We're excited over here!! However, I need to wait until my daughter gets off of work to see it. I hope it's a good series!

Slow starting out, but I like the fact that it goes into the lives and issues people are dealing with as they come to recognize the apocalypse upon them. Either way, it gives me something interesting to watch on Sunday nights until The Walking Dead S6 comes on.

It was pretty decent. Not loving some of the character development - Madison is Lori hate worthy.

I did love how the sounds of sirens and helicopters and general chaos is simply ignored by everyone as it's just another day in LA - something small town people could never relate to.

It makes for the perfect recipe for a very, very fast spread of the virus.

JustErin said:

It was pretty decent. Not loving some of the character development - Madison is Lori hate worthy.

I did love how the sounds of sirens and helicopters and general chaos is simply ignored by everyone as it's just another day in LA - something small town people could never relate to.

It makes for the perfect recipe for a very, very fast spread of the virus.

And the daughter annoys me too.

I did not see it yesterday.

Watching it now
I love how it feels like a horror movie at the start.
And anything with mystery and questions (unanswered) tends to be pretty good

Something about the abandoned church turned into a homeless/drug house culture made that opening great, not to mention that music/the sound almost industrial. perfect for this happening in a City

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2freaky4church1 said:

We watch too much tv. Take a walk.

Eh... it was so so, skewing toward lame.

I agree with Erin that it's clever how the onset of the pandemic is being taken relatively casually amid L.A.'s typical chaos. I found little else about the setting or narrative to be engaging.

As for the characters: Pity they ruined Calvin the drug dealer's pretty face. Him aside, only Ruben Blades' character was remotely sympathetic. All others could have died, as far as I'm concerned.

And all that said, yes, I'll be tuning into episode 2... because I'm a wuss.

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Lammastide said:

Eh... it was so so, skewing toward lame.

I agree with Erin that it's clever how the onset of the pandemic is being taken so casually amid L.A.'s typical chaos. I found little else about the setting or narrative to be engaging, though.

As for the characters: Pity they ruined Calvin the drug dealer's pretty face. Aside from him, only Ruben Blades' character was remotely sympathetic. All others could have died, as far as I'm concerned.

But I think that is the way it's supposed to be. That is everyday life. Life as usual. Seeing how things are before the Turn.
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Seeing how it's happening here and there. In a few other states. But as most people do, we brush things off as 'isolated' cases.
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I think if we saw the Walking Dead cast before the Turn we wouldn't like them much either lol
One thing I like about the Walking Dead were the flashback memories of how people were before the Turn. Just pieces here and there to show how they were.

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I think it's going to be good.

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The opening I loved. and I think the nighttime expressway situation was good.

I think the next episode is where it get's wild and chaotic

OldFriends4Sale said:

Lammastide said:

Eh... it was so so, skewing toward lame.

I agree with Erin that it's clever how the onset of the pandemic is being taken so casually amid L.A.'s typical chaos. I found little else about the setting or narrative to be engaging, though.

As for the characters: Pity they ruined Calvin the drug dealer's pretty face. Aside from him, only Ruben Blades' character was remotely sympathetic. All others could have died, as far as I'm concerned.

But I think that is the way it's supposed to be. That is everyday life. Life as usual. Seeing how things are before the Turn.
.
Seeing how it's happening here and there. In a few other states. But as most people do, we brush things off as 'isolated' cases.
.
I think if we saw the Walking Dead cast before the Turn we wouldn't like them much either lol
One thing I like about the Walking Dead were the flashback memories of how people were before the Turn. Just pieces here and there to show how they were.

.

I think it's going to be good.

.

The opening I loved. and I think the nighttime expressway situation was good.

I think the next episode is where it get's wild and chaotic

Interesting point about The Walking Dead characters probably being unlikeable prior to the pandemic. That's probably true. A zombie apocalypse would certainly force changes in folks' personalities -- at least making them more interesting. I guess I'll wait and see if that happens here when the $#@! really hits the fan.

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Lammastide said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

But I think that is the way it's supposed to be. That is everyday life. Life as usual. Seeing how things are before the Turn.
.
Seeing how it's happening here and there. In a few other states. But as most people do, we brush things off as 'isolated' cases.
.
I think if we saw the Walking Dead cast before the Turn we wouldn't like them much either lol
One thing I like about the Walking Dead were the flashback memories of how people were before the Turn. Just pieces here and there to show how they were.

