11. 2x05. Captive

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05/11/16 • -1 min

Fear the Walking Dead: A Podcast
Fear the Walking Dead 2x05. "Captive"
Podcast episode 11. "Captive" It's just Bruce and Stephen this week discussing the new episode of Fear the Walking Dead, "Captive." Our crew has retaken the yacht, but can the get back the missing members of their group?
Stephen notes that this episode balances action with character development, in contrast to other episodes that tend to have one or the other. We both like the steak cooking scene and our introduction to Connor. He seems to have taken over rather quickly in the first few days of the apocalypse, having been the cook before. Probably as time goes by in the series, we'll see more capable leaders develop. It seems with the death of modern civilization, people revert quickly to tribalism, humanity's first social structure. It may be that tribalism proves to be the most durable way of organizing society.

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10. 2x04. Hurricane Zombie

Fear the Walking Dead: A Podcast
Fear the Walking Dead 2x04. "Blood in the Streets"
Podcast episode 10. "Hurricane Zombie"
Quinn Warner, Stephen Payne, and Bruce Magee discuss episode 2 x 04: "Blood in the Streets." We find out more about Strand's past in a flashback to the period of Hurricane Katrina. We also encounter pirates and see Nick going on a secret mission.
Nick continues to show his value to Strand by going on a secret mission to bring back Strand's friend. We were confused by his actions as the reason for them only became clear when he met Strand's friend. The takeover of the yacht by a pregnant woman and two guys shows just how little you can trust people when civilization collapses. We liked the flashback to Katrina that showed how Strand became the man he is now. We compared the local collapse of civilization in the aftermath of Katrina to the general collapse of civilization in FTWD. Alicia seems to be developing as a character. Having been fooled by Jack when he was talking to her on the radio, she sets out to trick him in return by acting like she likes him. Madison continues to demonstrate a fierceness in both physical and psychological warfare. Bruce speculates that there will be no safe haven in the Baja, or the show would become an updated Gillian's Isle.

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12. 2x06. Sicut Cervus

Fear the Walking Dead: A Podcast
Quinn Warner, Stephen Payne, and Bruce R. Magee discuss this week's episode. Has our cast finally found a safe haven? At first, the village's in the church look like they're making do during the outbreak, but shortly after the service, they begin to bleed from their eyes and die. Thomas Abigail tries to intervene with the villagers, but he's interrupted by their sickness.
We all liked this episode a lot. It had several interwoven subplots.

Celia Flores, Thomas Abigail's housekeeper, is at the center of one. The villagers are about to attack her when they suddenly die, and it turns out that she poisoned the communion wafers. She also keeps walkers in the wine cellar and worships Santa Muerte.
Another subplot centers on the death of Thomas Abigail, who had been bitten by a walker. Quinn notes that this is the first time Strand loses his cool, and it's clear that his feelings for Thomas are real. We wonder what he'll do next after the loss of his emotional center.
Chris begins to spin out of control when he learns that the group doubts that he had to shoot the hostage last week. He escalates quickly, and we wonder whether he can recover.
The relationship between Ofelia and her father Daniel continues to evolve. She was repelled by learning of his ruthlessness last season; this episode she sees him freeze & has to step in to save him. She's beginning to see his mortality and fragility, and her feeling toward him begin to thaw.