Decent episode, but f**k me - Alicia!  Talk about a liability! I know we've got the comfort of knowing how the apocalypse goes in TWD land, but seriously, FFS! Chris is a bit irksome, but just mopes around mostly, whereas Alicia is in cloud cuckoo land dreaming of kittens and unicorns - get real, lass, shit's going down! I hope her character straps on a bit of common apocalypse sense soon.
Good to see Travis take the harsh, but pragmatic route regarding that boat load of people. I mean, really, what could they have really done? They've got no real food on the boat, they don't know who is on that stricken vessel, if any of them are infected, or if any of them are liable to do something mind-bendingly stupid or just downright violent. They'd be vastly outnumbered and the situation could go south pretty damn quick ... harsh as it was, they made the right call.
Salazar is indeed the most intriguing character, with Strand a real mystery, and I dig Travis quite a bit. I also like Nick's character, and Maddie is cool by me ... Chris, Alicia, and Ophelia I don't care about, to be honest. Alicia kind of winds me up a bit, but there would be folks acting like that - especially teenagers - who are thrown into that kind of situation. But how long has it been since she had a wash? She's still got that ruddy heart design drawn on her arm from episode one! 
The propeller to the walker's face was awesome, as was the bleak sight of LA being bombed ... but yeah, I think we've been cheated of some of this 'early collapse of society' stuff that we got some really good tastes of in the first three episodes. Even though we're still quite early in the apocalypse here, must be around about two weeks in, some of the chaos has been sidestepped or just been viewed from a distance, which is a shame. That really early downfall is the show's selling point ... I do fear *pun not intended* that Fear The Walking Dead will just become a very similar show to TWD. Time will tell ... there's interesting stories to tell, but as a series it's less compelling to me than TWD by quite a margin. I rather dig FTWD - it's more of that universe's goodness - but it doesn't hold me in thrall like TWD does. I love TWD. I like FTWD. Only fair to say, really, as FTWD is only 7 episodes old at this point.
Hopefully they can find a way to make FTWD stand out on its own, and earn it's reason for being.
 Originally Posted by JDP
The "conclusion" was shown during one commercial break of the season finale of TWD last week, but at the same time the announcer said that we would get to see the fate of Flight 462 in Fear the Walking Dead. However, it was said in a rather vague way that would tend to (mis)lead you to assume that this would likely be shown during the first episode of this season, but it was not shown what happened to the plane (or at least I must have missed it if it was shown.) If they in fact did not show it anywhere during the season premiere, I guess it is yet another silly and unnecessary AMC trick to keep people tuned in.
Flight 462 is seen over the skies of LA in episode 4 or 5 of FTWD, IIRC - Nick is skulking around the area, looks up, and sees the plane banking from side to side. So time has already passed, the plane will have already landed a while before the events of this episode. Perhaps we'll see a flashback - maybe FTWD will employ those more liberally than TWD does (which is rarely)?
One of the cast of that 462 thingy will be joining the FTWD cast at some point.
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