Fear the Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 1 Review
It was Oct of 2017 and Walking Expressionless fans had gathered at Madison Square Garden for the season 8 New York Comic Con panel with some of the cast — non on the larger basketball loonshit that they were used to, only in a smaller, cramped theater in the back of the venue. The attendees overtook the conversation many times.
Melissa McBride smiled and waited for the cheers to finally die down in this cramped space and so she could talk about Carol'due south journeying ahead, but even she was interrupted by one or ii stray fans who cosplayed Negan and screamed, "Nosotros dearest you!" Andrew Lincoln made a indicate to promise at present was finally the time to bring the old Rick back, and Lennie James and then tried to explicate his character's conflict over harming i of the Saviors. "Only exercise it!" another fan shouted, a symptom of the labored narrative we had watch play out on screen the previous season.
In some means, The Walking Dead doesn't feel like information technology belongs to the creators anymore. It belongs to the fans, and the producers of the serial don't desire to disappoint them — often times to a fault. Lincoln made proclamations about how the season 8 finale will be "phenomenal" and executive producer Scott Gimple told TV Line, "I pray to God [the fans] are satisfied."
This is where we find Fear the Walking Dead in an interesting position. It's a spin-off that has become amend and improve with each flavor, while the quality and ratings of The Walking Dead continues to falter. It doesn't take to worry equally much about fan expectations because it'due south traversing new territory previously unseen in this earth. It still belongs to the creators. Lead characters can actually be killed off if the story calls for information technology — the actors are keen, simply they don't have the rabid legions backing, say, Norman Reedus that would blow up the internet. In a lot of ways, information technology's a spin-off that has surpassed the series that spawned it.
So when Morgan walks abroad from The Walking Dead and enters the world of Fearfulness the Walking Expressionless, the major bummer is the reminder that there are still some loose ends to necktie up in the serial proper.
We start meet John Dorie, a cowboy played past Garret Dillahunt. He's been living in silence for the past year because he hasn't had anyone to talk too and he really started enjoying the idea of talking to himself. Merely equally he'south sitting by a bivouac eating the merely food he has, baked beans, he breaks his silence when he hears a branch snap in the woods. Maybe it'south someone hiding from him, possibly it's a walker, maybe it's a traveler passing through. He feels compelled to speak out to the darkness, to someone who might not even be in that location. He did have a lover at ane point, a woman who came across his path and lived with him for some fourth dimension — until they got separated. He mentions later how they both carry identical white-handled pistols.
A walker finally shuffled out from the woods. John, an apt gunslinger, spins his weapon around and shoots it down. As the corpse falls, Morgan is standing behind it with his stick about to pierce the walker's skull. The two men freeze. Morgan's not sure if he can trust John, merely John is excited about the prospect of company. "What's your story?" he asks.
Here's that story…
The forces of Alexandria, Hilltop, and the Kingdom defeated the Saviors, but Morgan still decided to live by himself at the junkyard, what used to exist the habitation of Jadis and the Scavengers. He's visited by Jesus, Carol, and Rick, who are all trying to save him, to bring him back home. "You lot tin hide, but you can't run," Rick says. Challenge accepted! Morgan does run, but by and large walks from it all. He sets out across the land, actively fugitive whatsoever other people he spots along the manner. The colour quality becomes muted, closer to blackness and white, so information technology's unclear if they're trying to play with time here. It doesn't seem so. (Recap continues on side by side page)
Morgan approaches a homo found shivering to death in a motorcar. Morgan leaves him some bandages and medicine, simply the human being screams for him to take his supplies back and get out. "We're always solitary," he says — a mantra Morgan will adopt for himself. Time goes by and he makes his manner to Texas. In the woods at nighttime, he spies a walker hobbling towards a man rambling about his lost dearest, so he does the right affair and tries to kill it. When John takes intendance of it himself, the cowboy extends an invitation to bring together his campsite. Morgan insists he's just passing through, just John convinces him to at to the lowest degree residue nether the condom roof of his car for the night. He does, just leaves in the middle of the night.
Morgan stumbles upon a vacant tent with a light on. It doesn't seem like anyone'southward around, just someone sneaks up behind him and knocks him out. Morgan wakes on the ground as a group of men with guns are rifling through his backpack. The tent was 1 of their little "mousetraps" to snare unsuspecting travelers. Morgan assures them he doesn't know anyone and doesn't want to know anyone. He's merely passing through. A shot pierces through the dark and knocks the gun out of the leader Leeland'due south hand. John walks upwardly from backside with a burglarize and says he's simply looking out for his friend. Unknown to him is the other fellow member of the grouping who comes upwards backside John, and at present both the "karate human" and the "gunslinger" are trapped.
They observe an unexpected savior when a massive armored SWAT truck pulls up. Al (Maggie Grace), short for Althea, had parked nearby and wanted to know what the gunshot was all nigh. Noticing the "new people," she tries to bargain for their freedom by offering Leeland food and smokes. When he declines, she pulls a lever that opens a hatch to reveal two automated guns set to burn.
