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Old 09-20-15, 06:57 PM
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Fear the Walking Dead (S1E04) -- "Not Fade Away" -- 9/20/15




Madison and Travis see different sides of the National Guard's occupation in their neighborhood; the family tries to adapt to the new world.

Episode 4 of 6
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Re: Fear the Walking Dead (S1E04) -- "Not Fade Away" -- 9/20/15

I don't think the streets would be that empty after nine days.
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Re: Fear the Walking Dead (S1E04) -- "Not Fade Away" -- 9/20/15

Very boring episode
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Re: Fear the Walking Dead (S1E04) -- "Not Fade Away" -- 9/20/15

The army is now killing everyone who posses any sort of risk.
A druggy being very easy to overdose and die.
A depressed man who might kill himself.
An old woman with a hurt foot.
Anyone outside the quarantine zone.

Doesn't matter if you're zombie or human, or even sick. You're dead.

The army is going around murdering everyone outside the fence.

Probably the most interesting episode of the series so far.

Junkie-boy still junkie-boy.
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Re: Fear the Walking Dead (S1E04) -- "Not Fade Away" -- 9/20/15

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Very boring episode
This episode was so sour and depressing it could have been on HBO.
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Re: Fear the Walking Dead (S1E04) -- "Not Fade Away" -- 9/20/15

Fear the Walking Dead

There was nothing to fear and there weren't any walking dead
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Re: Fear the Walking Dead (S1E04) -- "Not Fade Away" -- 9/20/15

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Fear the Walking Dead

There was nothing to fear and there weren't any walking dead
The Army is obviously Fearing the Walking Dead; hence why they're killing everyone.
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Re: Fear the Walking Dead (S1E04) -- "Not Fade Away" -- 9/20/15

My decision to drop this show seems to already be paying dividends given the comments. It will be interesting to see how AMC retools this boring show in its second season.
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Re: Fear the Walking Dead (S1E04) -- "Not Fade Away" -- 9/20/15

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My decision to drop this show seems to already be paying dividends given the comments. It will be interesting to see how AMC retools this boring show in its second season.
Please continue to update us on your decision not to watch.
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Re: Fear the Walking Dead (S1E04) -- "Not Fade Away" -- 9/20/15

I'm confused. I thought this show was going to be different than the other show because it was going to show you how the actual outbreak happened and how it was during that time. The interesting, and more selling point was that we'd see L.A. turn.

Sooooooo.. how is it that we already are 8-9 days into this thing and well past the point of, you know... showing us how it went to shit. The goddamn stupid "missing" fliers all over the wall just was an eye roll.

How about not skipping why people started putting them up and the chaos of the city.


Just feels like we're already past the premise of the show and are now just walking dead boring sub plot to save money in the budget.
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Re: Fear the Walking Dead (S1E04) -- "Not Fade Away" -- 9/20/15

I was a little confused. Why did Dr. Exner and the soldiers abduct Nick and make a big stink about it? Especially after decking him when he tried to run. I know they took Griselda because her foot is messed up and she needed surgery. Do they think he could be infected? I know in the previous scene he told her of his drug addiction and needing Methodone.

I didn't think the episode was as boring as some of you. They changed the dynamic a little incorporating the soldiers and creating a safe zone from the outside, which I thought was interesting.

I liked Madison smacking the shit out of Nick.
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Re: Fear the Walking Dead (S1E04) -- "Not Fade Away" -- 9/20/15

I still don't understand why everybody in this execrable family blames Travis for everything. What is he supposed to do, get himself killed? It wouldn't have stopped the soldiers from taking Nick and likely would have got other people shot in the process.
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Re: Fear the Walking Dead (S1E04) -- "Not Fade Away" -- 9/20/15

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I was a little confused. Why did Dr. Exner and the soldiers abduct Nick and make a big stink about it?
To get rid of a potential problem.
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Re: Fear the Walking Dead (S1E04) -- "Not Fade Away" -- 9/20/15

I would rather deal with zombies than how this Army is acting.
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Re: Fear the Walking Dead (S1E04) -- "Not Fade Away" -- 9/20/15

Originally Posted by JZ1276
Very boring episode
Agreed. The thing that made no sense was trying to break out of the fences to walk a couple of miles to find out why someone was signaling from a house outside the safe zone. Why risk your neck for that?

I'm usually on board with most episodes, but last night seemed like a snoozer to me.
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Re: Fear the Walking Dead (S1E04) -- "Not Fade Away" -- 9/20/15

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I would rather deal with zombies than how this Army is acting.
Agreed. The whole "fear the living" theme is coming into play a little too early in my opinion.
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Re: Fear the Walking Dead (S1E04) -- "Not Fade Away" -- 9/20/15

The only reason I am sticking with this show is because its only 6 episodes, but I honestly was going to bail last night as that a terrible episode.
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Re: Fear the Walking Dead (S1E04) -- "Not Fade Away" -- 9/20/15

Taking bets, the nurse will somehow save the druggie when they get to the hospital. And his mom will be so grateful that she will forgive her for putting him in that position in the first place by telling the DR. about his drug problems in the first place.
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Re: Fear the Walking Dead (S1E04) -- "Not Fade Away" -- 9/20/15

Originally Posted by coli
The only reason I am sticking with this show is because its only 6 episodes, but I honestly was going to bail last night as that a terrible episode.
I dropped after last week... that said, I'll continue to monitor these threads for the ensuing hilarity -- much like Under the Dome and Revolution.
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Re: Fear the Walking Dead (S1E04) -- "Not Fade Away" -- 9/20/15

I just want to see that army guy get chomped on.
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Re: Fear the Walking Dead (S1E04) -- "Not Fade Away" -- 9/20/15

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Spoiler:

Spoiler:
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Re: Fear the Walking Dead (S1E04) -- "Not Fade Away" -- 9/20/15

Which is bound to happen as they have to move the story along, but what gets me is that shooting noise travels pretty easily. So skipping those 9 days just seems like we missed a lot of what we actually want to see and just got stuck with the boring shit of this one awful family and their cranky house guest.

Why didn't the soldiers, in those eight days, already take the mother away? They seemed pretty fast to move on anyone who could potentially be a risk.

What a fucking snooze fest.
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Re: Fear the Walking Dead (S1E04) -- "Not Fade Away" -- 9/20/15

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Which is bound to happen as they have to move the story along, but what gets me is that shooting noise travels pretty easily. So skipping those 9 days just seems like we missed a lot of what we actually want to see and just got stuck with the boring shit of this one awful family and their cranky house guest.

Why didn't the soldiers, in those eight days, already take the mother away? They seemed pretty fast to move on anyone who could potentially be a risk.

What a fucking snooze fest.
Did they not notice all the people getting shot just a couple of blocks away? No character commented on that in the whole episode before the bodies were found especially in the opening scene with the kid making his narrated video of the state of the town. Everything seems really disjointed. I really would have loved to have seen the chaos of the past 9 days unfolding.
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Re: Fear the Walking Dead (S1E04) -- "Not Fade Away" -- 9/20/15

What do you want to bet we never see or hear anything else about the house that was flashing a signal.
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Re: Fear the Walking Dead (S1E04) -- "Not Fade Away" -- 9/20/15

Just awful in every way. LA has more than 7 million people and the streets are just empty after 9 days? What's going on around that fence?? No zombies coming up to it, no one trying to get in? Rick rides his horse into Atlanta and there's thousands of zombies everywhere.


Also its way way too early for a military leader to be acting like The Governor.


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