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Any walking dead fans on here? The full trailer is out for the spin-off / prequel of the walking dead ā€˜Fear the walking deadā€™.

Whereas ā€˜The walking deadā€™ focuses on a group of survivors in Atlanta and started after the virus had spread, ā€˜Fear the walking deadā€™ will be set in LA and starts before the virus, following the events of the outbreak.

Trailer for Fear the walking dead (out August 2015)

A few days ago also saw the new trailer for Season 06 of ā€˜The walking deadā€™ due (out October 2015)

YouTube

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Iā€™m a huge TWD fan, didnā€™t get into it until it was mid-way through the second series but iā€™ve watched it through a good 2 or 3 times now. Comic reader too, so itā€™s interesting to be able to compare the two side-by-side. Speaking of comic storylines, this season of TWD should be f*cking awesome and it looks like theyā€™re jumping into a biiig event at the start of this season which will be sweet to see realised, as itā€™s one of my favourite bits from the comic.

As for FTWD, I was a bit unsure about it at first but the more iā€™ve seen and heard from this project, the more excited iā€™ve become about it. That trailer looks great and itā€™ll be interesting to get a different perspective of events from the same universe, and to finally see how this all startedā€¦

Sorry Spud, but I watched the first series * after hearing so many great things about it, but then I had to tap out.

it just wasnā€™t sufficiently different from other zombie/apocalypse stuff Iā€™d seen before.

Iā€™m told that had I made it through series * 2 I might have been hooked, but life is too shortā€¦

Bletch is intentionally, and it would appear, single-handedly turning back the language-invaders through the use of series instead of season.

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I tend to just follow the terminology based on the source of the show, ie if it was a UK based show Iā€™d say series 01, whereas if it was created in the US of A Iā€™d go for season, as thatā€™s what they call it, for example the video itself says season 06 in the title.

I like that youā€™ve been a little ironic in this post as well bletchy, good work. Lifeā€™s too short to stick at watching one of the most popular tv series in the world, but not so short that you donā€™t have time to draw attention to people using the term season rather than series!

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Yeah Iā€™ll definitely be watching both of those. Walking Dead seems to me to be one of the few shows that gets better and better with each season. Excuse me, going for a walk, gotta get my sneakers on.

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:confused: *

Very good, Spudster, but itā€™s not all about you, you know.

You know that you are a spud-I-like, so I wouldnā€™t be so personal as to dig you in the ribs over your use of language.

Iā€™ve been posting that little footnote every time I comment on a multi-season ** TV show from the You Ess of Ayy.

Your post was simply collateral damage.

* - This should appear as if Iā€™m smiling, and not have a stroke. We were promised Championsā€™ League emoticons here, but all weā€™ve got are these League of Wales ones.

** - Here Bletch has usedā€¦ ahh, whatever

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The Walking Dead is one of the two shows that I look out for with any regularity. I think bletch needs to give it another go, particularly if the end of the first season is where he stopped. Kirkman does tread a lot of familiar ground to Romero. Slow zombies, the humans are the real villains of the piece, etc, etc. You could argue that all the show is doing is extending Romeroā€™s template over a long run. Well, no-one else is managing that, not even Romero.

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I must say, that Fear The Walking Dead trailer looks pretty impressive. Weā€™ve never seen much of the outbreak itself. A few flashbacks, a little bit of an infested Atlanta. Seeing everything go off in LA could be very interesting.

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Romeroā€™s recent films have been dire imo, thankfully he turned down TWD.

Romero is a void now, there is nothing redeeming about diary or survival. The further he gets from TWD the better.

I enjoyed it and got along to season 4, I think. Not sure it deserves the plaudits itā€™s getting on here though. Itā€™s entertaining but I canā€™t say it does much for illuminating the human condition in any way.

It asks what happens to civilised people when civilisation goes out of the window. How many carry those virtues inherently, and how many are simply operating within a civilised framework. What happens to people when you canā€™t simply order pizza? In a very consumerist society, it asks what happens if all of that goes away. Quite successfully, mostly. Normally, the post apocalypse is just biker gangs in bondage gear.

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Originally posted by @pap

It asks what happens to civilised people when civilisation goes out of the window. How many carry those virtues inherently, and how many are simply operating within a civilised framework. What happens to people when you canā€™t simply order pizza? In a very consumerist society, it asks what happens if all of that goes away. Quite successfully, mostly. Normally, the post apocalypse is just biker gangs in bondage gear.

Hmmmā€¦maybe. I havenā€™t read the graphic novels - maybe theyā€™re a little more nuanced (and interesting) than the TV series. As I said Iā€™ve watched the first 4 seasons - I like it - just not that much.

Unfortunately, whenever anyone bangs on at me to watch a TV series my first response tends to be, ā€˜Is it as good as The Wire?ā€™. Which admittedly is a pretty high watermark. So, everything else is on a hiding to nothing, really.

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Er no. If you considered the TV show to be a PG version of the comic book, you wouldnā€™t go far wrong. The TV show, grim as it often is, is like a soothing watercolour impression of the comic. It has rarely, if ever, gone as extreme as the comic book source material and theyā€™ve unfailingly stepped away from each of the ā€œreally badā€ things that happens in the comics. Michonneā€™s treatment at the hands of the governor is 10x worse, as is her retribution.

I have seen the first two episodes of this, and am quite impressed. One the one hand, itā€™s really narrow. Itā€™s just about a couple of families as things unfold. On the other, there is some very impressive civilisation disintegration happening on a wider scale. At the end of episode two, I think weā€™re going to have the beginnings of a group of survivors.

I can possibly see everyone holding out in the school for a bit.

Watched the first 5 now. Itā€™s an interesting storyline but the budget seems even less than the Walking Dead - very little of the large scale action youā€™d expect in a city of millions. Theyā€™ll be making millions thatā€™s for sure.

gr8 show for those who thought the best bits of Walking Dead was all the dumb, boring human melodrama.

They were very honest from the beginning of the showā€™s production by saying that it wasnā€™t going to be a ā€œguts n gloryā€ type gorefest, but more of a slow burn. Iā€™m really enjoying it, but then again I am a big fan of the normal show so iā€™m probably biased.

If peeps are wanting action and drama, tune in to Ep 1 of the new series of TWD next Sunday/Monday - big shitā€™s going down!

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^^^^ Agreed. I was reading some reviews online the other day and several people were making loads of comparisions with The Walking Dead and trying to even compare charaters, ā€œis so and so the new Glenā€, etc. Itā€™s like they just want a clone of The walking dead, but just with different people. Iā€™m also liking the fact itā€™s slowly building up and looking at things differently

Originally posted by @SuperMikey

If peeps are wanting action and drama, tune in to Ep 1 of the new series of TWD next Sunday/Monday - big shitā€™s going down!

Apparently the first episode of the new season has more Zombies in it than any other episode so far!

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