As they drive off into the night, Al seems nice, just she has an ulterior motive. She's a journalist, and for saving their lives, she asks Morgan and John to sit downwardly for an on-photographic camera interview for a story she'due south logging about the people surviving the outbreak. Morgan would've rather she rob them.
John talks about Laura, the love he's trying to discover. He doesn't mention how they were separated exactly, just that information technology'southward a lamentable story. Morgan needs a piddling more than convincing to open up. He leaves behind some canned food, even though Al insists she doesn't demand them, and heads out once more. John catches up to him earlier he leaves to offer a fresh pair of socks, "worth its weight in gold." Morgan welcomes the assistance, but still wants to venture out alone, again mentioning the "we're always alone" line.
He's stopped, however, by Leeland'due south crew. Al had mentioned these men have go drastic later scavenging the other nearby locations dry out, so they followed their trail in the hopes of seizing Al'southward truck — and also taking some revenge. Morgan and John manage to smack the guns out of their attackers' hands, as the gunslinger fires at the man stationed on the roof. The sounds of the skirmish distract Leeland enough for Al to knock him dorsum. She still isn't able to get into the truck quick plenty, just she does chuck the keys away so Leeland can't get them. He badly tries to observe them, but he gets bitten by a serpent. Adding to the raucous are the walkers John inadvertently permit loose when he opened the door to a trailer to shield himself from bullets.
Morgan, meanwhile, leaps from rooftop to rooftop to take out another gunman. He gets striking in the leg in his pursuit, but as the gunman stops to reload, Morgan is able to get back up and knock away the firearm with his staff. Their ensuing lucifer hits the man over the side, where he dangles above a herd of walkers reaching for his flesh. Morgan decides to pull him back up, but the guy goes for another set on that forces them to fall through the roof and into the firm, where more than walkers are waiting for them. As the dead chow down on this human being, Morgan finds a grenade and throws it into the centre of the room. He hides in the bath as the blast engulfs the home. (Epitomize continues on next folio)
Al tries again to make information technology to the truck, now with the keys, but Leeland is gear up for her. John, taking refuge from the dead atop a car with Morgan, fires at Leeland'southward back, allowing Al to escape underneath the vehicle. The walkers round on Leeland and accept him down as Al makes information technology to the lever and clears out all the dead.
Now bonded by this experience, the trio striking the road again. John notices a imprint with the number 51 painted on it. Al explains she noticed them popping up around the surface area in the past few weeks, only doesn't know what they're about. Morgan is now willing to reveal parts of his own story. They stop on the side of the road and he reveals he came from Atlanta and Virginia. He mentions Alexandria, The Kingdom, Ezekiel, Shiva, and how they won the fight with Negan ("another big group"). He mentions he already "left" mentally before he left physically.
Before Al can ask too many questions, he flips the script and asks about why she'south going effectually documenting everyone and why whatsoever of this will matter in a world with no more than television stations. She only mentions that this isn't about her, it's about Morgan owning her. Still, the nomad is content to be a nomad and sets off with injured leg on his solo journey. Al does get one more than answer out of him. "Why did you leave Virginia?" she asks. "I lose people, then I lose myself," he says.
Willie Nelson might besides be playing in the background as Morgan "can't wait to get on the road once more." He couldn't accept gotten far when he comes across a familiar looking machine. It'south the motorcar, now abandoned, that he institute housing a shivering man. All the doors are open up and the vehicle is completely vacant, only further down the route he spots a familiar-looking walker. He hobbles afterwards it simply in case it's the homo he saw, only the light smack of his staff against the cement triggers two walkers munching on a corpse to the side of the road. They come afterwards him and, equally Morgan falls to the ground, nearly overtake him. But John comes to the rescue. Al's truck lingers in the groundwork, waiting to welcome Morgan back, simply first he must see the walker for himself. John helps him along the route and, it turns out, the walker is the aforementioned human being who apparently died of being alone (but more seriously of hypothermia).
John is turning out to be better for Morgan than he realized. The two of them sitting in the back of Al's truck every bit they hit the open up road, and he mentions that Al is going to assistance detect Laura, since they checked and his truck dorsum in town won't beginning. He'due south hopeful that the two volition reunite and he tin can't fifty-fifty consider the contrary because it doesn't do him "any good." (Morgan, are you listening?)
Soon, they spot a body hobbling along in the middle of the street. They stop to investigate but, to Al's dismay, both Morgan and John divulge they don't kill if they don't have to. Morgan says he doesn't even impale anymore if he has to. On that notation, they all end the vehicle and investigate, finding a wild-haired Alicia dropping to the floor. She looks up and warns that in that location are bad people out at that place. It turns out that those bad people are Alicia and her cohorts subconscious in the grass.
When she gets close enough, Alicia whips out a bract and presses it against Al's throat. Nick, Victor, and Luciana sally from the brush with guns pointed at their prey. "So what the hell is your story?" Al asks, which, as this blueprint suggests, will be the subject of next week'south episode.
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