Fear The Walking Dead Survival Rule: Our Best Strength/Weakness

During the Fear The Walking Dead season seven finale, a theme emerged: In a zombie apocalypse, our emotions are both our greatest strength and greatest weakness.

As I’ve thought about what to make for this week’s Survival Rule Of The Week, I had to think back to the Fear The Walking Dead season seven finale.  In the process, I feel like I stumbled upon a theme present in that episode.

If you looked at Madison’s situation, both with working for P.A.D.R.E., and the aftermath of doing that work, it became clear that her emotions were used against her, but what hurt her the most was that, after so long doing P.A.D.R.E.’s nefarious bidding, she felt like she’d lost some part of her emotions that she could get back. The compassion she had for other people seemed gone, and, as such, she felt that she was “gone.”

This realization made me wonder if this was going to become a theme in season eight, where P.A.D.R.E. finds ways to manipulate Morgan’s emotions the way they did Madison’s, but, at the same time, we see evidence that their policy of “no attachments” is not as effective as they had hoped when they began their mission, with eventually the attachments between Morgan and his group being the thing that sees them overcome P.A.D.R.E. and their minions.

So, for this week’s Survival Rule Of The Week, I’m going to address how your emotions can be both your greatest strength in the zombie apocalypse and your greatest weakness.