In Fear The Walking Dead’s second episode of season 6 titled “Welcome to the Club”, we find out that Alicia and Strand are working together to clean up some messes and Daniel appears to have lost his memory. My name is Kent, and for Fear The Walking Dead, I only ask 5 questions and some final thoughts to make this blog a little more compact for your reading pleasure. Any comments in BOLD are written by me. I hope you enjoy.
1. Did you really believe that Daniel had lost his memory? How excited are you at the possible Morgan and Daniel duo?
Bob: Naw, no way! I had a feeling he was all there. This will be great but I mostly want to see Strand and Daniel…. Later. (Certain characters always feel right when they’re together. Strand and Daniel always keep things interesting.)
Raylene: I didn’t believe it at first but he was so adamant that he didn’t know who any of them were. I thought well perhaps the operated on his brain, yes I went way outside of the box. Very pleased with Daniel and Morgan, those two will be a reckoning team. (I was wondering if they should have done something more to dress up Daniel’s head to misdirect fans.)
Kent: I flipped back and forth. Initially, I was convinced that he was playing possum. The biggest reason was that he gave Strand that necklace and that felt important. But him talking to Charlie and him mentioning Ofelia really got me thinking that they were going to make me go sad with Alzheimer’s or just general memory loss, which is always a touchy subject for me. As soon as he saw that Strand was where he was supposed to be and they stayed with Daniel, I knew he was old school, Daniel. They did a good job of making me flip flop though. And vengeful Morgan and Daniel on a mission, oh my. I couldn’t ask for a better pairing. There isn’t a single pairing on Fear that would make me happier.
2. Should Strand have gone with his original plan or did this work out for the best, from your perspective?
Bob: I like where this is all heading. This seemed to work out for Strand. I think he has a long game we don’t see quite yet. (That is one of Strand’s defining characteristics. He is that guy with a plan, a vision, and is playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers.)
Raylene: Strand’s plan just wouldn’t have worked. They need the truck for any successful take over I fear. (And even with the truck, I still think it is too little. Ginny wouldn’t just line everyone up at the same place to take on the truck. So with multiple hit and run tactics, the truck would be taken down easily enough, I think.)
Kent: Strand’s plan was going to get some people killed on both sides and may have not worked. If you’re successful, you have 9 guns and a small army against all of the rangers plus the truck. I just don’t see how that helps give you much of an upper hand against Ginny. Working behind the scenes and within the machine makes more sense. Of course, he didn’t know this would happen. I say that this did work out for the best. Plus, I feel that there is something about that medallion that we don’t know yet.
3. Would Strand’s plan to take out the 9 rangers have worked?
Bob: In no way would this have been met with success. No one is getting one over on all the rangers. It could I ly happen like it did. Pretty organically…(I don’t know what the last sentence is trying to say. I’m guessing easily, but I’m not comfortable changing it.)
Raylene: Sure it could’ve worked, in theory, but then what is your next move once you took over the refinery. (Fine groups in desperate need of sugar and molasses. Make trades. Build an empire. That’s the next move.)
Kent: Yes, of course, it would have. They didn’t have 9 rangers plus 2 super-rangers. The rangers seem incredibly inept and mostly hotheads. Charlie or Janis would have died though. Fact.
4. Did you even remember who Janis is?
Bob: Reading this question, right now without googling the name, I don’t even remember now.
Raylene: I had no clue who she was.
Kent: Nope, because I have the same memory that Daniel was portraying. I still don’t fully remember her, to be honest. The funny thing is, apparently I’m not alone.
So after reading back on previous blogs, in ep 15 of last season, there was some nonsense with a truck on a bridge and Tom and Janis were there. Tom continued to film to show that Ginny’s way was wrong. That is where Janis somehow comes into play.
Also, did anybody remember that Alicia had radiation poisoning or are we supposed to forget that?
5. What are your initial thoughts on Dakota? Can she be trusted? Will she make it beyond this season?
Bob: She might go beyond the season but I don’t think as a main character. She’s okay but she is like Strand and will play whatever angle she can to get away. (I sense a budding romance! Wait…I forgot about Strand’s proclivities. Dakota can be Strand’s padawan.)
Raylene: Dakota is the new Henry fairly useless and causing nothing but headaches for those around her. (But Henry was the Carl replacement and he was super important to everybody. He made Carol go crazy for a full season. Will Dakota cause Ginny to go crazy? If so, I’m in.)
Kent: The girl looks just like you’d expect Ginny’s real-life sister to be. As soon as I saw her, I thought to myself, I haven’t been this sure about something since I declared that Carl and Eugene were the only 2 characters to be alive at the end of TWD. Too soon! I think she will be a fun addition. I also think that Ginny forgives her a couple of times when she helps others, but eventually, Ginny will kill Dakota. It will be glorious. I’m guessing that Ginny can’t trust her, but I want a heel turn in the worst way. Still, I think Ginny kills Dakota by the end of the season.
Final Thoughts – I need your GMA (Glenn Memorial Award) nominee for the dumbest or most unrealistic thing that happened in this week’s episode. We have a lot to choose from. You have the opening scene, Sanjay, the supposed magical weapon, Dakota constantly getting away ala Carl circa 2011, how stupid the 2 dead rangers were, and possibly others.
Bob: Opening scene, 100%. I also can’t understand how once they got the door open, there’s no goo in the floor…. Or not as much to make you believe it flows out of the room when the door opens. (The opening scene was borderline comical in a way that left you shaking your head.)
Raylene: That they believed Dakota saying a weapon was in there. (The whole weapon business, there are times in this show when I want to know why there isn’t a Common Sense Advisor. Every show should have one, minimal.)
Kent: After the opening scene, I wrote down that they really needed to keep the floor clean, but then they actually cleaned it before round 2. So my official GMA nominee this week is the “weapon”. What made any of the characters think that there was going to realistically be anything super useful in a room full of molasses and walkers? Seriously, I want to know what sort of weapon was going to be so epic that it was worth the risk. Ginny still has the truck and a huge force behind her. Were they going to unearth Jason Voorhees? I just sat here thinking, whatever the reveal is, this is going to be a joke. The reveal was actually a clever way out, but the idea was horrendous.