Fear the Walking Dead season 2 was full of great moments.
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Amid this chaos, our band of survivors is trying to get offshore to Strands yacht.
The ever-intrepid Nick uses an outboard motor to puree a zombies face.
Ranger George and his family are making do, biding their time as the world ends around them.
Unfortunately, Georges daughter Willa discovers her fathers secret stash of poison pills.
The pill does its job, and Willa quickly turns.
Well, in Ouroboros, Chris stumbles across a wounded passenger from that planes wreckage.
The man is alive, but just barelyhis broken spine is protruding from his back.
He begs to be put out of his misery.
Whats notable about this is how squeamish Chris is about killing someoneeven in the name of mercy.
Hes just a headstrong kid, after all, rebellious, confused, and teeming with angst.
Hes not a zombie-killer, not yet.
Hell find none of that in the zombie apocalypse, of course.
One suspects hes a pretty troubled kid even under the best of circumstances.
Now, he longs to be useful and powerful, a contributor to his groups daily survival.
Which is why his being gun-shy in Blood on the Streets is so traumatic for him.
The group manages to overpower its captors, gravely wounding Reed in the process.
Chris puts him down, much to the groups horror and surprise.
His insistence that Reed was about to turn does little to assuage anyones fears that Chris is lying.
As we know, this is only the beginning of Chris journey to the dark side.
Lockdown
Episode 7 Shiva
What wouldnt you do for your children?
Celia asks Madison during one of their many strained interactions at the vineyard.
This is an audacious move, considering the moral high ground Madison believes she is standing on.
This is not her home.
These are not her dead.
These zombies are dead to her, literally and figuratively.
Zombies arent an unholy aberration, theyre simply the next stage in humanitys evolution.
We already know Nick is comfortable being around the dead.
Hes just as comfortable camouflaging himself in their blood.
But theres something about his blase approach to this particular encounter thats noteworthy.
Even Rick is uneasy around walkers.
Strand was right to think Nick was made for this apocalyptic world.
The fresh meat is hard for Nick to resist, and before long hes supping hungrily on canine tartar.
(Drinking zombie backwash obviously pales in comparison to eating raw dog meat.)
Drop By
Episode 9 Los Muertos
We all know zombies are drawn to loud sounds.
So it shouldnt be a surprise that Madison and Strands drunken ruckus in the hotel bar would attract walkers.
Jessica and Oscar, the bride and groom, seem happy enough in the nascent moments of their matrimony.
But everything quickly goes to hell when the father of the bride collapses before attacking his daughter.
Was Elena right to lock the guests in the reception hall to prevent the outbreak from spreading?
But how many more hotel guests did locking those doors save?
This is survival at any cost.
LikeBlack Mirror, all of the stories would be loosely connected but take place in the same universe.
Out to Pasture
Chris shoots a farmer who is trying to protect his property from intruders.
But while Travis is desperately trying to reason with both parties, Chris kills the farmer in cold blood.
And I do mean people.
The survivor of the plane crash wasnt turned, nor was Reed (though Chris insisted otherwise).
And now Elias the farmer.
And lets not forget he almost let Madison die and also threatened Alicia.
Plus, he took a kid hostage a few episodes back.
This goes well beyond normal teenage problems.
Chris was a walking tragedy from the beginning of this season.
Its an ignominious end to a controversial character, for sure.
The Frat Bros of the Apocalypse exacerbated the issue by praising what Travis considered Chris more dangerous qualities.
The brutality of their deaths is unlike anything weve seen before onFTWDorTWD.
Maybe its because its violence among the living.
Or maybe its because we understand what is motivating Traviss abject rage.
Or perhaps its because, on some level, this is karmic retribution at work.
And as anyone familiar withTWDknows, honorable people suffer the most in this harsh new world.
