The nuclear blast detonated at the end of Fear the Walking Dead's season 6 is set to send shockwaves throughout the entire Walking Dead universe. Set years prior to the central The Walking Dead timeline, the closing moments of Fear the Walking Dead season 6 saw John Glover's evil cult leader Teddy detonate ten nuclear warheads across Texas to bring about his vision of a new beginning for the world. The season ultimately ended with Colman Domingo's Victor Strand allowing this to happen, eventually rising from the ashes and promising to create a new world of his own.
In the wake of the nuclear detonation, season 7 of Fear the Walking Dead will see Strand and Lennie James' Morgan Jones attempt to rebuild in their own individual ways. The recent season 7 trailer teased that the show may be building to a stand-off between the two men. This confrontation is something Fear has been indicating for a long time, considering the fact the two often have very different ways of approaching matters. Season 7 will also see Morgan eventually come face to face with the show's Civic Republic Military (CRM), tying the narrative of Fear into the wider events of the Walking Dead universe.
Per Comicbook.com, during his appearance on the Talking Dead podcast, Fear showrunner Andrew Chambliss promised that season 6's explosive finale will have significant repercussions not just in Fear, but in the primary Walking Dead and The Walking Dead: World Beyond as well. Chambliss said that the event would change the world "fundamentally," adding that the finale is "definitely going to send shockwaves beyond Texas and the characters on this show." Chief Content Officer for TWD, Scott Gimple, also teased the impact further in his own statement. Read Gimple's comments below:
"There's certain people [in TWD Universe] who are aware of [the nuclear blasts], and there's certain people who aren't, and there's certain ways that it feeds story. But we lead with each of these shows with the characters of these shows first, with how it affects those characters on those shows. It's definitely about the individual journeys rather than the mythology. Those serve the mythology in that we get a peek at more through them."
With each of the shows in the Walking Dead universe taking place in different times and locations (Fear is set in Texas, World Beyond in Nebraska, and TWD in Georgia), the shows have tended to exist within their own microcosms. However, as Chambliss notes, a nuclear detonation is a big enough event to have ramifications on a wide range of characters. Even though the main Walking Dead series is years ahead of Fear, it would be impossible to have such a ground-breaking event go ignored.
The fact that the nuclear event has to yet come up in TWD does feel strange. However, there is the loophole that would allow certain characters to be unaware of the detonation. If the narrative is ultimately going to connect it to the other series, it's more than likely that the CRM will be the key means through which this information is imparted. After all, they are the only group to appear across all three shows. There will likely be other characters who witnessed the detonation, or lost people to it, that will eventually appear in the wider Walking Dead mythos, and fans will no doubt be excited to see how this plays out. For now, the impact of the detonation remains just one of many unanswered questions going into season 7 of Fear the Walking Dead, including what role the CRM will have in the building the bubbling tension between Morgan and Victor.
Source: Comicbook.com