I couldn’t disagree with you more about the second half of this season or this particular episode. I have found the pacing on Fear to be quite refreshing compared to the later seasons of the main series. The Colonia takes me back to the days at the quarry and the farm. It was nice when the prime series kept a slower pace from time to time and it’s appreciated here on Fear. I think Fear has for the moment escaped the trap of its parent series that in my opinion has de-evolved into nothing but death porn. The original premise that no one is safe was an interesting hook at first, but now the primary series has become too overly dependent on it. I like the fact that in one and a half seasons of ‘Fear’ so far we’ve only really lost two members of the original group, Griselda Salazar and Liza Ortiz, I believe Daniel Salazar is still alive. Why can’t the main group survive as whole for a while especially when many of them are street smart enough to do so. The idiots at the Alexander Free Zone made it well into the apocalypse before they started to drop like red shirts on an away mission. I really enjoyed Madison’ segment in this episode she’s finally starting to evolve into a competent leader. Don’t get me wrong I still love Nick, but a good team can’t rely on just one all-star, so I’m glad he’s been separated from the main group for a time. And Madison’s idea for setting up the hotel as a safe harbor is a smart one. Madison’s ability to come to terms with the fact that Alicia is grown up and doesn’t need to be treated like a porcelain doll was only able to come about due to the absence of Nick. Madison’s belief that Nick’s addiction makes him incompetent has been the driving force behind the dysfunction in their family and her inability to resolve any other family issues. This is a very realistic issue for any family dealing with the addiction of a loved one. In the end the only one who can truly help an addict quit is the addict themselves but many families tear themselves up in denial of that fact. Now that she’s free of Nick as a distraction and Nick is free of her as deterrent I can see both beginning to evolve into better people. As for Alicia’s idea to lead the dead off the pier what’s wrong with that? I live on an Island and I say it was a very sound plan. That was definitely not a bather’s beach; the surf was way too strong. Alicia recognized that the rough surf in that area would prevent the majority of the walkers from coming back on land and more importantly it was an immediate evacuation of the dead from the hotel that her mom needed. Madison knows that it wouldn’t be long before some type of marauder would come along to try and take what they had, so total control quickly was important and recognizing Alicia’s idea as sound she took the risk. Telling the story of the Colonia through Nick is great as well. How many times in the parent series have they alluded to various walled towns that popped up after the outbreak only to have fallen not to the dead, but other men. We never really saw that tail completely played out before, until now. I just hope that all those women and children are allowed to survive somehow as Robert Kirkman seems to have some bizarre fetish about killing off Moms in his dead-verse.