The Walking Dead spinoff show kicking off this summer leading into next season's The Walking Dead.

https://www.yahoo.com/tv/the-walking-de ... 26485.html

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That ad last night has me interested. Ill watch

This is the kind of story I find more interesting. How'd did this whole outbreak start? How did society basically crumble? How long did it take? etc...

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Me too.

Tough shit cause Kirkman doesnt know



Why Robert Kirkman’s Reason For Not Revealing The Source Of The Outbreak In ‘The Walking Dead’ Is Wrong
BY DUSTIN ROWLES • 04.15.15 #THE WALKING DEAD
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In discussing details about the next season of The Walking Dead (including teasing a major character death), Robert Kirkman revealed more details on the companion series, Fear the Walking Dead, beyond everything we already know about the series.

Kirkman reiterated that Fear the Walking Dead will return to the beginnings of the outbreak, when the zombies were a bigger, more present and deadlier danger. He also said that it’s not really a prequel, either, because it’s not like it will end when Rick wakes up from his coma. There will be some time overlap.

But if Fear the Walking Dead is going back to the origins of the outbreak, does that mean we’ll find out the source of the zombie pandemic?

No.

“[Learning the origins] is not the priority in The Walking Dead; that’s not the priority in Fear The Walking Dead. Every other story deals with that stuff and we’re concerned about the heart.”

That’s fine and dandy, and who doesn’t love a series that’s more concerned with the “heart?” But that statement he made about “every other story” dealing with “that stuff?” That’s not entirely accurate, actually. Because more often than not, “that stuff” is either glossed over or its left unexplained, as in The Walking Dead. In nearly every single zombie story, the source of the outbreak is — at best — a minor detail.

For instance, no George Romero zombie film has ever definitely revealed the source of the outbreak (although Return of the Living Dead — which is not part of Romero’s canon — did suggest that the outbreak was started by an army experiment gone awry). Moreover, no source is revealed in Shaun of the Dead. In Warm Bodies, we are not told the source of the outbreak, although we do discover that “love” is the antidote. There is a patient zero in World War Z, but the cause of the plague is unknown.

Sure, the source is revealed in 28 Days Later (chimpanzees infected with the “Rage” virus), Dead Alive (the rape of tree monkeys by plague-carrying rats), Zombieland (a mutated strain of mad cow disease) and Re-Animator (a mad scientists serum), but the source of the outbreak does not figure heavily into the plots of those movies.

In other words, while there have been a ton of zombie stories, very few deal with “that stuff,” and the ones that do only give it short shrift. If Kirkman really wanted to make Fear the Walking Dead unique to the zombie genre, he would spend more time dealing with the origin of the virus and, perhaps, developing a cure.

One of the other major tropes in the zombie genre is the unhappy, devastating ending where practically everyone dies. If Kirkman wants to avoid that fate for characters he has been developing over the last five seasons (and probably another five seasons, at least), it might actually behoove him to explore the origins so that he can find a cure. Either that, or — according to science — he can remove the zombie threat by simply waiting it out.

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I think I said the same thing after S 1:E 1.

Shakes is the expert on The Walking Dead and told me it didn't matter. I trust shakes so I haven't worried about it too much. They tied up the things I wanted tied by going back to the man who saved him after he got out of the hospital and revealing what the CDC guy told him.

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I hope Netflix puts out season 5 before this starts. I hate being behind in multiple plains of existence

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just download kodi and install genesis

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yea, how it starts is unimportant. What we all want to see is how society crumbles from the first sign of infection to the point where we are at in the original Walking Dead. To me that is always the most interesting part of zombie lore. We want to see the first set of "patients" show up at hospitals and see how first responders are about 99% infection rate due to their exposure and ignorance. We want to see people stumble around until they figure out how to dispatch of zombies. We want to see people discover for the first time that even dying of natural causes leads to reanimation. We want to see stores getting looted and people beginning to fight over resources etc.

Sounds like we will get all that and more in this new spin off.

Who cares about how it started because in the grand scheme of things what does it matter? Are Joe schmo and Jane Doe gonna take their white collar/blue collar backgrounds and use that to discover a cure in some lab that they don't know exists? No, even if they know what the cause is they still won't know how to cure it and even if they had a clue its unlikely they would have the resources to pull it off...all this while trying to survive minute to minute?

The only way a cure type scenario would be relevant is if this show was about the CDC. And who wants to see that?

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but I liked that movie where Dustin Hoffman was in the CDC fighting an outbreak

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I think the initial panic AND the cause would be entertaining. Not because they could use the info to cure it, just to see how people react to the info and how they assess blame etc.

But how would knowing the cause and who's to blame in any way advance the story on the street level? People wouldn't be reacting to it because they are too busy reacting to the zombies outside their door. There would be no time to dwell on assessing blame because every day would be filled with worrying about surviving.

I just don't see how the cause in any way improves a zombie show unless that show is focused on scientists living in a lab/bunker.

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You could work it into the story. Maybe it was a government thing. And the government is safe hiding out and Rick and the team (or these jokers) go to find them?


I agree the story is fine without it, but Id be interested in it and I think a talented writer could write it in somehow.