I wonder how Alaska is holding out in the apocalypse.
Well, let’s not forget that Madison caught Strand speaking Spanish. I don’t think his plan was ever to go to San Diego…especially considering that he was being held by our military in LA.
I got the impression that she was just supposed to be monitoring the radio and reporting anything helpful to Strand (like the Coast Guard broadcast, even if there’s they’re no longer performing rescue it’s still useful to know that).
I can understand monitoring the radio, but is there a parent in this day and age who has NOT told the kids, “DON’T TALK TO STRANGERS?”
I don’t like the fact that we walled up and militarily occupied a whole neighborhood only to abandon them and everyone else, and then bomb the crap out of LA… and we will never get told what was up with that.
Stories need to happen for a reason other than “I’m the writer, and I said so.”
They were trying to destroy concentrations of zombies.
The government wanted safe zones, like Alexandria Safe Zone, for the population. IIRC the military abandoned Alexandria Safe Zone and left the people to their own devices. In L.A. ISTR that the military were to ‘euthanise’ the survivors and then bug out to the Mojave Desert, but they tables were turned when Daniel released the zombies from the Forum. Once the survivors in L.A. had (presumably) been euthanised or else deemed expendable, they attempted to contain the outbreak by destroying the zombies by bombing them.
I won’t be the first to complain that throwing “fear” in the title really signals whatever differentiates the content of this show from its counterpart. It might have sort of worked when the show seemed like it was going to be about the transition to full-blown apocalypse. But that got skipped pretty quickly. They might as well have called it Oh Shit! The Walking Dead!
That’d definitely be where I’d aim that boat instead of Hawaii. Low population so not a huge pool to turn into zombies, but a population with plenty of arms that could be turned on the zombies instead of bears and moose and whatever else they normally sometimes need protecting from up there. And if any place in the US is going to still have gas to keep cars and even generators running, it will. Plus the zombies aren’t likely going to fare so well once things freeze over.
Freezing zombies is a good point, put someone must refine the oil into fuel, and I don’t believe that happens in Alaska.
I was going to mention frozen zombies. Assuming they freeze like meat instead of not-freezing like White Walkers, they would be easy to dispose of.
I still think zombies could be rendered into biofuel. I don’t think either that or the petroleum in Alaska could be turned into very good gasoline (certainly not avgas, which is somewhat vital up there), but I don’t see why low-grade gasoline couldn’t be produced through distillation.
Someone was making diesel from garbage by putting it under pressure.
You would need such a factory, or a refinery. Either would be difficult to build with the Zombie Apocalypse in full swing.
There was a reality TV show a couple of years ago where the premise was that the contestants were survivors of a zombie apocalypse. (It was taped in or near New Orleans, as I recall.) In one episode they made serviceable Diesel fuel by rendering the fat from a truckload of rotting pigs.
Reality TV shows are certainly very true to life. :dubious:
In an emergency, the Idiot Ball can be used as a flotation device.