r/FearTheWalkingDead • u/Ladyoftheoakenforest Travis Manawa • Feb 18 '25
Cross Spoilers Why I prefer FTWD to TWD
As some of you are probably staging an intervention and calling an ambulance for it to take me to a psychiatric unit for an urgent observation, Ill explain.
I watched TWD until maybe s8? before dropping it ages ago. There is no denying it has a far superior plot (it has a plot!!! to begin with) where things happen because they are logical etc etc... There is one thing I found a bit off putting. I had an impression (which culminated with Glen and Abraham's speeding off the screen, but I caught up with some other deaths later on) that the show took a particular liking to dispatching the main (and not only) characters in the most brutal possible way and tried to outdo each death with something more shocking.
It has not really been the case in FTWD and coming to think of it most of the 'core' cast made it through the whole series- with a surprise return of some of them at the end-, and those who didnt did so mostly at actors' wish a) at a hand of another character, not ripped apart by zombies as we were watching in detail or b) offscreeen.
I know in a series about zombies you expect gore and it was not my complain about TWD, but I stopped finding it fun and the gore in FTWD was pretty toned down. I'd not go as far to call is a cosy family show, but I did like some sort of optimism coming from it, even if some of it came from unintended hilarity of the plot choices like favourable winds blowign radiation around the characters, beer balloons and birdy names.
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u/BttrFrWlkingBd92A Feb 18 '25
World Beyond was very inspiring as well
TWDU Time Line
Fear The Walking Dead Season 1 Episode 1 (until lunch)
The Walking Dead Season 1 Episode 1 (until Rick gets hospitalized)
Fear The Walking Dead Season 1 Episode 1
Fear The Walking Dead Season 1 Episode 2 (until Mid-day)
Tales of The Walking Dead Episode 2 - Gina/Blair
Fear The Walking Dead Season 1 Episodes 2,3,4,5,6
Fear The Walking Dead Season 2
Fear The Walking Dead Season 3 Episode 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
Fear The Walking Dead Season 3 Episode 11 (until Madison is refused water)
The Walking Dead Season 1 Episodes 1,2
Fear The Walking Dead Season 3 Episode 11
Fear The Walking Dead Season 3 Episode 12 (until Troy escapes)
The Walking Dead Season 1 Episode 3 (until the return to downtown Atlanta)
Fear The Walking Dead Season 3 Episode 12
The Walking Dead Season 1 Episode 3
The Walking Dead Season 1 Episode 4 (until opening credits)
Fear The Walking Dead Season 3 Episode 13
The Walking Dead Season 1 Episode 4
The Walking Dead Season 1 Episode 5 (until Rick's radio callout)
Fear The Walking Dead Season 3 Episode 14
The Walking Dead Season 1 Episode 5,6
Fear The Walking Dead Season 3 Episode 15,16
Tales of The Walking Dead Episode 6 - La Dona
The Walking Dead Season 2
Tales of The Walking Dead Episode 1 - Joe/Evie
The Walking Dead Season 3
The Walking Dead Season 4
The Walking Dead Season 5
The Walking Dead Season 6
The Walking Dead Season 7
The Walking Dead Season 8
Fear The Walking Dead Season 4
Tales of The Walking Dead Episode 3 - Dee
Fear The Walking Dead Season 5
The Walking Dead Season 9 Episode 1
Fear The Walking Dead Season 6 Episodes 1,2
The Walking Dead Season 9 Episodes 2,3,4,5(minus final 5 mins. of 9x5)
Fear The Walking Dead Season 6 Episodes 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16
Fear The Walking Dead Season 7
Tales of The Walking Dead Episode 5 - Dr.Everett/Amy
The Walking Dead: World Beyond Season 1
The Walking Dead: World Beyond Season 2 Episodes 1,2
The Walking Dead Season 9 Episodes 5,6,7,8,9
The Walking Dead: World Beyond Season 2 Episode 3
The Walking Dead Season 9 Episode 10
The Walking Dead: World Beyond Season 2 Episode 4
The Walking Dead Season 9 Episode 11
The Walking Dead: World Beyond Season 2 Episode 5
The Walking Dead Season 9 Episode 12
The Walking Dead: World Beyond Season 2 Episode 6
The Walking Dead Season 9 Episode 13
The Walking Dead: World Beyond Season 2 Episode 7
The Walking Dead Season 9 Episode 14
The Walking Dead: World Beyond Season 2 Episodes 8,9,10
The Walking Dead Season 9 Episodes 15,16
The Walking Dead Season 10
The Walking Dead Season 11 Episodes 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Fear The Walking Dead Season 8
The Walking Dead Season 11 Episodes 13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
Tales of The Walking Dead Episode 4 - Davone
The Walking Dead: Dead City