Fear the Walking Dead: 3 issues that have to be fixed from Season 5A
Fear the Walking Dead has to fix some serious issues from Season 5A, or the series will soon be as dead and brainless as the zombies.
What does everyone love about Fear the Walking Dead? Primarily, it’s a character-driven drama in the zombie apocalypse where we all discover the living are just as dangerous, if not more so, than the dead. Despite the stretch of the imagination including zombies, there needs to be some reality in the series to make it enjoyable. Otherwise, we can just give everyone super-powers so they can survive whatever the ZA throws at them.
Moving into the second half of Season 5 there need to be four resolutions. First, Alicia needs to somehow get over being sprayed by toxic zombie blood, even though the entire first half of the season made it out to be a death sentence. Without Alicia, the show dies. Full stop. The next three issues are a bigger problem.
1. Abundant supplies
So a portion of 5A revolved around this bad gas conundrum. They needed a plane (check), a hot air balloon (check), and some gas. But not just any gas, plane gas. Because Al knows all about the chemical composition of all fuel types.
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Naturally, the fact that cars and trucks were plentiful and full of gas during nearly every other episode—with the keys dutifully placed above the visor or in the glovebox—meant nothing to the future. The gas is “bad,” and they have to figure out what to do.
That’s understandable, and to be quite honest, long overdue. People would have been hoarding gas and any other type of fuel the second the poop hit the fan.
Similarly, there would have been mass stockpiling of weapons, ammunition, medication, and one other key item: batteries. Anything and everything related to power would have been a powerful commodity.
Luckily the crew on Fear the Walking Dead have a never-ending supply of batteries for their walkie-talkies that come in ten-packs for everyone in the group. When something goes wrong, they randomly happen upon places that have not only batteries and radios, but radios that are easily configured or interoperable with the current set of radios. The new Deus Ex Machina model from Duracell.