Will Fear The Walking Dead Reveal Everyone Is Infected In Season One?

The world of The Walking Dead is a wild one.  With Fear The Walking Dead just around the corner, we’ve felt the roller coaster ride of emotions that the original show and the comics have brought us on up to this point.  Watching how the hit AMC program has brought to life the story that Robert Kirkman created for us was amazing, but seeing it from two different angles has been interesting.

Now, five seasons of The Walking Dead and over 140 issues of the comics have set the rules for what the franchise feels and does.  Fear The Walking Dead has a well established set of rules that it has to follow going forward.  Now, it is their turn to try to show people reacting to the idea of a zombie outbreak and learning everything again.

One detail that surprised some viewers of the show was that every living human being is infected with the virus that turns people into one of the undead flesh-eating monsters.  It doesn’t even require a bite, scratch, or contact with a walker before they can become one of…them.

Interestingly enough, it seems like the survivors on Fear The Walking Dead will learn this information pretty quickly according to an interview with Robert Kirkman on Entertainment Weekly’s website:

"“So you are going to get to see that the characters learn that they’re all infected in a much different way. But all the rules do apply and are the same. That will be some of the fun if you’re watching both shows,” Kirkman explained."

If the survivors in Los Angeles learn this information so early on in the outbreak, how hasn’t that information been relayed to the survivors from places like Georgia and Texas not have heard this information before communications were shut down?  It was a considerable amount of time between the initial stages of the outbreak and when Rick Grimes woke from his coma, yet none of the other survivors on The Walking Dead knew this information prior to their visit to the Center for Disease Control.

What do you guys think?  Should Fear The Walking Dead give away the information about everyone being infected during their first season when The Walking Dead didn’t know until season 2 and takes place much later in the timeline?  Or should they wait until later on in the new companion series to break this news?  Let me know what you think in the comments below.

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