He doesn’t have the same fear that everyone else does.Tension between Madison and Troy on Fear the Walking Dead has been brewing for quite some time now, and it finally comes to a head in the season 3 midseason premiere 'Minotaur' and 'Diviner'. And that’s what he sees in Nick., someone who’ll be highly functional in this world. The wisdom of Victor Strand is finding currency where other people can’t. He’s at a certain level of fearlessness because he should have died many times over. Anyone who’s in recovery tends to channel that addictive personality into something else. They have a hunger and he can understand that. He’s fascinated with the apocalypse and he becomes progressively more fascinated with them. He’s had his moment of clarity when he realizes the world is catching up with him. He would live on the streets, essentially homeless for long periods of time.
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The idea that the people who functioned best in the old world-Travis is an example-are the ones most challeneged in the new one. One of the things we wanted to explore is the idea of reinvention. But now he's actually well adjusted an in this world? Nick is a great character in that, as a heroin addict, he's so impaired in the old world. They’re going to have to dig deep and make it on their own. One of the tragic things about this season is watching that hope extinguished. When you don’t know what’s at the end of the road, there’s hope. We’ll meet someone in episode two and others subsequently who’ll help them start to piece together the devastation. We’re going to be getting information piecemeal. In the original show they didn’t realize that until they got to the CDC. So how are they going to find out just how bad things are? We the audience can take for granted that this is global and it’s a matter of the charaters catching up with this. Which is not to say that with the help of the Abigail we couldn’t find a nook where people haven’t turned.
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We ’re not following the comic so we do have this free rein to do anything we want within the mythology Bob Kirkman has established. In TWD, we've seen that pretty much the whole east coast is filled with walkers. Are you leaving open the possibility that there might be some place on the West Coast where they might take refuge? But is there some place they can go?” They’re trying to understand the scope of the disaster. What Travis and Madison is going through is “We lost Los Angeles.
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They didn’t see the full scope and scale until late in Season 1 and into Season 2. By the time the family realized how bad things were, the National Guard arrived and they took their word that things were going to get better. We were in a relatively insulated world in Season 1.
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Going into season 2 they know what the walkers are. He played our moral compass, He was the one who fought to not go to that place and not sacrifice his humanity.He was forced to do that and take away the mother of his son. We saw that through the character of Travis. They had to understand that they’re unreachable. You’re not going to get something heavy and bludgeon them. But even if you know George Romero, if you’re confronted with someone behaving this way your first instinct is that they’re sick or they’re high.