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On this episode 53 of Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through, Brian and Kyle are joined again by our special guest co-host Mark from The Walking Dead Talk Through, as we talk through Fear the Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 2, which is titled, The Hurt That Will Happen. This was written by Alex Delyle, and directed by Jessica Lowrey.

Before we get into this week's episode, we have to share more feedback we received for last week's episode, S5E1 Here to Help. Discussion on this week's episode starts at 31 minutes and 15 seconds into the podcast.

Strand leaves to see if he can get a plane from Daniel, who we see is living in a compound near El Paso. Some were a little confused about why Strand went alone, myself included. If he was worried he would be shot for his trouble, why not bring someone with him, like Charlie? Daniel's not going to shoot a girl, but he goes alone, and he doesn't take the SWAT truck. Daniel welcomes him inside but doesn't give him the plane. There was a mixed response over Daniel's return to the show. People who haven't watched all of the first four seasons had trouble understanding the complicated relationship between Strand and Daniel, but if you have been watching, you got it.

We see something new this episode: Radioactive walkers. You can't kill them in close combat - you can only shoot them. This is a little confusing to the viewer. I don't exactly understand why a simple touch could kill you, but OK.

They continue to struggle with what to do with Luciana. The accordion talk just didn't work. With the injury she has, you would think she would have been given some strong painkillers that would have made her slur her speech, but she instead makes some crazy talk about accordions. Now, as mentioned on the podcast, I have heard of people losing their filters after a heavy medication, but I would have expected her to slur her speech, act slow and be groggy. We saw none of that them. Lara said it and I think she got it right. The biggest problem is, once they got rid of Nick, the showrunners don't seem to know what to do with her character. I appreciate the attempt at humor, but it seems a combination of bad writing, bad directing and strange acting choices (which may or may not be Danay Garcia's fault) took the character off in a strange direction. I think they need to try something else.

This week, FTWD ratings were lower from last week, as expected, but not drastically so. S5E2 The Hurt That Will Happen got a 0.51 in the 18-49 demographic with 1.687 million viewers, down from the last week's 0.59 and 1.966 million viewers. As mentioned last week, there was no Talking Dead this week.

On this episode 52 of Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through, Brian and Kyle are joined by our special guest co-host Mark from The Walking Dead Talk Through, as we talk through Fear the Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 1, which is titled, Here to Help. This was written by showrunners Ian Goldberg & Andrew Chambliss, and directed by Michael E. Satrazemis.

The rest of this blog post requires a SPOILER WARNING!!! If you haven't watched this week's episode, then you should probably stop reading now.

We were fairly critical of many of the decisions made by the showrunners last season, particularly Madison's death, and we had all sorts of problems with the second half storyline, to the point where I wasn't sure I'd want to come back and podcast about the show. However, with the promise of helping people as a story in Season 5, and a really good trailer, we decided to continue on podcasting about Fear the Walking Dead!

We see how far they would go to try to help people. They get a plane. Now, do we understand that Althea (and possibly Strand) are pilots, or did they read a book or play a flying simulator to prepare for the journey? That wasn't very clear; and where exactly did they get that plane? How did they get fuel for the plane? Who knows. Maybe they will explain it next week. That said, it seems REALLY risky to fly a plane in the apocalypse, especially if you aren't an experienced pilot.

One thing I had a hard time resolving is why they had such a hard time find people that needed their help. Helping a big group? Sure, maybe I can buy that, but I had a problem believing they hadn't picked up any individuals to join up with them. Surely, after a few months, they would have had to run into someone, but they hadn't.

I am really torn about Logan. If the denim plant is really his, then why shouldn't he be able to take it back? It's pretty clear it wasn't a con job to me. He knew the combination and too much about the plant to think it could be anything other than what he said. Maybe in the zombie apocalypse, property and deeds don't matter anymore, but I can't really blame him for doing what he's done, especially since he did it without any bloodshed. That said, why did it take him so long to claim what's his? Did he have to send them so far away that they needed a plane to get there?

She is not my favorite character, and a lot of people agree with me. I was surprised to see her start the season injured again. They had a great opportunity to kill off her character, so I hope they have something planned for her this season that will be worth it. To me, I had to wonder why they would injure her again. Why not someone else?

