WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.100 --> 00:00:02.980 - Hey everyone. It's Germain Lussier here, from io9. 2 00:00:02.980 --> 00:00:06.380 We are currently in the midst of Comic-Con at home. 3 00:00:06.380 --> 00:00:09.960 And during Comic-Con, Friday usually means "The Walking Dead." 4 00:00:09.960 --> 00:00:12.600 And Comic-Con at home is no different. 5 00:00:12.600 --> 00:00:15.260 We had three back-to-back YouTube panels, 6 00:00:15.260 --> 00:00:18.570 going over all, three now, "Walking Dead" shows, 7 00:00:18.570 --> 00:00:19.990 and we're here to talk about it. 8 00:00:19.990 --> 00:00:22.870 Uh, Cheryl, you watched the prequel show, 9 00:00:22.870 --> 00:00:24.460 "Fear the Walking Dead," what'd you think? 10 00:00:24.460 --> 00:00:28.005 - Well I think most of the larger shows 11 00:00:28.005 --> 00:00:30.620 because of the Comic-Con panels are now 12 00:00:30.620 --> 00:00:31.820 virtually streamed, so they're 13 00:00:31.820 --> 00:00:34.250 kind of dividing them up into sections. 14 00:00:34.250 --> 00:00:36.100 So we had a first section was some of the actors, 15 00:00:36.100 --> 00:00:38.970 and then a second one, which wasn't completely ideal 16 00:00:38.970 --> 00:00:40.640 I feel like it's more fun kind of to see 17 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:43.249 everyone interacting, but I get it. 18 00:00:43.249 --> 00:00:45.010 But the show is gonna be back 19 00:00:45.010 --> 00:00:48.780 for its sixth season on October 11th. 20 00:00:48.780 --> 00:00:50.570 There was kind of a cliffhanger 21 00:00:50.570 --> 00:00:52.890 at the end of season 5, so 22 00:00:52.890 --> 00:00:54.360 a lot of people wanted to talk about that 23 00:00:54.360 --> 00:00:55.340 and of course there was a lot of, 24 00:00:55.340 --> 00:00:56.909 'Well, we can't really say.' 25 00:00:56.909 --> 00:00:59.860 And it was mostly about Lennie James' character, 26 00:00:59.860 --> 00:01:02.340 Morgan, who was glimpsed in the trailer 27 00:01:02.340 --> 00:01:04.630 not looking so good after being injured 28 00:01:04.630 --> 00:01:06.290 at the end of the previous season. 29 00:01:06.290 --> 00:01:08.060 But they did say that Lennie is going 30 00:01:08.060 --> 00:01:11.110 to be directing an episode this season. 31 00:01:11.110 --> 00:01:14.100 So whether or not that means Morgan, his character, 32 00:01:14.100 --> 00:01:15.250 is okay, we don't know. 33 00:01:16.620 --> 00:01:18.670 But they also mention that the cat, 34 00:01:18.670 --> 00:01:20.900 which is a fan favorite, Skidmark, 35 00:01:20.900 --> 00:01:22.968 will be coming back and they hinted 36 00:01:22.968 --> 00:01:24.941 that there might be another pet this season. 37 00:01:24.941 --> 00:01:26.330 So, pet fans out there, get excited. 38 00:01:26.330 --> 00:01:29.340 But mostly they just sort of talked about their characters. 39 00:01:29.340 --> 00:01:32.950 And then they did touch on the Western feel 40 00:01:32.950 --> 00:01:35.579 that is evident, was evident last season, 41 00:01:35.579 --> 00:01:37.940 and you can see it really well in the trailer 42 00:01:37.940 --> 00:01:40.980 that they released. Lots of horses and oil wells on fire. 43 00:01:40.980 --> 00:01:43.235 Things like that, and somebody did make the inevitable 44 00:01:43.235 --> 00:01:46.320 'Fear the Walking Dead-wood' joke. 45 00:01:46.320 --> 00:01:47.540 So that was pretty funny. 