‘Fear The Walking Dead’: That Awkward Moment When You Bump Into Hershel’s Barn While In Mexico


Episode 6 of Fear The Walking Dead felt a little like déjà vu when a captive group of walkers was discovered. Has AMC chosen the same plotline from Season 2 of The Walking Dead for its companion program?

SPOILER ALERT: This article discusses Season 2 of AMC’s Fear The Walking Dead. Please proceed with caution if you wish to avoid spoilers.

In Episode 6 (entitled “Sicut Cervus”) of Fear The Walking Dead, Daniel Salazar (Ruben Blades) discovered a group of the infected being held captive by the new group they have joined in Mexico. Not only are the infected being contained, but family and friends of these infected are feeding them animals and talking to them like they can still understand them. Sound familiar?

Fear The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 6 containing the undead
[Image via AMC]
In Season 2 of The Walking Dead, it was discovered Hershel Greene (Scott Wilson) had a barn full of walkers that were once people he knew. His family had contained them and fed them live chickens in the hope that a cure would be discovered and their loved ones would be returned to their previous state. In the end, this group of walkers was discovered and put down by Rick’s group. Eventually, Hershel’s family came to understand that “once a walker, always a walker.”

This is not the first time AMC has borrowed from the original series Fear is based on. Also in Season 2, AMC had a hostage situation turn out just like one in the comic book series The Walking Dead is based on. In Episode 5 (entitled “Captive”) of Fear, Madison handed over one of the infected disguised as an uninfected person in order to make a hostage swap. Fear’s showrunner, Dave Erickson told Entertainment Weekly that this was merely a coincidence.

However, now AMC has borrowed another plotline from The Walking Dead with the introduction of a Mexican version of Hershel’s barn. So how will fans react to this already used storyline? Some fans took to Twitter during the airing of Fear The Walking Dead to voice their opinion on the matter.

Fear The Walking Dead gets their own Hershel's Farm in Episode 6 Season 2
[Image via CarlPopEye/Twitter]

But does the similarity between Celia’s (Marlene Forte) cage of the undead and Hershel’s barn full of walkers actually end there?

According to an article on Fansided’s Undead Walking, Celia and Hershel have approached the undead from entirely different angles. Hershel was looking after the walkers because he thought they were sick and would eventually be cured once the world righted itself. Celia, on the other hand, does appear to know these infected humans are really dead, not sick. In a true sense of the show’s title, Celia does not actually “fear the walking dead” like the group who has just arrived from on board the Abigail. As Uproxx pointed out, Celia honestly believes the infected are just the “next part of life.”

Daniel Salazar and Celia talk in Episode 6 of AMC's Fear The Walking Dead Season 2
[Image via Richard Foreman, Jr/AMC]
Celia, being Mexican, also has less of a fear of the dead than the Americans who have just arrived. So could she see the infected undead as a way for her to get closer to God? Or is she merely delusional and has resorted to some sort of death cult scenario in order for her to make sense of what is happening around her?

So if Celia is actually not scared of the walking dead, will she pose the bigger threat moving forward towards the midseason finale of Fear The Walking Dead? After all, Hershel was able to deal with the undead and then grieve for his loved ones once he understood there was no going back to normality once a person was infected. For Celia, death is merely another variable on life in her belief system, so is more likely to defend them against anyone who threatens them. In fact, she already has when it was shown she had poisoned the sacramental bread rather than have the entire church rise up against her.

What did you think of the Mexican version of Hershel’s barn in Episode 6 of Fear The Walking Dead? Do you think it will work out the same as it did in Season 2 of The Walking Dead? Let us know your thoughts and theories by commenting below!

Season 2 of AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead returns next Sunday, May 22 with Episode 7, titled “Shiva,” at 9 p.m. ET.

The official synopsis, according to TV Guide, for Episode 7 is as follows:

“The family faces their greatest test yet. Meanwhile, Nick, Madison, Travis and others go to great lengths to keep each other close.”

[Image via Richard Foreman, Jr/AMC]

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