I have to admit, I missed the symbols reference. It was only the mention on Talking Dead that alerted me to it. In case you missed it, too, those circle symbols on the paperwork were also on the helicopter that saved Rick, so they may be tied to the movies. It has to be. That walker had wires attached, and they tasered Althea, and then there's all that radiation. I don't know where this story is going, but it seems to be going somewhere.

For episode 41 of The Star Trek Discovery Podcast, Ruthie and I complete our discussion of Season 2 Episode 14 of Star Trek: Discovery, which is titled, Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2. This episode was written by Michelle Paradise & Jenny Lumet & Alex Kurtzman, and directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi. For this episode, we go through voicemails and other general feedback, our notes, and news.

This is our third and final podcast covering this episode. We recommend that you start our coverage of the season finale by listening to episode 39, and then listen to episode 40. In episode 39, we go over feedback from the previous episode, and also ratings and Yeses. In episode 40, we cover Nos and Hold Your Horses.

Like the last episode, the images were chosen by Fred from The Netherlands, including the cover image. We let Fred's pics do the talking for us! We have a supersized amount of pics for this episode, divided between this episode and last week's episode 40, with a few pics in episode 39. These pictures cover the second half of the episode.

After a week, I still love the episode, but I am more sensitive to its flaws and maybe it's not quite as good as I originally thought. Why couldn't they beam out Cornwell? Why would Control break down after Leland is neutralized? For that matter, why didn't Control go after Burnham? How was Ash able to be on the Chancellor's ship, leading the fight? How did the Kelpiens go from their primitive state to piloting fighters in such a short time? These are all nitpicks to me, though, and don't affect my ultimate rating, at least that much.

A couple of things I mentioned in the episode were the Ford Pinto and the AVE Mizar. But one thing I didn't realize about the AVE Mizar during the recording was that the inventors of the "roadable aircraft" were killed in a test flight. I don't feel so great about making fun of it anymore, because of knowing those unfortunate circumstances.

We are taking a well-deserved hiatus. We plan to be back sometime in June. At that time, we plan to do a Season 2 roundtable episode. We'll cover other feedback we haven't had a chance to answer yet, and any other feedback we get on these last three episodes after that. While you can respond to this episode or the previous two, so we will not be covering any feedback received until episode 42 at the earliest, but probably not until epis

For episode 40 of The Star Trek Discovery Podcast, Ruthie and I continue our discussion of Season 2 Episode 14 of Star Trek: Discovery, which is titled, Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2. This episode was written by Michelle Paradise & Jenny Lumet & Alex Kurtzman, and directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi. So, for this episode, we are focussing on the parts of the episode that our listeners and we had problems with - and we highlight them in our Nos and Hold Your Horses sections.

Because this is our second podcast covering this episode, we recommend you start our coverage of the season finale by listening to episode 39 if you haven't already done so. In that episode, we go over feedback from the previous episode, but also ratings and Yeses. Because we had so much feedback for this episode, there will be a third episode to follow. Thanks go out to my co-host on Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through, Kyle, for doing most of the editing on this one! I finally got a bit of a break! :-)

We go back to our previous format and use pics chosen by Fred from The Netherlands, including the cover image. And Fred's pics do the talking for us! Because we have a supersized amount of pics for this episode, divided between this episode and episode 41 when it's released. So, you'll see more pics next time! These pictures cover the first half of the episode.

We both loved this episode, and it was probably one of the best ones of the series. That said, though we all (but one person) rated it highly, it does have flaws. Like the previous episode, this episode is greater than the sum of its parts. It is interesting, though, for an episode to score so high in ratings, yet have as many Nos and Hold Your Horses highlighted. By the way, a lot of people are really psyched about Discovery heading to the future but I'm not so sure.

It feels like a bit of a copout, to be honest, done to appease some of the angry fanbase, some that will never be satisfied no matter what they do. I worry that setting it so far in the future may make all other series prequels to Discovery, the opposite problem they had before, hampering shows like the Picard show, the Section 31 show, and other shows coming down the road. I would have much preferred Discovery end up in the same era as the Picard show will be, so they could play in the same sandbox, so to speak. Maybe they will end up there? Who knows.

