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.
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.
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).
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.
…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.
As someone in the comments says, it would be awesome to see him take out a zombie with a taiaha!