Fear The Walking Dead, Welcome To The Club: Things To Note
By Liam O'Leary
7) What “opportunity” (As Virginia calls it) has Strand wasted? We learn later that he insisted on being with Alicia. Did he turn down some higher position in favor of sticking with her?
8) Upon seeing Daniel (And learning of his condition), Strand reminds Daniel that he told Strand to “Remember who you are in there”. These are the last words Daniel said to Strand before the two were separated by the Pioneers in the season five finale, “End Of The Line”.
9) When Strand and Alicia arrive at the sugar refinery, they watch as a “2nd Chancer” attempts to flee the settlement, only to be shot in the back by a ranger perched in a sniper’s nest. Did anyone bother to put that guy down? He was only shot in the back…he’d turn. Whether he did turn or whether he was put down is never addressed
10) Why, exactly were there so many walkers in the molasses warehouse? Was the sugar refinery the base of another group? Did Virginia kill them?
11) Ben and Adrienne are the fifth and sixth named characters to die this season, respectively, the second and third to die in this episode, as well as the second and third Pioneers. Man, those guys started dropping like flies all of a sudden in this episode.
12) Why didn’t the molasses warehouse walkers get distracted by Strand hitting the RV’s horn? In most instances, this works (In fact, The Walking Dead season ten finale, “A Certain Doom”, was focused quite heavily on this very tactic). Sanjay explains this by saying “They’ll choose fresh meat every time”. Okaaaaay, but, if you recall, in Walking Dead’s season eight midseason finale, “How It’s Gotta Be”, it’s implied (Considering Eugene was experimenting with the principle a few episodes earlier) that Eugene not only used sound to clear out the herd of walkers that had breached the Sanctuary, but…he’d also done so under a circumstance where the walkers were presented with “fresh meat”, since they were inside the Sanctuary and could see the people in it, soooo…what’s the deal, here?