Fear The Walking Dead, SROTW: Giving Up Is Not An Option

Fear the Walking Dead season 7 episode 15

If there’s one lesson we can take from Alicia’s final episode of Fear The Walking Dead, it’s that, in a zombie apocalypse, giving up is not an option.

This past Sunday’s episode of Fear The Walking Dead “Amina” marked Alicia’s departure from the show. It was a weird, literal “fever dream” of an episode, with Alicia constantly talking to a hallucination of her younger self. She also did things she didn’t remember, attributing them to the little girl who was her constant companion who wasn’t really there. Like I said: It was weird.

Throughout this week’s episode, there was one constant theme: You can not give up in a zombie apocalypse. It was very much the crux of the whole thing, with Alicia’s younger self continually egging her on to keep going in spite of her own conscious belief that she would not survive the fever which kept knocking her out during the episode. She continually tried to convince her conscious self and the hallucination of herself that she couldn’t carry on.

I find this such an important concept in an apocalypse. For this week’s Survival Rule Of The Week, I’m going to discuss not only what you shouldn’t give up on but also why you can’t give up and what doing so can cost you. If there is one lesson I give that you should hang on to, it’s this one.