We'll be back next week with even more coverage of the season finale, covering your feedback, our notes that haven't been discussed yet, and news, adding in some additional news that's happened since we recorded. While you can respond to this episode, we will not be covering any feedback received until episode 42 at the earliest. You can submit feedback via the Feedback page, Facebook Group, Twitter, you can email

For episode 39 of The Star Trek Discovery Podcast, Ruthie and I conclude our discussion of Season 2 Episode 13 of Star Trek: Discovery, which is titled, Such Sweet Sorrow, and begin our first of three episodes discussing Season 2 Episode 14 of Star Trek: Discovery, which is titled, Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2. Both episodes were written by Michelle Paradise & Jenny Lumet & Alex Kurtzman, and directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi.

To speed us getting this out, as we recorded this a couple of days later than normal, we will be showing much of the images chosen by Fred from The Netherlands, in the next two episodes, and only show a few of them here.

We begin the podcast with a ton of extra feedback for our previous episode, covering S2E13 Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 1, that came in after we recorded last week, and some responses to our episode 38. Finally, at 56:03, we get into the season finale. When we recorded on Easter Sunday, our combined sessions went over six hours raw. We had initially decided to cover them in two episodes, but what we had envisioned as the second episode ended up too large, and we'll be splitting those into episodes 40 and 41. This episode starts the discussion of the season finale with episode ratings and things we and our listeners gave a YES to. The next episode, episode 40, will cover NO's and Hold Your Horses. The last episode will cover voicemails and other written feedback, our episode notes and then some news.

We both loved this episode, and it was probably one of the best ones of the series. That said, though we rated it highly, it does have flaws, but, like last week, this is one where the episode is greater than the sum of its parts. This episode was visually stunning, emotionally captivating, and shocking, but in a good way!

We'll be back next week with more coverage of the season finale and then again with a third episode a few days later. That episode has already been recorded, so while you can respond to this episode, we will not be covering any feedback received until episode 42. You can submit feedback via the feedback page, Facebook Group, Twitter, or you can email startrekgsm at gmail dot com. We would like to keep our episodes down to a more reasonable podcast length. To help with this, we'd like you to focus on a few key points, rather than d

For episode 38 of The Star Trek Discovery Podcast, Ruthie and I discuss Season 2 Episode 13 of Star Trek: Discovery, which is titled, Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 1. This episode was written by Michelle Paradise & Jenny Lumet & Alex Kurtzman, and it was directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi. All are either co-executive producers or executive producers. Jenny Lumet & Alex Kurtzman co-wrote the first Short Trek, Runaway, and Michelle Paradise has been promoted to co-showrunner for Season 3 along with Kurtzman. This episode is part one of a two-part finale.

We begin the podcast with a little feedback about our previous episode, covering S2E12 Through the Valley of Shadows. We get into this episode 6 minutes 4 seconds into the podcast.

We have been blessed yet again with pics chosen by Fred from The Netherlands, including the cover image. We let Fred's pics do the talking for us!

We both loved this episode, and it was probably one of the best ones of the series. That said, though we rated it highly, it does have flaws, such as where you see the seams where they stretched it from a one-parter to a two-parter, but this is one where the episode is greater than the sum of its parts. We'll be back next week with our next episode on the season finale. As always, your feedback is essential to this podcast! We've had a short feedback deadline most weeks this season.

We'll cover more feedback from S2E13 Such Sweet Sorrow, so do not hesitate to send in your feedback if you miss the deadline. For Star Trek: Discovery S2E14, which is titled Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2 (we think that's the title) the deadline to get in your feedback is Friday, April 19, 2019, at 6 PM Eastern/5 PM Central or 10 PM UTC. You can submit feedback via the Feedback page, Facebook Group, Twitter, you can email startrekgsm at gmail dot com, or call the voicemail at (216) 236-5449 and leave us a message there. Make sure to mention you're calling The Star Trek Discovery Podcast when you call. We would like to keep our episodes down to a more reasonable podcast length. To help with this, we'd like you to focus on a few key points, rather than discussing everything about the episode. If submitting a voicemail, please try to keep your calls to 4 minutes or less, with an absolute maximum of 5 minutes. We would like to keep our episodes under 2 hours! Please help with that!