46 00:01:47.540 --> 00:01:49.750 But yeah, so that's gonna be coming up 47 00:01:49.750 --> 00:01:52.647 October 11th, so after the main show 48 00:01:52.647 --> 00:01:54.440 wraps up its season, which you're going 49 00:01:54.440 --> 00:01:56.260 to talk about, it'll go right into 50 00:01:56.260 --> 00:01:58.260 the, "Fear the Walking Dead." So. 51 00:01:58.260 --> 00:02:00.940 What'd you think about the original panel? 52 00:02:00.940 --> 00:02:02.600 - Yeah, I mean, it was the same thing, 53 00:02:02.600 --> 00:02:04.720 where they uh, it's such a big cast on all these shows 54 00:02:04.720 --> 00:02:05.850 that they kind of split it up. 55 00:02:05.850 --> 00:02:07.440 And it would be fun to have them, to have like 56 00:02:07.440 --> 00:02:09.912 a 30-person Zoom as opposed to like a six. 57 00:02:09.912 --> 00:02:12.344 But there's some good info. 58 00:02:12.344 --> 00:02:15.650 Like you said, the 10th season kind of 59 00:02:15.650 --> 00:02:17.440 got put on hiatus. 60 00:02:17.440 --> 00:02:19.894 The big finale will now air on October 4th 61 00:02:19.894 --> 00:02:22.480 as a lead in to the new show, "World Beyond," 62 00:02:22.480 --> 00:02:24.180 which I'll talk about in a second. 63 00:02:24.180 --> 00:02:27.490 They showed a clip of the opening of that episode 64 00:02:27.490 --> 00:02:29.620 and the-which was pretty cool. 65 00:02:29.620 --> 00:02:32.230 And the big news though is that 66 00:02:32.230 --> 00:02:33.800 it's not really a finale anymore, 67 00:02:33.800 --> 00:02:36.480 because now season 11's now going to be delayed 68 00:02:36.480 --> 00:02:38.950 due to Covid-19, we're going to get 69 00:02:38.950 --> 00:02:41.690 six bonus episodes of season 10 70 00:02:41.690 --> 00:02:43.867 sometime early next year. 71 00:02:43.867 --> 00:02:45.360 So that was kind of cool. 72 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:49.306 Scott Gimple, who is kind of the world builder now 73 00:02:49.306 --> 00:02:50.960 for "The Walking Dead," mentioned that 74 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:53.500 they might eventually do some kind of prequel stuff 75 00:02:53.500 --> 00:02:55.030 with characters who are gone. 76 00:02:55.030 --> 00:02:57.300 You said maybe Jon Bernthal, I think that'd be awesome. 77 00:02:57.300 --> 00:03:01.470 Or Glenn. But he just hinted at that briefly. 78 00:03:01.470 --> 00:03:02.570 You know it was a lot of fan questions, 79 00:03:02.570 --> 00:03:03.550 which are interesting if you're like 80 00:03:03.550 --> 00:03:05.780 a super-duper fan of the show. 81 00:03:05.780 --> 00:03:06.870 The main focus basically being 82 00:03:06.870 --> 00:03:09.450 Lauren Cohan's coming back as Maggie 83 00:03:09.450 --> 00:03:11.630 and she's been gone for a long time. 84 00:03:11.630 --> 00:03:13.600 And now Negan, who killed her husband, 85 00:03:13.600 --> 00:03:15.220 is a good guy, so everyone is like 86 00:03:15.220 --> 00:03:17.216 'What the heck is that going to mean?' 87 00:03:17.216 --> 00:03:20.470 So we will probably find out on October 4th 88 00:03:20.470 --> 00:03:22.800 and if not then, a couple weeks later. 89 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:25.520 And then after that episode we'll get 90 00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:29.170 the new show, "World Beyond," which also had a panel. 