Best ep so far ... 9

 

This was a virtually useless episode for me, too, so maybe I can answer a little bit.

I despised this episode. Gratuitous torture is disgusting. Nihilistic destruction is nothing I want to see. The library massacre would have been much more enlightening if we had seen inside, to get a concrete observation of "when it goes, it goes fast."

"Interesting" for me will be when people start pulling together to survive. I've already given up on ever seeing what would have been the most interesting thing of all: a cascading view of how society stopped working, what group of imbeciles shut off communications, etc.

P.S. Forgot to give it a rating. Um, 1. That's generous.

 

You don't want torture, destruction, massacre but you're watching a show about a zombie apocalypse.

You're either the most naive fan of zombie fiction or just wanting to be disappointed.

Which is it?

 

LOL I want the zombies to be the ones who dish out the horror, not the humans. LOL LOL, seriously, I understand what you're saying, but I scared the cat laughing so suddenly.

 

It's a very old trope. "Humans are the real monsters"

Zombies only do what's natural to them. Humans choose to be evil.

 

Good point.

But, as much as I enjoy TWD and the horrors they face down from both zombies and sociopaths, I will still be traumatized instead of entertained by FTWD if it harps on an excess of human evils. That is just wearying.

 

The walking dead had governor zombie thunder dome and cannibals who lured innocent people in and ate them.

But Daniel torturing a guy for information is too much.

 

Here is what is interesting to me. In the first episode of TWD by the end of the night in the house I really cared about Morgan and his son and his wife who was already as zombie. Why? Because the characters were engaging and believable and interesting. These characters have not been any of that.

 

8.5

Solid character work all around

 

I give it a 9. I enjoyed the whole episode - from the introduction of Strand to seeing the darker side of Daniel. Daniel using torture was disturbing. Loved Nick's facial expression when Strand told him he's the gold standard and not to sell himself short in that regard.
Bummed we only get one more episode but at least we'll have TWD ( super excited to see Morgan!)

 

Yep. Heroes need villains, but I watch TWD for the heroes. I want to leave the vicious mayhem to the zombies, not a resident sadist. A few have suggested maybe this survival group is going to be heavy on sociopathy. I hope not.... I wouldn't be able to root for their survival anymore than I rooted for the Governor or the Termanites.

 

It's almost a reverse dynamic ( at this point) from TWD. In TWD, the immediate threat were the walkers before they moved on to meeting up with unsavory humans. It seems the opposite in Fear, where they are dealing with shady humans before they have to take on a herd of skinbags. Just a random thought.
I think the common theme is that good and bad are subjective in the ZA