Warning: Spoilers for AMC's The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead follow...
The news broke and New York Comic-Con that there will be an official crossover between The Walking Dead and spinoff series Fear the Walking Dead. It's always been a tricky concept to embrace as Fear, while airing simultaneously, takes place years before the events that are currently happening on Walking Dead. For a while, back at San Diego Comic-Con, it seemed like the crossover might just be relegated to a bit of Madison's southern backstory and, perhaps, a familial connection to the Daryl and Merle Dixon.
Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman stated though, for the record, that the connection would come through a shared character. That could either mean seeing a Fear character pop up on Walking Dead, as a years-later version of themselves, or it would mean seeing a past version of a Walking Dead character on Fear. Someone, dead or alive now, who joined The Walking Dead at a later date and had their earlier zompocalpyse adventures offscreen. Meaning, a character like Jeffrey Dean Morgan's Negan, who's ripe for some backstory shading, or characters like Abraham, Rosita, and Eugene, who joined the series in Season 4 having already formed an alliance on their own.
Granted, it would make more sense for a Walking Dead character to travel back in time and pop up on Fear, given that Walking Dead is the show that more people watch, than for a Fear character to hop up and over to Walking Dead when not every viewer would know who they are. Regardless, because of the news, fans watched Fear the Walking Dead's double-episode Season 3 finale this past weekend with a sharp eye out for possible connective tissue between the two series.
While it's likely that the core Fear cast - including Kim Dickens' Madison, Alycia Debnam-Carey's Alicia, Frank Dillane's Nick, and a few others - will stay intact and not splinter off so much that they could appear on Walking Dead, it was notable that Michael Greyeyes' Walker and Justin Rain's Crazy Dog left the scene of the dam explosion with plans to head north. One of these two could surely show up on Walking Dead but then again neither of these two warriors are crucial characters and the crossover would hold very little weight.
In order for the crossover to be worth the time and energy, you have to consider it'll involve a fan-favorite. In Fear's Season 3 finale, actor (and Rectify creator/showrunner) Ray McKinnon made his debut as Proctor John - the leader of an MC from California with dangerous designs of turning the wasteland into a vital and active trade route like the old Santa Fe Trail. Specifically, John wants to connect the refineries in Houston to the farms in California, with outposts in-between.
Before everything went to bloody hell at the dam on Fear, John's next stop was to be Texas. He was even going to force Alicia to go with him as his nurse-slash-prisoner. The mention of Houston made many fans immediately think of Abraham. Sure, Abraham eventually met up with both Rosita in Dallas, but he started off in Houston. This is also where we saw him, during a Walking Dead character flashback, when he and his doomed family were holed up, with other neighbors, in a grocery store during the onset of the apocalypse (it's where he killed those four dudes and freaked out his family so much that they left and got eaten).
If Michael Cudlitz' Abraham is to be the connector, then you have to wonder just where he's at during this point in the zombie apocalypse. Given how much time has passed on Fear, would Abraham have already left Houston? Most certainly he's already passed the point of the grocery store and his family's terrible demise - and his serendipitous meeting with Eugene that prevented him from committing suicide. Does this mean that if we meet Abraham pre-Rosita that he'll come with Eugene in tow? If so, would this invalidate the Abraham theory because we'd be getting two characters as a crossover?
The only way that a crossover can happen, in either direction, is if the geography works out. People wondered about Madison's connections to the Dixons because she mentioned growing up in Alabama and, though not exactly on the mark, it's pretty damn close to the events of The Walking Dead. Proctor John calling out Houston by name, and his intent to go there, is the first time the two shows could share a precise location. It's hard not to suspect that the connecting character could be Abraham at this point. Anyone seen Cudlitz lately? Is he still rocking the Abraham hair?
Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association (TCA). Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at http://ift.tt/2aJ67FB.
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