Fear the Walking Dead
Spoilers are beforehand forFear The Walking Dead ’s serial publication finale .
Summary
An spotty conclusion to an discrepant spinoff series , Fear The Walking Dead ’s serial finale is packed with cockeyed minute . Created by Robert Kirkman , one of the amusing - book of account source material ’s creators , and Dave Erickson , Fear The Walking Deadis a spinoff of AMC ’s mega - hitThe Walking Dead . Much like the franchise ’s parent series , however , reverence The Walking Deadfaced a stark free fall in qualityacross its 8 - time of year run . At first , the series pore on a blended family , the Clarks , and their experiences in the other sidereal day of the zombie apocalypse . Over time , Madison ( Kim Dickens ) , her daughter Alicia ( Alycia Debnam - Carey ) , and other key characters become hardened survivors .
InFear The Walking Dead ’s serial ending , the ups and down feather proceed . Tasked with finding satisfy endings for its many characters ; roll up the show ’s loose thread ; andkeeping the door undecided for future spinoffs and crossovers(namely with the enfranchisement ’s other subsist spinoffs , Daryl DixonandDead City),Fear ’s season 8 , sequence 12 , " The Road Ahead , " had a mickle to tackle . For the most part , Fear The Walking Deadseason 8 ’s castof characters welcome meet conclusions — even if the plot points that delivered them to those endings were absurd or riddled with unbelievable coincidences .
10Madison Experiences Memories Of Moments She Never Witnessed
When the unseasoned Tracy Otto ( Antonella Rose ) , Troy ’s ( Daniel Sharman ) malcontent daughter , learns that Alicia Clark is her mother in the penultimate episode of FearThe Walking Dead , thing take a twist . Of course , Tracy is not in reality Alicia ’s daughter , as Alicia herself later confirms in the series finale . Still , Troy ’s speculate reveal sends Madison running into the wood after Tracy , while image of Alicia and the late Nick ( Frank Dillane ) flash across the cover . It ’s heavily implied that the situation is prompting Madison to commemorate moments with her own kids , butthe cartridge clip used are largely moments she would n’t have memory of , which is jarring for TV audience .
9Alicia’s Small Necklace Stops A Bullet
Before Alicia and Madisonreunite inFear The Walking Dead ’s series finale , Madison end up surviving a gunfire because of her daughter — sort of . clear she ’ll have to make hard choices to make it , Tracy fritter away Madison and leaves her for dead . At this point , Tracy is ( understandably ) upset about her father ’s dying and very much unwilling to believe that she ’s at all related to to the Clarks . Later on , it ’s revealed thatMadison live on the shot thanks to Alicia ’s necklace , which stopped the smoke from record her body . Ridiculous on many levels , the necklace - as - armour is one of the show ’s more contrived moments .
8Madison Survives The Huge Explosion At PADRE
Inspired by her providential , life - saving necklace minute , Madison use her second luck at life to revolutionize Tracy . Instead of sit this one out , she go away to PADRE , eager to doctor the vernal daughter ’s faith in scrap for the majuscule good — for something better — Madison chooses empathy over stale - hearted survivalism . to destroy the incoming Walkers , she fall the whole space on flaming , with herself still inside . Somehow , thanks to an oxygen tank and an undercover cellphone refuge , Madison is shielded from the blast . Madison surviving the Brobdingnagian burst at PADRE is laughable , but it also tracks with the dealership ’s past death - cheat moments .
7Tracy Digs Madison Out Of The Rubble (Somehow)
As if Madison ’s two wild instances of selection were n’t enough on their own , Tracy has a change of eye and make up one’s mind to deliver Madison from the rubble . Not only does the young kid have to toil Madison out of the post - fire debris , but Tracy ’s saddled with dragging Madison away from the ruination and administering enough medical care ( and antibiotic ) to ascertain Madison subsist to see another day . In past instalment ofThe Walking Dead , kids have done miraculous , unrealistic affair , butthis convenient deliverance might take the cake .
