Fear the Walking Dead Discussion Thread: Season 1 Episode 5 [SPOILER Warning]

There is no anti-gun message in "Fear" and I wish people stop saying "I hate that the characters seem liberal" when it clearly is showing characters being weak and naive (which I guess we all identify with liberalism) at first and transforming into survivors using so called conservative principals.

With all that said, I have a lot of negatives about "Fear" as a TV show: A) For a short season TV series it was slow and boring wasting limited time available for "character building" scenes that did not build any character. B) The staging of the show is sloppy - they forget details for example: leaving the school without the canned food (I think they forgot to film it) or closing the gate behind them as they leave the safe zone in secret. You may imply that they closed the gate behind but we don't see it and hence they doomed their neighbors to zombies walking right in. C) They make characters stupid on purpose - Travis was the first to investigate the zombie outbreak at the church and the mom was in denial but then Travis went into denial and the mom of the drug addict became the one "aware" of zombies. D) The portrayal of the military is unrealistic. In zombie fiction the military usually is to blame or responsible for the outbreak but it has become a cliche. In the book World War Z they present the military in a better light against zombies - the military failing because they fight zombies as if they were a human army and don't bring the right weapons to the fight. But the military learns and wins. Now, we can't have the military winning on this TV show - but we need not make them the bad guys. D) The protagonists of "Fear" are all unlikable. I don't understand why they could not make us like them right away. It's not unusual. In Breaking Bad, as a viewer I instantly cared for everyone on the show as soon as they were introduced. What I mean is I found them interesting (aka likable). From what I could tell from online comments - no one likes or identifies with the "Fear" characters.

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