Skip to main content

Fear TWD Fixes The Walking Dead's Season 11 Death Issue

The Walking Dead's final season has proven a surprisingly death-lite affair so far, but Fear The Walking Dead season 7 confirms the zombie apocalypse still has bite. Over the past decade, The Walking Dead has continually justified its reputation as one of TV's most ruthless worlds, where no character is safe and major deaths lurk around every corner. As such, viewers would've been forgiven for anticipating The Walking Dead would up its game in season 11 - confirmed as the show's last run. Instead, The Walking Dead's climactic season has been disappointingly tame, only killing off a light handful of supporting and background characters. Alden - by far The Walking Dead season 11's most high-profile victim - didn't even meet his demise onscreen.

Just as The Walking Dead's protagonists are locked in a feud against the Commonwealth, Morgan Jones' Fear The Walking Dead group are waging war against The Tower. Victor Strand has fulfilled his villainous potential by evolving into a dictator analogous to The Walking Dead's Negan, commanding his office block community with an iron fist. As half of Texas bathes in nuclear fallout, Morgan joins Alicia Clark in one last-ditch attempt to liberate The Tower, and turn Strand's discriminatory fortress into a welcoming haven for all.

Related: Fear The Walking Dead Needs Madison's Return More Than Ever

Since Fear The Walking Dead is officially confirmed for season 8, Morgan and Alicia's battle for The Tower is not the spinoff's final arc - but it's still succeeding where The Walking Dead season 11 falls down. As Fear's landscape becomes more heated, characters big and and small have either died already, or are rapidly heading in that direction. John Dorie Sr. sacrificed his life to break Mo out of Strand's Tower, Charlie's condition is terminal after she contracted radiation poisoning, and Arno - Fear The Walking Dead season 7's secondary antagonist - endured a fatal zombie leg wax. Strand executed Howard as punishment for not betraying him (which tells you something about the villain's mental state), Alicia is suffering some kind of permanent fever, and a string of different guest stars bit the dust inside a single episode - Will, Paul, Ali, etc.

Even more major deaths have been teased for Fear The Walking Dead season 7's remaining episodes. It's becoming increasingly difficult to imagine Colman Domingo's Victor Strand sticking around if he loses The Tower, while Daniel already admitted to Luciana that reliving Ofelia's death all over again could break him completely. By killing off so many significant characters and teasing the deaths of even more, Fear The Walking Dead works hard to cement the high stakes of season 7's battle against Strand. The spinoff's heavy death toll also hammers home the double-threat of roaming zombies and nuclear radiation, ensuring viewers don't underestimate the danger these survivors are facing - both in the wild, and during the ongoing Tower War.

By comparison, The Walking Dead season 11's Commonwealth arc feels yet to truly ignite. As the main show's Grim Reaper restricts itself to sporadically scything only low-impact, ineffectual targets (Leah, Marco, etc...) there's no sense of danger or unpredictability as The Walking Dead's final season digs deeper. Although that could soon change in the last block of episodes, some protagonists are protected by spinoff armor. Daryl, Negan and Maggie have all been placed off-limits, as fresh Walking Dead projects beckon in their futures.

And speaking of the future, Fear The Walking Dead's death toll could have major ramifications for season 8. It's perfectly possible that the Tower War kills off John Dorie Sr., Charlie, Strand, Alicia, and Daniel, depriving Fear The Walking Dead of 5 main characters. Is season 7 beckoning a cast revolution? Kim Dickens will officially return as Madison Clark, after all - perhaps her storyline incorporates mostly fresh faces, making the current crop expendable. Even if Fear The Walking Dead's trigger happy spree stops here, season 7's Tower War has successfully cultivated a climate of danger and unpredictability - a feat The Walking Dead season 11 hasn't yet managed.

More: Fear The Walking Dead's Alicia Death Theories Just Got Worse

Fear The Walking Dead continues Sunday on AMC.



Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

CBS' Ghosts: Every Main Ghost Time Period & Backstory Explained

One of CBS' newest sitcoms,  Ghosts , features a cast full of spectral characters that each hail from a distinct time period and come with their own unique backstory and death. Though each of the eight ghosts has a wildly different perspective based on their different experiences throughout history, they nonetheless form a sort of family, which is one of the show's greatest charms. After all, being stuck with the same people for all of eternity allows for plenty of time to get to know each other. Ghosts , which is an adaptation of a BBC show of the same name, stars Utkarsh Ambudkar and Rose McIver (who played Liv Moore on five seasons of  iZombie ) as Jay and Sam, a young couple who inherit a mansion in upstate New York. To their surprise, however, the house also comes with several ghostly inhabitants, who Sam is able to see after a near-death experience. These are Thorfinn (Devan Long), Sasappis (Román Zaragoza), Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones), Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky...
Post a Comment
Read more

Every Actress Who Played Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, Ranked

Author  Agatha Christie 's Miss Marple is one of the most iconic and celebrated literary sleuths of all time. The amateur investigator was first introduced in the 1930 novel Murder at the Vicarage , appearing in 11 subsequent novels up until 1976. The character has been portrayed on the stage, on radio, and for our purposes, on the big and small screen several times since the character's screen debut in 1961. Over the past 60 years, Miss Marple has been portrayed by several actresses, many of whom hail from different parts of the world. To see who did Miss Marple the most justice on screen, scroll below. Updated July 21st, 2022 by George Chrysostomou:  Agatha Christie's works are still influencing the industry today and Miss Marple is among her most famous creations. With the Knives Out sequel, Glass Onion , taking the audience back to the genre, it's well worth checking out these classic portrayals of one of the best detectives out there featuring some fantastic Mis...
Post a Comment
Read more

Horizon Forbidden West: 10 Best Quotes From The Game

WARNING: Major SPOILERS for Horizon Forbidden West discussed in this article. Upon its release on February 28, 2022, the massive open-world single-player video game Horizon Forbidden West continues to pick up steam among avid and casual gamers alike. The story continues the epic quest of Aloy to save humanity from global extinction, traversing a sprawling post-apocalyptic western United States to carry out a series of missions. RELATED: Horizon Forbidden West - Aloy's 10 Best Weapon Types Ranked From Worst To Best The cinematic nature of the game makes for a series of engaging monologues, quips, quotes, and important dialogues that advance the plot while also revealing something about the main characters. Whether it's Aloy, Varl, Reglla, or others, the most memorable quotes stand out for a reason. In a badass mission statement that immediately establishes who is boss and what her clear objectives are early in the content-rich open-world game , Aloy's heartfelt vow to ...
Post a Comment
Read more