91 00:03:29.170 --> 00:03:31.050 What did you think about that show? 92 00:03:31.050 --> 00:03:31.950 - Well, I thought it was interesting 93 00:03:31.950 --> 00:03:33.300 that they specified that it's going to be 94 00:03:33.300 --> 00:03:35.800 a two season limited event, so. 95 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:37.740 As "The Walking Dead" keeps walking and walking 96 00:03:37.740 --> 00:03:39.600 and walking, this is just gonna be 97 00:03:39.600 --> 00:03:42.240 a contained two season event. 98 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:44.680 Which is, I think, actually is probably going to be good. 99 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:46.690 - Yeah, they didn't even mention it either. 100 00:03:46.690 --> 00:03:48.240 It was weird, it was on the trailer 101 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:50.040 but they didn't like talk about it at all. 102 00:03:50.040 --> 00:03:51.745 - Yeah, they kind of mentioned, 103 00:03:51.745 --> 00:03:53.390 they were like 'We're in pre-production on season 2.' 104 00:03:53.390 --> 00:03:57.050 But I think this show has interesting potential. 105 00:03:57.050 --> 00:03:59.410 It's set in obviously the world beyond, 106 00:03:59.410 --> 00:04:01.630 as they say, but it's after zombies 107 00:04:01.630 --> 00:04:02.970 are kind of part of life. 108 00:04:02.970 --> 00:04:04.520 Or as they're going to call them on the show, 109 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:05.713 empties. - Empties, yeah. 110 00:04:05.713 --> 00:04:09.800 - But it's gonna be about sort of high school-aged kids 111 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:12.700 who have grown up in this post apocalyptic world 112 00:04:12.700 --> 00:04:15.150 but haven't really done battle with zombies? 113 00:04:15.150 --> 00:04:16.980 - Yeah, that was what stood out to me. 114 00:04:16.980 --> 00:04:18.840 Was that I didn't really realize 115 00:04:18.840 --> 00:04:22.140 that because they sort of were young, 116 00:04:22.140 --> 00:04:24.865 like little, like toddlers when this happened, 117 00:04:24.865 --> 00:04:26.420 now they're teenagers. 118 00:04:26.420 --> 00:04:29.310 But they've studied combat, and they've studied zombies, 119 00:04:29.310 --> 00:04:30.760 but they've never actually fought them. 120 00:04:30.760 --> 00:04:32.460 And I think that's a really cool dynamic 121 00:04:32.460 --> 00:04:34.030 because when I first heard about this, 122 00:04:34.030 --> 00:04:35.850 I was like, 'So it's just "The Walking Dead" 123 00:04:35.850 --> 00:04:37.440 with younger kids? Who cares?' 124 00:04:37.440 --> 00:04:39.850 But like the fact that they're not as seasoned 125 00:04:39.850 --> 00:04:42.130 as you know, the cast of "Fear the Walking Dead" 126 00:04:42.130 --> 00:04:45.050 become or the cast on "The Walking Dead" 127 00:04:45.050 --> 00:04:46.796 are kind of at the beginning, 128 00:04:46.796 --> 00:04:49.697 that definitely is a pretty cool thing. 129 00:04:49.697 --> 00:04:53.622 And also, the CRN, which is the black helicopter 130 00:04:53.622 --> 00:04:56.510 that took Rick away is a big part of the show. 131 00:04:56.510 --> 00:04:59.000 And Julia Ormond, I couldn't even tell it was 132 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:02.060 Julia Ormond on the Zoom but she's so awesome. 