6Skidmark Really Does Have Nine Lives
5Tracy Is Remarkably Chill About Madison Killing Her Dad
manifestly , Tracy has a very solid initial chemical reaction to Madison killing her father . What comes next is full of ups and downs , thanks in tumid part to Troy ’s final lie about Alicia being Tracy ’s mother . While Tracy does shoot Madison and provide her to die , all is soon forgive after Madison direct the horde of Walkers out and volitionally sacrifices herself in the fiery PADRE explosion . On a thematic tier , Madison ’s action indicate her change of nerve — a desire to pass down empathy and love to a new generation of subsister . It just seemsincrediblyconvenient that Tracy ’s change of heart follows suit so quickly .
Fear the Walking Dead ’s serial finale included a villain redemption arc that answer as a monitor of how Negan ’s story should have gone all along .
4Troy Frees Himself From A Branch (But Only When Madison Arrives)
After being run off the road , Troy terminate up impaled by a tree branch . In trueWalking Deadfashion , this very intelligibly life story - threatening wound does n’t really kill the show ’s think grownup bad . Instead , it just keep him pinned to the car , even as risk hover . In fact , he could n’t be bothered to resign himself from the tree branch situation — until Madison arrives . When Madison bring her sledgehammer down , the weapon prompts Troy to shin out of the automobile , thoughhe remains spit by the tree branch . Madison spares Troy — he still needs to severalise his bighearted Alicia Trygve Halvden Lie . It ’s just such a idiotic series of events .
3Dwight Decides To Take Everyone To “Sanctuary” Instead Of Alexandria
Dwight ( Austin Amelio ) , a reluctant former lieutenant in Negan ’s ( Jeffrey Dean Morgan ) Saviors group , is exiled from Virginia by Rick Grimes ( Andrew Lincoln ) inThe Walking Dead . In fact , Daryl Dixon ( Norman Reedus ) claims he ’ll kill Dwight if he ever sees the ex - Savior again . On the aerofoil , this might explain whyDwight decides to lead Sherry back to the ruined Sanctuary — the home to Negan ’s Saviors — or else of the perfectly wonderful Alexandria community . Still , given all the psychic trauma associated withDwight ’s time inThe walk Dead ’s Sanctuary(and its dilapidated state ) , it seems like a terrible , garbled move .
2"I Heard The Chatter On The Radio" Trope
Throughout the season 8 finale , character showdown are made convenientthanks to one overused trope : the radio set . Apparently , a long ton of disparate characters find out enough wireless chatter to nail one another ’s precise locations . The character of Crane ( Daniel Rashid ) , the PADRE co - drawing card , hears Troy ’s tuner conversation , which allows him to not only locate Troy , but prepare a Hell and tripwire ambush . Later , Crane rule Victor Strand ( Colman Domingo ) thanks to more tuner chatter . To top it all off , Alicia and Madison ’s emotional reunification was made possible , in part , by the radio receiver . Somehow , Alicia even hears the story of her mother ’s theorize sacrifice at PADRE thanks to the ready to hand machine .
Fear The Walking Dead has the opportunity to utilize its ending to conduct into other TWD spinoffs . All it adopt is one twist postulate a known administration .
1The Corny “MADRE” Name Change
Although PADRE ends up a smoulder raft of rubble , Madison make unnecessary its indweller . In recognition of Madison ’s apparent forfeiture , the grouping changes its name and mission in Madison ’s honor . Now call MADRE , the mesh spreads out across the zombie - satiate wastes , aiming to help those in pauperism . Madison and Alicia dissemble to be deadened , desire their friends — and those who were influenced by their selflessness — will remain inspired by their ostensible forfeit . While the unconventional close putting its characters on their own paths is interesting , the MADRE name modification is one ofFear The Walking Dead ’s more absurd ( and cheap ) choices .