.

I think it's going to be good.

.

The opening I loved. and I think the nighttime expressway situation was good.

I think the next episode is where it get's wild and chaotic

Interesting point about The Walking Dead characters probably being unlikeable prior to the pandemic. That's probably true. A zombie apocalypse would certainly force changes in folks' personalities -- at least making them more interesting. I guess I'll wait and see if that happens here when the $#@! really hits the fan.

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I agree, it all depends on the ingredients.
Carol (was original weak) I don't even think I 'pitied' her when first introduced. Just another face another person probably to be killed off. But she had her own TURN. I think it was @ the Farm? or prior to making a home at the prison? But I'm in love with her character now.

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My biggest need, is to see how civilization quickly changes, especially in a huge urban scene like LA

No areas with forests to hide, I very different landscape than Georgia

morningsong said:

Johnny Depps mini-me Nick wasn't too bad. Travis is kind of passive, or just trying very hard to please the new woman in his life, wonder if they going to elaborate on that Jack London thing, man vs. nature. I think he's going to turn vicious when they get in deeper. That warrior blood starts taking over. Why is Madison still wearing a wedding band? Still hooked on old hubby? Lots of long shots showing the vastness of LA, it is huge. Getting out is going to be hell. HelLA for real. To the Obama looking principal. I have a bleeding heart for pimple face kid, he ain't gonna make it, even though he pays attention.. I think I still prefer seeing a variety of families and how they are dealing with this. One thing learned from TWD, except in rare exceptions families don't survive in a group. Seeing various families you wonder how individuals will hook up down the line . Instead here you're guessing which 1 or 2 will survive, I know I'm not the only one.

I know this is all sci-fiFictional, but giving us the 'normal' life of LA before the Turn, I'm distressed at all the children and babies in this. That always get's me

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Like do we know what happened with Michonne's baby?

OldFriends4Sale said:

morningsong said:

Johnny Depps mini-me Nick wasn't too bad. Travis is kind of passive, or just trying very hard to please the new woman in his life, wonder if they going to elaborate on that Jack London thing, man vs. nature. I think he's going to turn vicious when they get in deeper. That warrior blood starts taking over. Why is Madison still wearing a wedding band? Still hooked on old hubby? Lots of long shots showing the vastness of LA, it is huge. Getting out is going to be hell. HelLA for real. To the Obama looking principal. I have a bleeding heart for pimple face kid, he ain't gonna make it, even though he pays attention.. I think I still prefer seeing a variety of families and how they are dealing with this. One thing learned from TWD, except in rare exceptions families don't survive in a group. Seeing various families you wonder how individuals will hook up down the line . Instead here you're guessing which 1 or 2 will survive, I know I'm not the only one.

I know this is all sci-fiFictional, but giving us the 'normal' life of LA before the Turn, I'm distressed at all the children and babies in this. That always get's me

.

Like do we know what happened with Michonne's baby?

Yeah, I noticed the 2 separate shots of the playground, once full of children, the next the lone homeless walker. We know TWD didn't pull punches even when it came to children. I wonder how far it'll go with this show.

Nielsen estimates that the 90-minute debut of “Fear the Walking Dead” became the No. 1-rated cable series launch on record with 10.1 million viewers, including 6.3 million adults 18-49. In total viewers, “Fear” surpasses TNT’s “Raising the Bar” (7.7 million in 2008) as top dog among cable premieres.

The previous record in the 18-49 demo was AMC’s “Better Call Saul” (4.4 million) earlier this year. In fact, AMC now has three of the top five cable launches of all time, with “Walking Dead” ranking fifth.

#fearthewalkingdead

Ha.

Where did the dead people and Gloria go to from the church?

They couldn't have gotten out on their own...

OldFriends4Sale said:

Where did the dead people and Gloria go to from the church?

They couldn't have gotten out on their own...

I wondered that myself. Can they climb through windows, squeeze past fence gaps? At this point we don't know what walkers are capable of doing beyond standing up and walking. Can they can work stairs? I'm not sure about that because we don't know how Gloria died or where.

morningsong said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Where did the dead people and Gloria go to from the church?

They couldn't have gotten out on their own...