133 00:05:02.060 --> 00:05:04.380 And I like that that sort of mythology 134 00:05:04.380 --> 00:05:06.640 is gonna be all the way through this too. 135 00:05:06.640 --> 00:05:08.700 - Yeah I mean, they definitely make sure 136 00:05:08.700 --> 00:05:11.180 to let us know there were gonna be adult characters too. 137 00:05:11.180 --> 00:05:14.700 There's a couple of bad-ass school security types 138 00:05:14.700 --> 00:05:16.045 who are gonna kind of, I assume, 139 00:05:16.045 --> 00:05:20.490 step in and save some necks at opportune moments. 140 00:05:20.490 --> 00:05:22.820 And then Julia Ormond, who is like kind of 141 00:05:22.820 --> 00:05:24.920 a cult actress at this point, 142 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:26.490 playing a character whose intentions 143 00:05:26.490 --> 00:05:28.140 we aren't really sure about and 144 00:05:28.140 --> 00:05:30.150 she couldn't really say that much about her character. 145 00:05:30.150 --> 00:05:32.380 Like somebody asked, 'Do you know where Rick Grimes is?' 146 00:05:32.380 --> 00:05:34.250 and she was like, 'I cannot say!' So. 147 00:05:34.250 --> 00:05:37.080 Intriguing to see what she'll bring to the show. 148 00:05:37.080 --> 00:05:39.950 - Yeah, and the last thing we'll say about it 149 00:05:39.950 --> 00:05:43.440 is I think one of my problems with 150 00:05:43.440 --> 00:05:44.850 "Fear the Walking Dead" at the start 151 00:05:44.850 --> 00:05:45.930 was that it was supposed to be like, 152 00:05:45.930 --> 00:05:48.490 this is how the zombie apocalypse happened. 153 00:05:48.490 --> 00:05:50.910 And I felt like it kind of dropped the ball on that. 154 00:05:50.910 --> 00:05:52.200 And this, they kind of talked about, 155 00:05:52.200 --> 00:05:53.960 it starts 10 years later and they're celebrating 156 00:05:53.960 --> 00:05:56.000 Monument Day, which they describe as like, 157 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:57.670 the night the sky fell. 158 00:05:57.670 --> 00:05:59.700 And it's kind of like when the zombie apocalypse happened. 159 00:05:59.700 --> 00:06:01.900 So like I'm excited to see, sort of learn more 160 00:06:01.900 --> 00:06:04.420 about that day from a historical standpoint. 161 00:06:04.420 --> 00:06:05.500 I think that's a really cool thing. 162 00:06:05.500 --> 00:06:07.701 Though it seems like that might be 163 00:06:07.701 --> 00:06:09.527 like the first 15 minutes of the show 164 00:06:09.527 --> 00:06:10.950 and then they go off on this cross country adventure 165 00:06:10.950 --> 00:06:13.280 across the Molana Reef, which is 166 00:06:13.280 --> 00:06:16.580 a big thing of tire fires that, who knows. 167 00:06:16.580 --> 00:06:17.510 They got into a lot of detail. 168 00:06:17.510 --> 00:06:19.470 You can watch the panels, if you want. 169 00:06:19.470 --> 00:06:20.510 That's kind of the cool thing, 170 00:06:20.510 --> 00:06:21.950 with Comic-Con at home, is that 171 00:06:21.950 --> 00:06:24.810 the panels are online, on YouTube right now. 172 00:06:24.810 --> 00:06:26.573 Links here in the story. 173 00:06:27.450 --> 00:06:29.220 Any other thoughts, Cheryl? 174 00:06:29.220 --> 00:06:30.440 - Um, no, I think that's it. 175 00:06:30.440 --> 00:06:31.300 Just we're gonna have lots of zombies 176 00:06:31.300 --> 00:06:33.930 coming up in October, so that's kind of perfect. 177 00:06:33.930 --> 00:06:35.470 - Exactly. All right, so. 178 00:06:35.470 --> 00:06:38.790 Thanks so much for watching, "Walking Dead" fans, 179 00:06:38.790 --> 00:06:42.260 and keep it tuned here to io9 for more Comic-Con at home. 180 00:06:42.260 --> 00:06:43.093 Have a good one.