M4C Official Thread: Fear The Walking Dead

[jpmuscle]

BBossman's already posted a link to info for it in the official walking dead thread:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...515-story.html


Honestly don't have high hopes for it based on the info from the link above. I see it lasting a season or two, where they (the writers) will deperately try to inject some actual action into yet another family (melo)drama tv series to avoid cancellation like many other series' before it.

I think my main problem with it, as it has been with many series' before it, is that they seem to purposely ignore the fantastic background available to them, actually creating something else entirely almost to spite it.

Time will tell and hopefully I'm wrong, but then again, I am still waiting for Stargate Universe to make a comeback.

Did you watch any of Ascension on SyFy before it was canceled? Could have been the next stargateish mini-series with the direction the seemed to be taking it. I loved it. But of course they fvcked it up and canceled it. It's on Netflix now.

[Caeser25]

Hey, it may/may not have ALL OF the like-ability of Walking dead...but the trailer does look promising...and I can already about garan-damn-tee its gonna be better than ANY of the God awful reality shows or so called "shit-coms" that are on now. My tv stays off for weeks, as of last week its been two months since it was on, NOT counting the one DVD I watched.
Lets give it a chance.

Agreed. TV sucks.

[sevenhelmet]

Agreed. TV sucks.

Yup, that's why I ditched cable. Hopefully FTWD will be available on iTunes, Hulu, or Netflix.

[BBossman]

Yup, that's why I ditched cable. Hopefully FTWD will be available on iTunes, Hulu, or Netflix.

From the AMC FTWD website...

"Fear the Walking Dead premieres on AMC August 2015 and will be available the next day on VOD, amc.com, iTunes, Amazon, Google Play and Xbox".

http://www.amc.com/shows/fear-the-walking-dead

[THCDDM4]

I'm looking forward to this show; hope it's not a dud.

[BBossman]

[wildcard600]

Lets just hope they dont have the people from S2-3 of the walking dead writing the episodes.

[Firefly]

I have no faith in it. They could very easily rebolster the budget for the regular Walking Dead. I sort of wish they had a Georgia consultant. Guys were walking around way underequipped for what GA has to offer.

I'll still watch the new ep just cause and to confirm for myself of what it is: Part remake/part 'civilized' re-telling.

More minorities, more LGBT, more uptown types. People who try to "think" their way way out. "Normal" people. That one lady had an O/U that hadn't been dragged out in ages. I'm sure they won't be stuck with bullet buttons or whatnot. It'll be easier to retain shock value if more people die relying on Federal Aid.
Plus without an all redneck cast it'll be 'easier' to explore crap nobody cares about with a zombie popped in there on occasion.

Remember, these types of people thought it was unfair for greedo not to get a chance to shoot, were going to be damned if they'd allow a show about a space Confederate trying to live outside an oppressive, overbearing system to continue to air, but enjoy your endless seasons of Teen Mom

[Shao]

A part of me is skeptical, thinking that AMC is just trying to milk the franchise for all it's worth (CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, CSI: WallaWalla). The other part is hopeful. As others have pointed out, it will be interesting to see the zombie outbreak as it occurred instead of starting from Rick's coma. I just hope that the effort put into the show doesn't detract from the quality of the main series. I'm giddy like a school girl for the first episode though...

[Averageman]

A part of me is skeptical, thinking that AMC is just trying to milk the franchise for all it's worth (CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, CSI: WallaWalla). The other part is hopeful. As others have pointed out, it will be interesting to see the zombie outbreak as it occurred instead of starting from Rick's coma. I just hope that the effort put into the show doesn't detract from the quality of the main series. I'm giddy like a school girl for the first episode though...

We're counting down the days.
As far as milking the franchise, I think if they took the two series and ran them to a logical near conclusion and then merged them for a final two seasons, that might be as good as the story could get.