Flagg wrote:FaxModem1 wrote:Flagg wrote:Yeah, I hate 90% of the criticism that 'Fear' gets because it's essentially people calling the characters stupid for not knowing "the rules" like everyone in ep1 of TWD did when Rick woke from his coma. In a lot of ways, he had it much easier than the cast of FTWD does, since they didn't have someone to tell him what's going on, what the rotting things attacking and eating people are, and how to put them down for good. It's just not a legitimate criticism of the show that "the characters aren't clairvoyant!!!". I mean if that part bothers you, why watch, since you had ample time to know what the premise was in the first place?
For me it was more the weirdness with the military unit there. If the troops are staying up for 50 hours straight, how does the lieutenant have enough free time for golfing and a corporal have enough time for a love affair? Or why was the government trying to keep a lid on the disease so badly, even when riots were openly happening because people thought they were killing homeless instead of zombies, to the point that social order disintegrated due to the 'injustices' the cops were doing.
The LT was a jackass and it was heavily implied he got fragged. And the "love affair" all happened while he was on duty and when he disappeared I'm assuming his superiors chalked it up to him going AWOL, because I got the feeling that that wasn't uncommon, at least at that point.
I do wish there had been some actual newscasts or radio reports shown before everything went blackout rather than viral videos and Internet reports, and that's a totally legitimate criticism. But the government would have a few reasons to keep things hushed up, if it were a bio weapon of their making that got loose, for instance. But the cause will never be revealed while Kirkman has any say, which is the right move IMO. Hell, my least favorite aspect from the original show was them going to the CDC, which even the writers and producers have since said was a mistake. Other reasons could be that the shit hit the fan so fast that before the government could make any official announcements, enough people abandoned ship to go get their families and get the hell out of dodge (like the cop Travis saw hoarding water in ep 2 of FTWD for example) that there just weren't enough people to get the word out, at least not before shit hit the fan in LA.
I was going to make that same crack, about the cop stockpiling water, so clearly someone in charge knew some bad things were happening, and it wasnt just riots.
Now im not saying the Government is a bunch of shady asshats who would hide everything, but our government likes to hide things for "national security" reasons, so if the news might cause all hell to break loose they would hide it.
I liked the CDC episode, it gave hints but not too many, and it gave some of them hope where they may have had none before. Plus it gave a little insight into these zombie types, that were later confirmed in the killing of shane and his resurrection. But we still dont know if it was airborne or waterborne, or what, so we got some insight without too much, which was good.
And if the shit hit the fan that fast, then the military would have little time to properly react, leaving them very vulnerable.