Fear The Walking Dead, USS Pennsylvania: Things To Note
By Liam O'Leary
IT’S THAT TIME AGAIN!
Tonight is the Fear The Walking Dead season six finale! I have to say I’m sad because this season has been so good. I don’t really want it to end, but it must, and so here we are.
Last week’s episode, like so many this season, was something to watch, with terror, intrigue, betrayal, suspense, and despair. Morgan and his friends traversed the U.S.S. Pennsylvania, filled with walkers and radioactive material, tried to stop Teddy and his plans to obliterate Texas and everyone in it.
We’re nearing the end of this season of Fear The Walking Dead, but we have one last installment of Things To Note before that end comes.
As the episode continued, Strand, trying to prove he isn’t the selfish coward everyone sees him as, forces Morgan to take him along. While he stops Morgan from foolishly walking into an irradiated, walker-filled room, he also, when confronted with much of the ship’s zombified crew, throws Morgan to the herd, steals his ax head, and tries to take on Teddy and Riley himself. He’s delayed by Dakota, who’s now come to fully accept Teddy’s mission, and her (Lack of) place in the world he seeks to create, telling him how Teddy will create a world without “assholes like [Strand].” Before she can kill him, Morgan stops her, puts a pin in Victor’s betrayal, and tries to stop Teddy’s attack.
…But he’s too late.
This is just the obvious stuff. There were a whole collection of hints, clues, references, questions, and trivia that could easily have been overlooked in an episode like this. It’s these that I want to focus on today because anyone could give the bullet points on the big stories, and if you’re here, that’s not what you’re here for.
Are you ready? It’s time for this week’s installment of Fear The Walking Dead: Things To Note!