Fear the Walking Dead 1.3 "The Dog" (spoiler alert)

[NewJeffCT]

Travis, Liza and Chris seek refuge with the Salazar family after escaping a violent riot. Meanwhile, Madison defends her home.

[NewJeffCT]

1. Bunch of articles

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/09/kim-dickens-fear-the-walking-dead-lost-deadwood-friday-night-lights-sons-of-anarchy-gone-girl-treme-house-cards

http://www.designntrend.com/articles/60168/20150912/fear-the-walking-dead-frank-dillane-10-things-you-didnt-know-about-amc-nick-clark.htm

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/83775/20150910/fear-the-walking-dead-promo-the-walking-dead-apocalypse-zombie-apocalypse-zombies-amc.htm

http://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/q-and-a/a30323/alycia-debnam-carey-walking-dead/

http://1428elm.com/2015/09/10/the-breakdown-begins-in-new-fear-the-walking-dead-promo/

http://www.tvfanatic.com/2015/09/fear-the-walking-dead-preview-mercedes-mason-on-ofelias-journey/

http://hollywoodlife.com/2015/09/11/fear-the-walking-dead-episode-3-preview-travis-escapes-los-angeles-video/

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Who is the blue-eyed ghoul in the hoodie?

That looks more "The Strain" than "Fear the Walking Dead."

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Weird way to release a spoiler.

I don't get the impression that Alicia is long in this world. They say as much in one of those interviews.

[NewJeffCT]

4. I thought something along those lines as well

she's doing the best in the 'real world' - great student - aiming for an excellent college, steady boyfriend, etc. So, since she's excelling in this 'real' world, she might have the biggest adjustment to make and the most to lose.

However, I think I kind of glossed over the spoiler about her dying.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Perhaps she was referring to her chances of survival in "real life" zombie disaster.

"As FTWD fans anticipate the series' long-weekend-delayed third episode, we spoke to Debnam-Carey about what's to come, why she empathizes with her character, and her own plans for beating the brain eaters. (Spoiler alert: She probably won't make it.)"

[NewJeffCT]

5. a few more articles

from today.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/09/13/what-will-be-the-ultimate-goal-of-fear-the-walking-dead/

http://www.ibtimes.com/fear-walking-dead-new-tonight-what-will-happen-episode-3-2094481

http://comicbook.com/2015/09/13/kim-dickens-cliff-curtis-and-david-alpert-on-fear-the-walking-de/

[NewJeffCT]

7. about 30 minutes to go

till a new episode

[NewJeffCT]

8. watching the end of last week's episode now

Tobias kept stabbing the principal in the shoulder... I guess he doesn't know about head shots yet

[NewJeffCT]

9. narrow view

of what looks like a nasty ass riot

[Kotya]

17. One cop eating another cop.

This isn't a normal riot.

[NewJeffCT]

10. Fire, walkers and massive rioting

the perfect shit storm

[NewJeffCT]

11. into the neighbor's home now

madison, alicia and nick

oops, alicia a goner?

[NewJeffCT]

12. poor dog

I wonder if it will be like horses on TWD?

[NewJeffCT]

13. intense episode so far

escape from the riot, escape from the neighbor, escape from the maze...

[NewJeffCT]

14. she's not sick - she's dead

Nick knows what's going on

[NewJeffCT]

15. episode ran over the normal hour

just ended at 10:05 EST?

[Kotya]

16. So does Daniel Salazar

He seems to understand the severity of what's going on better than anyone else, save Tobias the prepper kid.

[Baitball Blogger]

18. Love that they are giving Ruben Blades a high profile role.

He's a fellow Panamanian, though the character he plays is from San Salvador. Time to dust off some google searches to remember what happened in San Salvador to find out why he said, "It's too late," once the military moved in. THAT is going to be the story. The one human conflict we haven't seen on Walking Dead is what full-fledged martial law would look like.

I don't think it's an accident that poor Patrick was whisked off to be quarantined. That would be protocol, since they still don't know the vector source. However, since he looks Japanese, there's lots of parallel with what we did to the Japanese Americans in World War II.

Before I even looked for it, I knew I would find this article talking about how Fear the Walking Dead would examine the American immigrant story.

http://io9.com/how-fear-the-walking-dead-will-explore-the-american-imm-1717256270

The Walking Dead spinoff Fear the Walking Dead is going to look at how different family units operate at the beginning of the zombie apocalypse, and one of those families will feature a Salvadorian immigrant and his first-generation American daughter, examining the American dream in the Walking Dead world.