Join our Facebook group! And follow us on Twitter! And don't forget to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts! While you

For episode 37 of The Star Trek Discovery Podcast, Ruthie and I discuss Season 2 Episode 12 of Star Trek: Discovery, which is titled, Through the Valley of Shadows. This episode was written by Bo Yeon Kim & Erika Lippoldt, and it was directed by Douglas Aarniokoski. This is the third time the writers have worked with Aarniokoski, as he also directed their Short Trek, The Brightest Star, and S2E6, The Sound of Thunder.

We begin the podcast with feedback from the previous episode, and we had quite a lot of it. We get into this episode 20 minutes 11 seconds into the podcast.

We have been blessed yet again with pics chosen by Fred from The Netherlands, including the cover image. We thought last week's experiment was a big hit, so we're going to do it again, and let Fred's pics do the talking for us!

We both loved this episode, one of the better ones of Season 2. We'll be back next week with our next episode. As always, your feedback is essential to this podcast! We've had a short feedback deadline most weeks this season. We'll cover more feedback from S2E12 Through the Valley of Shadows, so do not hesitate to send in your feedback if you miss the deadline. For Star Trek: Discovery S2E13, which is titled Such Sweet Sorrow, the deadline to get in your feedback is Friday, April 12, 2019, at 6 PM Eastern/5 PM Central or 10 PM UTC. You can submit feedback via the Talk Through Media feedback page, Facebook Group, Twitter, you can email startrekgsm at gmail dot com, or call the voicemail at (216) 236-5449 and leave us a message there. Make sure to mention you're calling The Star Trek Discovery Podcast when you call. We would like to keep our episodes down to a more reasonable podcast length. To help with this, we'd like you to focus on a few key points, rather than discussing everything about the episode. If submitting a voicemail, please try to keep your calls to 4 minutes or less, with an absolute maximum of 5 minutes. We would like to keep our episodes under 2 hours! Please help with that!

Want to participate? Join our Facebook group! And follow us on Twitter! And don't forget to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts! While you do, we'd appreciate it if you can leave us a review, hopefully, a 5-star! Or, if not, a rating will do!!! And we're now on Spotify!

We talked through The Walking Dead Season 9 Episode 16, which is titled, The Storm. This week, guest host Alex joined Brian and Mark to discuss the season finale! The Storm was written by Angela Kang & Matthew Negrete, and was directed by Greg Nicotero.

The rest of this blog post requires a SPOILER WARNING!!! If you haven't watched this week's episode, then you should probably stop reading now.

There should have been a lot more snow on the ground. There were leaves on the trees and bushes - all the leaves should have fallen by that time. Some of the close-ups of the snow didn't look realistic. Did you really need a caravan and a human chain to just walk from one house to another in Alexandria? The snow on the ground during the snowball fight, with RJ playing in it, looked like cotton balls, mothballs and styrofoam.

It felt like it was a snowstorm created by people who didn't know what a snowstorm was actually like, only what they had seen on TV, movies, and photos. I appreciated what they tried to do, but the show would have been a lot better off doing a location shoot where there are actual winter conditions, such as Canada, Minnesota, or upstate New York. You know, a place with actual snow, cold enough for snow to fall and stay frozen. It seems like such a big effort to simulate snow when it would have made so much more sense to go to where there is actual snow. Other series do that. Why didn't TWD? Game of Thrones has done great winter scenes. They should have emulated what they've done and gone on location.

Yup, you got it. They were an afterthought this week. They went south, which made me shrug. Since they left the area, why would they even go back to Virginia in the spring? Why get into a conflict when they come back? Why not just stay in the south or go somewhere else? I just didn't get that at all. It made no sense.

The Kingdom has fallen into disrepair and sorrow over the losses, and Ezekiel and Carol split over their grief. This was very sad. I hated seeing this happen. It's very realistic. This often happens with grieving parents, but death is something that happens in the Zombocalypse, so I would have thought they'd be strong enough to weather it. They may come back together in Season 10, but this was a downer in an otherwise down episode. At least Jerry keeps his spirits. Kingtop it is Jerry!!!

