Fear The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: Striking The Balance

Fear the Walking Dead season 7 episode 14

Going to extremes in a zombie apocalypse is bad. As we learn in this week’s Fear The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week, you must strike a balance.

This week’s episode of Fear The Walking Dead, “Divine Providence,” was great. It wove together the intertwined relationships of so many of our characters (putting particular focus on our three remaining originals). This episode looked at their motivations, how they’ve evolved and what they’re trying to achieve at this point in the apocalypse.  It also looked at how those things logically led to their actions within the episode. It was a great display of consistency and logic in writing. I loved it.

Something else I loved in this week’s episode was the struggles we saw our principal characters go through, each one tailored to their arcs and representing two sides to ethical, moral, and philosophical questions that naturally come about in the environment of the zombie apocalypse.  Because of this, I’ve decided that, for this week’s Survival Rule Of The Week, I’m going to address a few of these questions, and try to lay out why striking the balance between the two ends, challenging as that may be, is the best course of action, should you find yourself faced with similar choices. Hopefully, by the time I’m through, you understand what to do, why you should avoid the extremes of either side of these dilemmas, and why it will help you to survive.