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12 Reasons Why You Should Watch Fear The Walking Dead Season 3

You were disappointed with the first two seasons of the spin-off of The Walking Dead? Do not be discouraged. Here are 12 reasons to delve into this new season.

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You were disappointed with the first two seasons of the spin-off of The Walking Dead? Do not be discouraged. Here are 12 reasons to delve into this new season.

Sunday evening began the third season of Fear The Walking Dead. Spin off of The Walking Dead, the first two seasons have had trouble convincing the public due to its slower pace than its older sister. Nevertheless, this is not a sufficient reason to lose interest in this series and here are 12 reasons for you to look forward.

1) The return to the origins of the invasion is a good idea and a good new beginning

Image de Nick, Travis et Madison dans le premier épisode de la saison 1 de Fear the Walking Dead

While The Walking Dead made us discover the zombie invasion at the same time as Rick who had just spent an unknown time in a coma, Fear The Walking Dead puts us right from the start of the epidemic, raising the tension crescendo and showing us In six episodes the fall of mankind that will lead to what we all know: the beginning of The Walking Dead.

If you also expected to discover the zombie in chaos in season 1, you have inevitably been disappointed, like many people. But looking back on the first season, we discover a story much deeper than what The Walking Dead had accustomed us.

2) There is a greater psychological impact than in TWD

Image de Nick dans l'épisode 4 de la saison 2 de Fear The Walking Dead

And this undeniable difference from The Walking Dead is the psychological aspect of the characters. A planetary catastrophe like the one experienced by the heroes of the two series should necessarily upset all the codes and rules established. But while The Walking Dead makes us ask how we would react in such and such a situation, like Shane with Otto for example, Fear The Walking Dead shows us this descent into hell. First with Nick, a drug addict who took her girlfriend zombified for a person in a daze before finally fleeing, but also that of the whole family because of the complicated family choices that Travis must have made in the second season. Nick and Travis are clearly the two characters who have evolved most from a psychological point of view and the third season should show us even more.

3) Robert Kirkman is in charge

Image de Robert Kirkman posant avec des zombies de The Walking Dead saison 1

It should not be forgotten that besides the channel that produces, The Walking Dead and Fear The Walking Dead have one thing in common: Robert Kirkman. This creative genius invented among others The Outcast, adapted in series TV with two seasons for the moment, creator of Invincible whose rights of adaptation were bought by the Paramount in 2005 and he very quickly creates the label Skybound at Image Comics for which he will create The Infinite.

4) The Walking Dead also took the time to get started

Image de Rick Grimes dans le premier épisode de la saison 1 de The Walking Dead

We tend to forget it or not to have seen it, but The Walking Dead also took the time to launch his narrative. But like the current series, it arrived at the beginning of the infatuation of the series in 2010 whereas opposite there were not many competitors "serious" on TV as well as cinema. So it was again "new" to see zombies and the series greatly helped the genre to regain its gallons. I invite you for those who would like to learn more about zombie culture to read this certifier file without any spoiler on 84 years of zombie culture.

Now there is Z Nation of Syfy, Helix and The Last Ship were entitled to their "zombies" even though the epidemiological aspect was more marked than in The Walking Dead, the cinema to them right to World War Z, the Call of Duty got their zombie version, George Romero launched into the Zombie comics and even Game of Thrones to right his zombies even though it's something else at that level. So it's difficult to stand out and prove itself. Especially when one to a big sister third most downloaded series in France.

5) The first two episodes of season 3 are awesome! It is a guarantee

Image de Travis Manawa dans le premier épisode de la saison 3 de Fear The Walking Dead

AMC and Robert Kirkman spent the second with the story of Fear The Walking Dead. And the least we can say is that the first two episodes of this season are really great. The rhythm is intense, the plot promises a greater psychological impact and the pace has accelerated drastically. We can no longer say after season 3 of Fear The Walking Dead that the series is soft and tasteless.

