We chatted to the Fear The Walking Dead showrunner about character deaths, spoilers and his departure…
Warning: contains major spoilers forFear The Walking Dead.
He also felt that he had to make good on a promise he had made to Liza.
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We made some adjustments really early on.
We decided that Nick will be reunited with Madison in the premiere and essentially the story didnt change.
So in that respect, I mean from a story perspective, I think its helpful.
Thats a long winded way of saying that its my fault!
He cant go back to who he was and he cant just be that aggressive all the time.
The fact is it was not something he was able to share in.
That was the end, anyway.
And talking of departures fromFear The Walking Dead youre leaving at the end of season 3.
There is not a lot of family time.
And then I think it was just time to try something thats perhaps less zombie centric!
But I think thats it essentially.
We have talked about that to be honest [laughs]!
Let everybody go in one fell swoop and let them get on with it.
I am curious to see where it goes.
It will be exciting.
And do you have a favourite episode?
I also thought it was a nice balance with present day jeopardy and a little more backstory.
Probably those two I think 2-08 and 3-08 right now, are two of my favourites.
And in the first half of the season those things seem to be gone.
Whats interesting to me and it will start to develop, is his relationship with Troy.
I think hes realized that character in very compelling way so that was exciting.
And then there were some that were always it was always forecast, it was always planned.
I think her entire family will suffer for it.
I mean when she shares…
I mean its her learning the family and then manipulating it.
Well see Nick and Alicia do it to a certain degree as well.
Dave Erickson, thank you very much!
Fear the Walking Dead airs Mondays at 9pm on AMC, exclusive to BT.
