any other season before… like what the fuck is up with Victor and that German speaking hotel community??? They seemed to have it really well off, and appeared to have literally no issues until Troy’s crew showed up; you’re seriously telling me they were really willing to give it all up and go live at the island with Madison, who most of them have just met, at what is essentially the blink of an eye? Also don’t even get me started on that last Morgan episode where he goes insane like he did in TWD after Duane died, but magically becomes fine again not long after that.

• As far as seasons 6 and 7 go, those were more of a mixed bag than all bad. The first half of S6 was solid, I really enjoyed Morgan’s character arc with him swapping his stick for the axe and that representing his willingness to kill. The whole episode “In Dreams” with Grace was terrible though, along with everything after it; it was way too confusing, and I genuinely didn’t know whether most of what happened in it had also happened in the real world or not (like Al going to the city to find Isabelle). Also the fact that the baby “absorbed all the bad shit in her body”(the “bad shit” in question being radiation) made zero sense, especially considering she herself was okay and ended up living long after that. As for S7, I will say I thought it was interesting to see Strand become the main villain, but that’s about it; the circumstances in which it happened are beyond stupid.

Overall, honestly not as bad as I was expecting, but I think the main issue was the show dragged on for way too long and took way too many twists and turns for most of what happened to feel meaningful. I think if you’re going to continue an already-established universe like TWD, you need to make the events that happen feel naturally occurring, which is not at ALL the case in the later seasons.

Anyways I’m curious what the rest of you guys think about the show, particularly in terms of specific details like the ones I mentioned. Feel free to reply with any thoughts!

(oh yeah side note btw… why the hell is it specifically called “Fear” The Walking Dead?? That was never explained, and the element of “fear” was never particularly emphasized)

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I finally finished. It took several weeks, and I'm a teacher on summer break!

This reminded me of a soap opera. I half expected evil twins to appear. But I love how people just popped back up that you thought were dead. I really wanted to journalist to return, camera in hand. I was hoping for a final jump with her showing her tapes in Alexandria. But I guess the last episode made sense.