Crisis On Infinite Midlives

Crisis On Infinite Midlives


Episode 85: Fear The Walking Tropes

August 30, 2015

After a long week of hunting for possible new locations for the Crisis On Infinite Midlives Home Office, we were finally able to sit down and watch the premiere episode of the new AMC spinoff to The Walking Dead, Fear The Walking Dead.

We had reservations about the show going in, such as fears that this might be where we discover what caused The Walking Dead's walkers to start walking, or that a show about the beginning of a zombie apocalypse would be nothing but a new take on a story we've seen in Night of The Living Dead, Dawn of The Dead, and about two dozen different video games, or that a show about the beginning of the end would inevitably become a story about what happens after the end... and we already have that show.

Thankfully, none of those failure were evident. Unfortunately, many others, including inconsistent direction and writing, and a reliance on horror movie tropes of the kind you see on Netflix at 3 a.m. when you're drunk and bored. And we talk about all of them... as well as the stuff that we liked, and gave us hope that there's more to this show than the flaws in its pilot.

We also discuss: Lando #3, written by Charles Soule with art by Alex Maleev, and: Hank Johnson: Agent of Hydra, written by David Mandel with art by Michael Walsh!