I'd reccomend going back and watching the first few seasons of TWD. Fear will have to work really hard to match the quality of season three. I really think TWD season 3 onwards is on par with Mad Men and Breaking Bad.

I watched an episode of Mad Men six seasons in and knew I liked it so I went back and watched the whole thing.

The Walking Dead isn't exactly the epitome of originality itself. If you don't like FTWD why are you watching it? What are you expecting the show to be? A groundbreaking re-imagining of the serialised drama? Because that isn't what's happening.

I thought we were reducing shows to their bare minimal plot over the course of X hours, no?

Rick and the gang took 8 HOURS to walk to Terminus.