How Fear the Walking Dead left things with Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey) can allow the series to do its own take on Rick’s story in The Walking Dead season 1. Due to the actions of Teddy (John Glover), Alicia is currently separated from the rest of the cast. In FTWD season 6, Alicia was taken captive by Teddy, who decided that when he unleashed the submarine’s nuclear arsenal, he wanted Alicia to survive the destruction.

To ensure she made it, Teddy imprisoned in a cell located in an underground fallout shelter from the 1950s. Unfortunately, Morgan (Lennie James) and his friends have been unable to learn her whereabouts. Since no one in his group has any idea where she is and Alicia presumably has no way of escaping, the character missed her very first Fear the Walking Dead finale.

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No one finding Alicia means that when season 7 rolls around, she’ll still be in the bunker. If the season 7 premiere delivers a time skip, there’s a possibility the series can use this opportunity to draw inspiration from Rick’s story in The Walking Dead’s first few episodes. When Rick woke up from his coma, he found himself overwhelmed by the existence of zombies and the collapse of civilization. Suddenly thrusting its main character into the apocalypse worked well for Walking Dead season 1, and now this idea could be adapted to the spinoff – but with a unique twist.

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Because of Alicia’s current predicament, the spinoff can do something similar in season 7, albeit to a lesser extent. The Fear the Walking Dead season 6 finale delivered what may prove to be a game-changing development when the ten nuclear warheads touched ground. Though the episode did show the blasts, just how much of an impact they’ll have remains to be seen. If they completely reshape the landscape of the apocalypse by killing most of the people and filling it with irradiated zombies, Alicia could emerge in The Walking Dead season 7 to face a world totally different than the one she was taken from. Just like it was for Rick, Alicia will surely be hit hard by the changes she missed out on.

Alicia is already a survivor who has endured a lot, but by the time she comes out, the other members of Morgan’s group may have already had time to adjust to this new reality. Going in this direction with Alicia would make it possible for Fear the Walking Dead season 7 to skip forward a bit, and use her as a window into a new kind of post-apocalyptic setting. Not unlike how the main show utilized Rick, Fear the Walking Dead can introduce this brave new world through the eyes of Alicia, who, alongside viewers, will be experiencing it for the very first time.

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