Walking Dead Season 8

[Losethem (imported)]

I'm a bit annoyed at the crossover. Without giving details about what happened in either the finale of TWD or the premiere of Fear TWD, they could be doing this crossover better.

Fear TWD is a show that takes place starting a month or two before the original series, as they wanted to use it as a device to explain how society ended. Since that start, it's progressed at a rate with time passing about as quickly as it does on the original series. This places Fear TWD, about 4-5 years behind the original. Morgan shows up on Fear TWD, just after his time in Virginia in the Negan story line in the original series, which makes no sense for the chronology of Fear TWD. There has not been an explanation why. So now the timelines are out of whack. I hope this gets explained, because with what has been seen so far, it's not making sense.

I would have written it more like this: Morgan was gone from the original series for several seasons before coming back. For me writing him into Fear TWD would have been handled better by having his disappearance on the original series explained by his showing up in the proper place in Fear TWD's timeline. It would have worked. His absence on the original series (and Rick being unable to find him all that time), could have been easily explained by his being gone traveling out west with the Fear TWD folks.

I have to admit this time discrepancy is annoying me. I hope they get around to explaining it!

[Dave (imported)]

Consider the locations --

TWD takes place in Atlanta, Georgia and Alexandria, Virginia.

FTWD takes place in California.

Scott Gimple said that it would take Morgan Jones months if not a year to cross the USA. The new season of FTWD takes place after Morgan gets there. That means that at least a year passed, if not two or three after last season's end of FTWD.

I didn't watch that last season of FTWD because I had come to dislike the characters. That's hard to explain. The best explanation I give is that I thought them TSTL (Too Stupid To Live) which is a "sin" I see in movies, short stories, and TV. Characters that walk into danger and die horrible, bloody deaths in horror flicks is

[Losethem (imported)]

With the way the last season of Fear TWD ended, and the characters I saw in the season premiere, they have a lot of loose threads to explain if they are going to time jump to the present time of the original series. For me such a continuity gaffe is worse than getting to the end of the season and having Bobby Ewing show up after he was murdered. Was it really all a dream?

[Dave (imported)]

With the way the last season of Fear TWD ended, and the characters I saw in the season premiere, they have a lot of loose threads to explain if they are going to time jump to the present time of the original series. For me such a continuity gaffe is worse than getting to the end of the season and having Bobby Ewing show up after he was murdered. Was it really all a dream?

What I think they are doing is to jump ahead a year, or two, or three in the timeline and leave the previous seasons as they were and try to forget that they took one of the biggest and most successful franchises and ran the spinoff into the ground. I think that means they are presenting an altogether new story with new characters and situations while giving old characters new attitudes.

Or they just could be covering their asses for turning out a bad show.

[ambiguous (imported)]

I will have to re visit FOTWD at sometime. I wasn't feeling the love first season but it might be a grower.

Still haven't got round to watching Episode 16 yet... perhaps tonight ??.

[Losethem (imported)]

What I think they are doing is to jump ahead a year, or two, or three in the timeline and leave the previous seasons as they were and try to forget that they took one of the biggest and most successful franchises and ran the spinoff into the ground. I think that means they are presenting an altogether new story with new characters and situations while giving old characters new attitudes.

Or they just could be covering their asses for turning out a bad show.

I was actually o.k. with the storyline at the Ranch, and how they handled the leftover politics from before the virus. The premiere found us in Texas, with Morgan from the original series, and the cliffhanger at the end has the son and daughter from Fear TWD in Texas. Last we saw them, they were in California/western Mexico, drowning in a river.

I think Morgan taking a trip out west in the timeline of the original series would have maintained continuity, and could very well have explained how Morgan was a little more willing to be part of post-apocalypse society when he showed up after being gone for several seasons. Of course that would need to take into account Morgan's desire to "clear" things when he first got back.

[ambiguous (imported)]

I sort of figured out what would have been the downfall of some of the Saviours.

I think they might have taken too many of them under their wings and hope Negan makes a bit of a comeback.

I know everyone wants him to be worm food but that's what makes him such a good baddie.

[Dave (imported)]

I watched the second episode of FTWD and discovered why I despised the previous season.

It's Madison... Can't stand the character.

That's the long and short of it.

To add to the depth of my revulsion -- the new season of INTO THE BADLANDS is on after it which guarantees that Sunday is now Movie Sunday for me. . .