During a roundtable press interview at San Diego Comic-Con, The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead executive producer Gale Anne Hurd explains that the key thing that distinguishes the spinoff show is that, instead of focusing on a former police sheriff and his tribe, Fear the Walking Dead looks at ordinary people with ordinary jobs coping with the growing apocalypse. Among those people is Daniel Salazar, played by Rubén Blades, a barber who came to Los Angeles from El Salvador years ago with his wife:


We’ll deal with the immigrant experience, immigrants who come here for a new life and what they want for their children, to have a better life than they did. That has all changed irreparably.

Blades likened the series to October 11th, 1492, the day before Christopher Columbus landed in the New World. After all, we’re seeing a time four or five weeks before The Walking Dead’s lead protagonist Rick Grimes woke from his coma. And as for Daniel Salazar, Blades said:

[NewJeffCT]

19. Thanks for the link

I'll have to read the whole article later.

[rug]

29. Ruben Blades . . . . Live

[Baitball Blogger]

30. Incredible, incredible man.

[rug]

31. And he has a LL.M. from Harvsrd Law School.

[NewJeffCT]

32. very impressive life

he has led.

[lunatica]

20. Salazar said "debil" about Travis

In the part where Maddy is holding the hammer and thinking about killing her neighbor and Travis takes it away from her Salazar is watching them and says one word, "debil". The word means "weak" so evidently he things Travis is weak.

That explains why there's a growing tension between Salazar and Travis. I'm surprised they had him say it in Spanish instead of English. Sneaky aren't they? Most people wouldn't get that moment at all.

[NewJeffCT]

21. Remember from "Days Gone Bye"

the first episode of TWD - Rick could not kill bicycle girl in the beginning. As he goes to leave town, he goes back & puts her out of her misery.

I don't think anybody would call him weak anymore.

[lunatica]

22. Travis hasn't killed a zombie yet, although Nick did kill the dope dealer

But Maddy already killed the school principle and also learned the only way to stop him was to beat his brains in with the fire extinguisher. The fact she was holding a hammer shows she knows what needs to be done. Her hesitation was that she still doesn't know if the zombies are already dead or just sick and curable. Travis stops her because he hasn't made the connection yet.

He also told Salazar that he didn't want his son learning how to use a shot gun, yet didn't Salazar have to shoot the zombie's brains out to protect Travis? At least Travis, if not the one attacked by the zombie certainly watched what was going on. When Maddy shoots the zombie she shoots it in the face and it keeps coming so Salazar took the shotgun and blew the top of its head off. I'm kind of surprised that Travis is still not making the connections.

I'm sure Travis will learn soon though.

[Baitball Blogger]

23. Salazar will have a chance to prove what he is made out of.

Didn't his wife get bitten?

And, I think the word "debil" was captioned as "weak" on the telly.

[lunatica]

25. Salazar's wife had her foot hurt when the scaffold came down on top of her

when they were trying to get to Travis' truck.

I'm glad they captioned "weak". I didn't catch that since I speak Spanish.

[NewJeffCT]

24. I think Nick may have incapacitated the drug dealer walker

but, I remember it was still stirring after Nick ran it down into the levee. Still, he did know it had to die, and other than that kid with the smart phone and Alicia, nobody seems to know how to kill "them"

[lunatica]

26. Oh. So the dealer may be a zombie walking around then

I thought they had killed him. Although sometimes if their legs are broken they can't walk, but they can crawl. The drug dealer got hit a lot of times with the car so maybe all it's bones were broken.

[NewJeffCT]

27. He got slammed with the car pretty good twice

and kept getting up. The last time, when Nick slammed into him and sent him flying off the ledge and into the concrete levee should have finished any human...however, they made it a point of showing him stirring again. He may end up like bicycle girl and unable to move, but if he was stirring, I would think he's still alive.

That said, he did shoot & kill the drug dealer before he rose again

[NewJeffCT]

28. check this video from about 1:35 on

[Baclava]

33. I quit comparing it to TWD - I thought it was better this week

Since mom seems the smartest of this bunch, I bet she's the first to go.

Did we really watch these characters sit and play a game of Monopoly? They all look greasy.

hey - you have running water, go take a fucking bath...and change your clothes!

With only 3 episodes left, I don't know how far they can go with this fortress neighborhood scenario

Sneak peak of Episode 4

[NewJeffCT]

34. it was definitely a step up this past week

though, I still don't get that people don't automatically close doors behind them after entering or leaving a house.