It looks like the final villains in Fear the Walking Dead are going to fix a major franchise plot hole. As indicated by where things were left in the season 7 finale, the group once thought to be the main characters’ best hope of survival will actually be their next big enemy. Before Fear the Walking Dead ends, Morgan and the others will have to get past PADRE.
It seems the conflict with PADRE will define Fear the Walking Dead’s final season. As the marketing reveals, the upcoming battle will take them further east, with the characters eventually winding up in Atlanta, where Morgan’s Walking Dead story began. When season 7 ended, it was only Morgan and Madison fighting PADRE, but the Fear the Walking Dead season 8 trailer makes it abundantly clear that it won’t take long for everyone in the cast to get drawn into the conflict. From the looks of things, PADRE’s numbers and resources will make them one of the toughest challenges ever faced by Morgan’s group in the AMC series.
PADRE Finally Introduces An Island Community In Walking Dead
Interestingly, one of the advantages PADRE appears to hold is something that’s always been missing from The Walking Dead franchise. The synopsis for the season mentions that PADRE is based on an island. Why PADRE would be there needs no explanation, considering that it’s the most obvious place for a settlement in a post-apocalyptic world filled with zombies. Throughout the Walking Dead timeline, characters have been searching for safe places to call home, but have struggled to maintain them since zombie hordes appear to be inevitable in nearly every part of its world. What they haven’t tried is seizing an island.
Taking control of a small island could be a difficult task, given that it may or may not be populated with zombies who have been there since the start of the zombie apocalypse. But after going through the effort of clearing it, a group of survivors would find some degree of safety. Other humans looking for the same shelter could pose occasional threats, but they wouldn’t have to worry about new zombie hordes arriving. Most of the danger they would face would come from the trips they’d have to take to the mainland to get supplies.
Why The Walking Dead Doesn't Have More Island Survivors
While survivors using islands for shelter in the zombie apocalypse makes plenty of sense, it’s understandable that The Walking Dead franchise has avoided this for so long. Given the geography (and the locations where the shows are filmed), it just wouldn’t work for it to be a regular part of the shows. Not only that, but it would create more narrative roadblocks when it comes to pitting humans against zombies. If characters are actually safe, there wouldn’t be much room for zombie action. In fact, it’s possible that this aspect of it will be what allows Fear the Walking Dead to end. If they can take the island, their long-running fight for survival can finally come to an end.