Fear The Walking Dead, Ner Tamid: Things To Note
By Liam O'Leary
6) As day sets in following the night the convoy set up its perimeter, John informs June that it took the group twice as long to do so, and mentions how they’re being run ragged. Knowing the ending of this episode…was all of that part of Logan’s plan?
7) Rabbi Kessner calls the walkers “dead ones”. With this being so…nondescript of a name (Similar to someone simply calling them “the dead”), I’m reluctant to count it as a distinct name for the walkers.
8) According to June, the convoy is up to 36 people. If this is counting Wendell, Sarah, Dwight, Morgan, Al, John, June, Alicia, Luciana, Strand, Charlie, Daniel, Grace, Samora, Max, Annie, Dylan, Philippe (The old dude we saw June patching up in “Channel Four”), Tess, Tess’s son, and, approximately ten more Cackleberry Kids, that leaves around six more people we either haven’t seen yet, or, haven’t been named.
9) While chatting with Dwight, Sarah says that she and Wendell “…have been pounding pavement since before the munchers started munching. Munchers, a shortening of either Sarah’s “skin munchers” or “meat munchers” nicknames for the dead, could be considered a separate name, and therefore (After some careful recounting), be, approximately, the twenty-third (Maybe twenty-fourth, if you count the Rabbi’s “Dead ones” name) distinct name for walkers in Fear The Walking Dead.
10) After the synagogue’s fence falls as John and June try to reach the SWAT truck, we get a shot of the two of them from above as a herd of infected surround the car they’re stranded on, resembling the shot of the walkers crowding the tank Rick wound up trapped in at the end of The Walking Dead’s pilot episode, “Days Gone Bye”.