It cannot be said that the first sequence of the episode “Mourning Cloak” (7×10) by Fear the Walking Dead (since 2015) is too shocking. It is limited to showing how the situation has evolved in the tower of Colman Domingo’s Victor Strand, definitively converted into a villain since this seventh season, for certain characters, to introduce some new ones and the return of others.
Young Ali is played by Ashton Arbabwhom we had only seen in the episode “Something Old” (8×23) of how I Met Your Mother (2005-2014) or in Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013), nothing of much relevance. And of Alexa Nisenson’s Charliewhich is involved in Fear the Walking Dead From “Another Day in the Diamond” (4×02), we didn’t know from “Reclamation” (7×06).
It seems fair to us, pure narrative decency, that they dedicate an episode to her because she is one of the most neglected survivors in this AMC fiction. At least, because she is not usually the protagonist; and she has had to match Lennie James, who plays Morgan Jones, repeating in the direction after “Welcome to the Club” (6×02) and “Till Death” (7×05), for this opportunity.
Imagining a new ‘crossover’ in the zombie apocalypse
It is soon insisted during “Mourning Cloak” to offer different scenarios with a dusty bowling alley; Like the showrunners Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg decided in the previous chapter, “Follow Me” (7×09), with an equally empty auditorium, and eight other places from the Abigail yacht between “The Good Man” (1×06) and “Children of Wrath” (3×08 ). An good incentive from Fear the Walking Dead.
On the other hand, given Charlie’s abilities, one wonders what he could accomplish. If I teamed up with the wily Carol Peletier, played by Melissa McBride in the mother series (since 2010). unite them with a crossover fat in the future would not be a bad idea; especially since the second has already lost people she loved and the teenager could build another bond with her.
Specifically, Madison Lintz’s Sophia Peletier was her biological daughter, and she knows that she has lost her in the tremendous finale of Pretty Much Dead Already (2×07); and that Matt Lintz’s adoptive Henry has been taken from him in “The Calm Before” (9×15) with what is identified as the Red Wedding of The Walking Deadin reference to the one in the chapter “The Rains of Castamere” (3×09) of Game of Thrones (2011-2019).
The most disappointing thing about this episode of ‘Fear the Walking Dead’
The zombie mousetraps that the characters get into, voluntarily on many occasions, are a classic in the AMC franchise, and “Mourning Cloak” repeats it; and in the stratagem of launching them suddenly against the enemy. So none of these elements can call our attention. Only, hidden motivations and shifting loyalties we are interested
Both things, outlined in the script of the British Nazrin Choudhury and the American Calaya Michelle Stallworth. One has written five episodes with it since the aforementioned “Welcome to the Club”, and the other, also “Reclamation”, after participating in the ten apocalypse with walking corpses different from the one in Fear the Walking Deadthe one from the miniseries day-break (2019).
They provide us in the last section of this chapter, in addition, some quirky pictures for its extravagance, but its beauty is reduced by a certain topical montage of romantic drama. But what disappoints the most is not the latter or that they do with Ali the same as with Gus Halper’s Will in “The Beacon” (7×01), but the ingenuity that there is no retranca in Charlie’s behavior. What a pity.