Spoilers through Season 5 of 'Fear The Walking Dead' follow.
At the end of Fear The Walking Dead's latest episode 'The Little Prince' Strand and Charlie show up to save their stranded counterparts in a hot air balloon shaped like a beer bottle.
So I looked into it and yes, there are hot air balloons shaped like beer bottles (and liquor bottles and beer cans) but they all have one thing in common: these little flaps that hang down from the base where the hot air is pumped into the balloon itself.
The "hot air balloon" in Fear was obviously a fake, and this is the dead giveaway. As far as I can tell, the bottom of the 'bottle' is flat, with no perceptible opening. It's clearly just a beer bottle inflatable like you might see at a music festival or fair that the show's creators decided would look good enough.
And hey, why not? Why not film those super cheesy, obviously fake scenes with Strand and Charlie in the hot air balloon? It's in keeping with the rest of this complete disaster of a television show. Let's go through all the ways this episode—and the stuff leading up to it—is just plain bad.
- First off, the premise of this season is atrocious. Morgan and his band of heroes have refashioned themselves into the zombie apocalypse good Samaritans. They help random people in need, whether or not those people want to be helped.
- So they fly a plane off somewhere to help somebody despite not knowing how to fly it and it crashes and they're now stranded in an area that just so happens to be the seen of a nuclear plant meltdown.
- Turns out, the whole thing was a trick to get them away from the mill which is then taken over by a guy we haven't seen since the first episode who says it was his to begin with. I guess the conflict with this guy will occupy the second half of this miserable season.
- They meet some kids, a whole colony of lost boys and girls who survived when their parents were killed by radioactive zombies (or the radiation?) and Morgan and Alicia really want them to come back with them on their deathtrap plane they started rebuilding in tonight's episode.
- The kids are too smart for this nonsense. They're like "Do you idiots even know how to properly rebuild a plane, let alone fly the damn thing? Uh, I think we'll stay here on solid ground and contend with the "growlers" and radiation.
- But wait, that lady Grace is back and she's going to go do some stuff at the nuclear plant to "but them some time" or some nonsense. Morgan wants to help but he remembers he needs to go back to the truck stop and give another stupid speech about not running from things and making up for past sins and blah blah blah blah shoot me now.
- The kids run off and Alicia goes after them. She's going to rescue those darn kids if she has to kill them to do it!
- John Dorie and Dwight are off looking for Dwight's missing wife, Sherry, who is the one person on this show that doesn't just turn up out of nowhere suddenly. John finds a note from Sherry telling Dwight to stop looking for her, but . . . she doesn't really know that he even is looking for her does she? For all she knows he's back at the Sanctuary with Negan pressing some laundry. For all she knows he's dead.