This may have been my favorite part of the episode. I loved the change in Negan, and him saving Judith. I also loved the scene with Michonne. A bad guy doesn't think he's a bad guy i

For episode 36 of The Star Trek Discovery Podcast, Ruthie and I discuss Season 2 Episode 11 of Star Trek: Discovery, which is titled, Perpetual Infinity. This episode was written by Alan McElroy & Brandon Schultz, and it was directed by Maja Vrvilo. She directed the first Short Trek.

We begin the podcast with feedback from the previous episode. We get into this episode 8 minutes 37 seconds into the podcast.

We have been blessed yet again with pics chosen by Fred from The Netherlands, including the cover image. We thought last week's experiment was a big hit, so we're going to do it again, and let Fred's pics do the talking for us!

We both loved this episode, although maybe not quite as much as last week's episode. We'll be back next week with our next episode. As always, your feedback is essential to this podcast! We'll be having a short feedback deadline most weeks this season, due to scheduling issues. We'll cover more feedback from S2E11 Perpetual Infinity, so do not hesitate to send in your feedback if you miss the deadline. For Star Trek: Discovery S2E12, the deadline to get in your feedback is Friday, April 5, 2019, at 6 PM Eastern/5 PM Central or 11 PM UTC. You can submit feedback via the feedback page, Facebook Group, Twitter, you can email startrekgsm at gmail dot com, or call the GSM voicemail at (216) 236-5449 and leave us a message there. Make sure to mention you're calling The Star Trek Discovery Podcast when you call. I'm also podcasting on The Walking Dead. Because of this schedule, we are trying to get our episodes down to a more reasonable podcast length. To help with this, we'd like you to focus on a few key points from the episode, rather than discussing everything about the episode. If submitting a voicemail, please try to keep your calls to 4 minutes or less, with an absolute maximum of 5 minutes. We would like to keep our episodes under 2 hours! Please help with that!

Want to participate? Join our Facebook group! And follow us on Twitter! And don't forget to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts! While you do, we'd appreciate it if you can leave us a review, hopefully, a 5-star! Or, if not, a rating will do!!! And we're now on Spotify!

On this episode 97 of The Walking Dead Talk Through, Brian and special guest co-host Steve talk through The Walking Dead Season 9 Episode 15, which is titled, The Calm Before. This was written by Geraldine Inoa & Channing Powell, and directed by Laura Belsey. Mark was out sick this week.

The rest of this blog post requires a SPOILER WARNING!!! If you haven't watched this week's episode, then you probably should stop now.

It was quite the fair, and a chance for the communities to come together again. They finally signed the charter! That was a long time coming. I don't know about you, but I was surprised that we didn't see Cyndie as the leader of Oceanside, but Sydney Park landed a part on a new series. The actress who now plays her, Avianna Mynhier, looks just like an older version of the original actress, Mimi Kirkland.

To say it simply, the scene with our fallen comrades on a pike was disturbing and compelling. I was truly shocked by the death of Henry. I did not see that coming. I thought that character would be with us until the end of the show. Enid and especially Tara, on the other hand, should have gotten more appropriate deaths.

That link is A Death in The Limelight.

This week, TWD ratings reached an all-time low, possibly due to a problem with many DVRs only recording the first hour and then cutting off the last 25 minutes of the program. We'll see if ratings recover when the Live + 3 and Live + 7 ratings later. S9E15 The Calm Before got a 1.48 in the 18-49 demographic with 4.152 million viewers, down from 1.66 in the 18-49, and 4.566 million last week. Talking Dead, also down, with a 0.33 in the 18-49 with 1.010 million viewers, verses 0.50 and 1.569 million viewers last week respectively.

We both enjoyed The Calm Before, as did Mark according to his feedback and thanks to Steve for coming on the podcast again this week! Please leave your feedback for The Walking Dead, Season 9 Episode 16, the season finale, titled The Storm, by 6 PM Eastern/5 PM Central on Wednesday, April 3, 2019. Check the