6) Trash, but human side this time

Image animée d'un zombie se faisant dévorer par des crabes dans Fear The Walking Dead saison 2

For fans of gore or smaller-scale trash passing, you will not be disappointed with the series. Although we do not see as in The Walking Dead a cult zombie both episodes that shows the talent and creativity of the artists in charge of makeup via organs that are trunks of a zombie bust, another Who has taken the water for too long or a zombie that has been invaded by weeds not to mention Bicycle Girl, certainly the most famous since it is the first one seen in the series, Fear The Walking Dead mixes the trash side and the psychological side that characterizes it. This is particularly striking in season 2 with the zombies on the beach that are eaten by crabs or the episode centered on Nick who eats a cactus. It's trash but a psychological trash. Nevertheless, hemoglobin fans still have their account. Let's not forget that this is The Walking Dead above all.

7) Characters are all getting worse and worse

Image animée du combat opposant Travis à son fils Christopher dans Fear The Walking Dead saison 2

And yes, like a The Walking Dead where the characters remain faithful to themselves despite the hardships and in which the Rick of the last season always reacts like that of the first season despite all the losses that it had, The Travis of the first season is definitely no longer that of the end of Season 2 and Nick alike. Both characters had to make choices and horrible things to survive and they will never be the same again. The choices made by the two protagonists make them fundamentally bad compared to those of The Walking Dead.

8) We hope to see a crossover one day

Image représentant un hypothétique crossover entre Fear The Walking Dead et The Walking Dead

We do not hide it, but the idea of ??a crossover Fear The Walking Dead / The Walking Dead excites us to the highest point. The meeting of Rick's group with Travis and / or Nick's group should be explosive so both sides do not share the same path and the same way of surviving. A lot of tension in the air would be there, but would AMC and the screenwriters agree to move away in such a drastic way from the original comics? We hope so.

9) Zombies are still the main threat of the series

Image de Susan dans la saison 1 de Fear The Walking Dead

While Season 3 of The Walking Dead allowed us to discover the Governor as the main villain, the previous season showed us Shane's downfall due to tough choices for his survival, making the zombie go to the background. The Walking Dead is more a series with zombies and not a series of zombies as in Fear The Walking Dead. But if one or more characters like Negan or the Governor were to come in, hope the zombie will always be the main threat.

10) There is no great hero, alpha character like Rick

Image promotionnelle de la saison 6 de The Walking Dead

The Fear The Walking Dead group, because of its family life in democracy, like The Walking Dead where people had to choose a leader to lead them on the path of survival. Of course, both options have advantages and disadvantages, but as a viewer, one identifies more easily to the family circle than to the band system with a leader. Who has never wanted Rick to die so that the group finally advances in total autonomy and see how it is done?

11) A more varied decor

Image de Nick Clark dans l'épisode 8 de la saison 2 de Fear the Walking Dead

Thanks to Fear The Walking Dead, the viewer travels, changing the atmosphere and decor throughout the seasons. While the first season placed us in the streets of Los Angeles, the second one was traveling on the ocean for the first part and in Mexico for the next. As for the third season, it should see the protagonists return to American soil.

While in The Walking Dead, even though Rick's band has traveled extensively since Season 1, we have stopped seeing a change of scenery by the end of Season 2 when Hershel's farm is attacked by a horde of zombies. It's simple, we see only the city, the forest and still the city. It was only the beginning of season 6 that changed as the characters went to a quarry. Fan of nature, Fear The Walking Dead should please you.

Image de Travis et de Daniel sur un bateau dans la saison 2 de Fear The Walking Dead
Image d'Alicia Clark dans la saison 2 de Fear The Walking Dead

12) The pace of a season is faster than that of The Walking Dead

Image animée de Nick Clark qui se bat contre le Zombie Crabe dans Fear The Walking Dead saison 2

While a season of The Walking Dead always starts with a cliffhanger before softening to the mid-season cliffhanger before reproducing the same pattern until the end of the season, Fear The Walking Dead raises the pressure and puts full of small cliffhangers here and there over the episodes raising tension and giving the final more rhythm and realism.

In conclusion

Despite its particularly slow pace compared to other series and notably the excellent The Walking Dead, which can not be prevented from comparison, Fear The Walking Dead also has its own qualities which, once its big sister forgotten, make a series Unavoidable and which promises good shows in the future. Let's hope it lasts as high as The Walking Dead.

What do you think of this list? Do you agree with us? Would you have added arguments?


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