# Walking Dead Spin Off Now has a Title... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 27, 2015, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walking-dead-spin-off-now-has-a-title/716151 "2015-03-27T20:06:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walking-dead-spin-off-now-has-a-title/716151/101 "2015-08-23T21:08:18Z")
About LA and the power grid, and the lack of water, did anyone watch the series _Life After People_? One episode explores how different cities would decay at different rates, depending on location. LA and Washington DC were used. LA is bascially in a desert, DC used to be a swamp. In S.M. Stirling’s Emberverse series there is a description of the roads leading out of LA, that almost two decades after the Change have drifts of mummified corpses lining them. With no water and no power people couldn’t get, on foot, to anyplace fast enough that haddrinking water. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walking-dead-spin-off-now-has-a-title/716151/102 "2015-08-23T21:08:43Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > So here’s my question: if I never watched the original, will I be able to make sense of FOTWD if I start now? I like “virus” stories at least the pilot looks intriguing. Nothing in the spinoff requires having seen the original show. No characters, locations or plots are being carried over. Only the central conceit that zombies exist. They aren’t even carrying over the timeline. The entire first season (six episodes) of the spinoff take place before the pilot of the original show, which starts around five weeks after the outbreak. The spinoff’s first season covers the first three weeks of the outbreak. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walking-dead-spin-off-now-has-a-title/716151/103 "2015-08-23T21:24:28Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > …It makes the zombie threat much worse than any of the old fashioned zombie movies. Which “old fashioned zombie movies” are you referring to? Because **Night of the Living Dead** (which introduced the idea of zombies as flesh-eating corpse instead of Voodoo slaves) followed the rule of every who dies with an intact brain reanimates. It’s only much more recent films (I wanna say the remake of Dawn) where it was explicitly a biological pathogen spread by bites. The Living Dead films never even bothered to explain the cause (not that it’s relevant to the story anywhere). ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walking-dead-spin-off-now-has-a-title/716151/104 "2015-08-23T21:49:22Z")
If the writers include the water issue, this could be amazing and make this show stand out by making things in LA super desperate. LA will literally become a death trap with human survivors at each others throats and killing over bottles of Evian within days of the za. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walking-dead-spin-off-now-has-a-title/716151/105 "2015-08-23T22:19:22Z")
…its so fantastic to see that Cliff Curtis not only gets to headline a series, but he also gets to be a Kiwi in this one. He’s been Mexican, Columbian, an Arab Terrorist, and he was originally cast in this as a Latino, but the writers changed it so now he’s playing a Maori instead. > **[Cliff Curtis on Fear the Walking Dead](https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/71171969/cliff-curtis-on-fear-the-walking-dead)** > > Cliff Curtis is finally getting to be himself in Hollywood – and he's loving it. As someone in the comments says, it would be awesome to see him take out a zombie with a taiaha! ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walking-dead-spin-off-now-has-a-title/716151/106 "2015-08-23T23:03:04Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Good luck with that. 🙂 aw you mean Ron Moore and his Battlestar Galactica crew are to busy? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walking-dead-spin-off-now-has-a-title/716151/107 "2015-08-23T23:07:12Z")
> [@Critical1](#): > > aw you mean Ron Moore and his Battlestar Galactica crew are to busy? They are busy communing with angels. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walking-dead-spin-off-now-has-a-title/716151/108 "2015-08-23T23:47:49Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > I admit I didn’t watch but a few minutes of TWD simply because I didn’t catch it at the beginning and wasn’t sure where to start. The parts I saw were _interesting_ but since I didn’t know the characters it was hard to follow. > > So here’s my question: if I never watched the original, will I be able to make sense of FOTWD if I start now? I like “virus” stories at least the pilot looks intriguing. I suspect you might like it even more as it will feel fresher to you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walking-dead-spin-off-now-has-a-title/716151.md?page=5)