41. "That was pissing me off." In response to In response to 38 Wed Sep-02-15 12:34 PM by wallysmith
It's not like her kids are five years old, fucking just tell them already.
Weird how there's a super self-aware character (of the zombie apocalypse) but then they tease out not telling other characters, like dude's ex-wife or the girl's kids.
With that said, I've really enjoyed the first two episodes so far. The angst shit is played, but until we go deeper into the zombie tension, it makes sense they need to manufacture some other sort of tension to take its place for now. If the show takes off (and early ratings look like it will), then there's plenty of room to let the zombies drive the drama, and less need for the interpersonal conflict. I mean, look at how the first show started, we've got all the standard archetypes: the wife beater, the love triangle, the bad ass chick, the wise old man, etc. If you want to knock Fear for tired archetypes you need to acknowledge TWD for leaning on them early on too.
And I really dig the social unrest angle they've adopted for the first two episodes. It's topical and it feels like it could be something straight out of World War Z (basically the zombie bible). And I honestly have no issues if they "borrowed" liberally from that book; Fear can fill in the gaps that TWD and the terrible World War Z movie never could.