I wondered that myself. Can they climb through windows, squeeze past fence gaps? At this point we don't know what walkers are capable of doing beyond standing up and walking. Can they can work stairs? I'm not sure about that because we don't know how Gloria died or where.

http://fearthewalkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Gloria

OldFriends4Sale said:

morningsong said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

http://fearthewalkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Gloria

We assume she died next to Nick or did she since she didn't start feasting on him, maybe she didn't die in that room, nobody really knows. Something happened she died she started eating others. We know there were some creative issues at the beginnings of TWD that's why the walkers could turn doorknobs then and not now. Maybe they'll stay with that concept but we didn't see walkers do anything complicated so its iffy.

I'm pretty sure there had to be an already opened loose door, an open wall or something leading to the outside. I just assumed the walkers all wondered out of the church into the street...only to show up again somewhere down the line.

morningsong said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

http://fearthewalkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Gloria

We assume she died next to Nick or did she since she didn't start feasting on him, maybe she didn't die in that room, nobody really knows. Something happened she died she started eating others. We know there were some creative issues at the beginnings of TWD that's why the walkers could turn doorknobs then and not now. Maybe they'll stay with that concept but we didn't see walkers do anything complicated so its iffy.

Yeah I think she must have died somewhere else, she would have automatically went after Nick.

missfee said:

morningsong said:

OldFriends4Sale said: We assume she died next to Nick or did she since she didn't start feasting on him, maybe she didn't die in that room, nobody really knows. Something happened she died she started eating others. We know there were some creative issues at the beginnings of TWD that's why the walkers could turn doorknobs then and not now. Maybe they'll stay with that concept but we didn't see walkers do anything complicated so its iffy.

I'm pretty sure there had to be an already opened loose door, an open wall or something leading to the outside. I just assumed the walkers all wondered out of the church into the street...only to show up again somewhere down the line.

Unless somehow (government/police etc) came across them and there is a secret investigation

OldFriends4Sale said:

missfee said:

I'm pretty sure there had to be an already opened loose door, an open wall or something leading to the outside. I just assumed the walkers all wondered out of the church into the street...only to show up again somewhere down the line.

Unless somehow (government/police etc) came across them and there is a secret investigation

You're going there. Who knows? As I think about it you'd think the hospital personal is aware something is very wrong, I mean people die there all the time, I sure the morgue has seen some strange stuff. Somebody somewhere is on the phone to the men in charge screaming about something. The police and the the paramedics seem clueless, since it looks like there's no protocals in place.

I just read, nothing official, that it's claimed that Gloria was patient zero for LA. Doesn't seem right to me. But maybe. If so, do you think something about the drugs they were using as oppose to the implied flu shot? The only person we saw reanimated after death was the drug dealer, which would explain the local authorities being unaware.

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morningsong said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Unless somehow (government/police etc) came across them and there is a secret investigation

You're going there. Who knows? As I think about it you'd think the hospital personal is aware something is very wrong, I mean people die there all the time, I sure the morgue has seen some strange stuff. Somebody somewhere is on the phone to the men in charge screaming about something. The police and the the paramedics seem clueless, since it looks like there's no protocals in place.

lol yes
I guess the thing is No One knows how this started. I don't think Fear the Walking Dead will reveal that either. I don't want it too. This is just going to show us how life was as this was starting.
Maybe the people turning have to be exposed to something...
Maybe the people in morgues and hospitals who have been there for a while were not exposed

etc

OldFriends4Sale said:

morningsong said:

You're going there. Who knows? As I think about it you'd think the hospital personal is aware something is very wrong, I mean people die there all the time, I sure the morgue has seen some strange stuff. Somebody somewhere is on the phone to the men in charge screaming about something. The police and the the paramedics seem clueless, since it looks like there's no protocals in place.

lol yes
I guess the thing is No One knows how this started. I don't think Fear the Walking Dead will reveal that either. I don't want it too. This is just going to show us how life was as this was starting.
Maybe the people turning have to be exposed to something...
Maybe the people in morgues and hospitals who have been there for a while were not exposed

etc

we don't know. But to me the Gloria as LAs patient zero sounds better and better to me. But then with TWD we know everybody is infected, everybody doesn't get flu shots, and definitely everybody doesn't use the same drugs, so again who knows. I'll have to watch the show again to get a timeline prespective.