Monument Day: The Collapse of Society Explained | The Walking Dead Universe Lore

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  • Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024

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  • @Swell-Films
    @Swell-Films  6 месяцев назад +291

    A few things I’d like to clarify as I know the timeline is confusing.
    We know the CDC discovered the virus in April 2010, as Dr. Jenner is quoted in season 1 as saying,
    “It's Day 194 since Wildfire was declared, and 63 days since the disease abruptly went global”.
    We know monument day was august 27th, as confirmed by AMC in a social media post in 2023
    The tales of twd episode “Blair/ Gina” also confirms the fall began on a Friday, which matches up as August 27th in our real world calendar.
    Using the day and night cycle from episodes 1-3 of Fear season 1, we can determine what events were occurring on which days leading up to monument day.

    • @KaptainOW
      @KaptainOW 6 месяцев назад +20

      Well, since we know wildfire is airborne, this leaves one of two situations. Either they discovered it and it wasn’t capable of airborne transmission, or it started off being airborne, but gradually mutated to adapt quicker and quicker to the human body. This means that there were walkers, but very rare and not identifiable, until a sizable amount of the population was infected, and the base mortality rate began to majorly become walkers, which is when the pandemic was declared

    • @ItsBlueFusionYT
      @ItsBlueFusionYT 6 месяцев назад +13

      We NEED a full Day 0/Day 1 to Day/Year 10/11 of the show/s TWD/FEAR/WB/ Etc. I've tried to put the full complete Day to day timeline together but it's just so confusing. If anyone else can layout the timeline. By. All. Means. PLEASE

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  6 месяцев назад +16

      @@ItsBlueFusionYT I’d love to take that project on, but it’d be a behemoth between all 7 shows

    • @Mickaye
      @Mickaye 6 месяцев назад +3

      What social media post by amc confirmed august 27th as monument day?? Pls send proof

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  6 месяцев назад +4

      @@Mickaye facebook.com/share/p/KFkDg7jEPx6fdpVZ/?mibextid=Cx5MWH

  • @Spetsnaz690
    @Spetsnaz690 6 месяцев назад +1517

    The creators need to make a dedicated series on the fall of society and operation cobalt from the police and military perspective. Ftwd season 1 wasn't enough.

    • @FrederickTheAnon14W
      @FrederickTheAnon14W 6 месяцев назад +95

      Unfortunately I'm doubtful that we'll get such an explanation, The creator of The Walking Dead Robert Kirkman has stated numerous times that he's not interested in truly explaining the reasons as to how the outbreak actually got started, He said that he feels like it would ruin the narrative and that the shows and comics are more about surviving the collapse and adapting, Rather than explaining why it happened in the first place.

    • @justinTime077
      @justinTime077 6 месяцев назад +12

      @@FrederickTheAnon14Wand I like that. Original stories are often such sullbhit

    • @edaingonzalez7179
      @edaingonzalez7179 6 месяцев назад +10

      @@FrederickTheAnon14Wdang I would have liked how it all turned to hell at the start

    • @Destroyerofnations
      @Destroyerofnations 6 месяцев назад +17

      Shameless plug but I’m trying to plan out a fanmade version of just that

    • @GadzWolf11
      @GadzWolf11 6 месяцев назад +36

      Season 1 wasn't fair, either. The military wouldn't have been set up like that, even if it was just the Army National Guard. They should've had lookouts on roofs and upper floors of buildings in every direction from the lock-down, plus road barriers, so that horde from the stadium shouldn't have been as viable a weapon as it was in the show.

  • @AJadedLizard
    @AJadedLizard 5 месяцев назад +758

    This is always my favorite part of any zombie story. Watching society collapse is always more interesting to me than seeing a bunch of randos wander around in the forest for five years.

    • @GojiraBiscuits.
      @GojiraBiscuits. 5 месяцев назад +74

      Agreed, the opening scenes from Dawn Of The Dead (2004) and World War Z are my favourite parts of any zombie film.
      Someone needs to do a Hardcore Henry/Cloverfield style film where it's literally just two hours of watching the character try to survive the initial outbreak.

    • @AJadedLizard
      @AJadedLizard 5 месяцев назад +30

      @@GojiraBiscuits. Seoul Station, the prequel to Train to Busan, is basically this. It's animated and *extremely* bleak, especially compared to the other movies, but it's pretty good. "Outbreak" in Resident Evil: Outbreak is about an hour long mission set during the Raccoon City Outbreak's opening hours, and the original Resident Evil 3 also has that if you're into games.
      I'm writing a couple stories myself that are set within the beginning of the apocalypse (one takes place over the course of a weekend, while the other is over a few weeks). I wish there was more out there, though.
      Also nice to see another Godzilla fan.

    • @raynes6286
      @raynes6286 4 месяца назад +14

      There was an interesting series by the BBC called ‘In the Flesh’ depicting a world where the apocalypse has been prevented. Society is dealing with what happened and the status quo is returning.
      Zombies are treated with medication, militias are just starting to disband… but there are a lot of consequences. Discrimination, widespread PTSD across society (the risen also have this as the cure repairs their brain and they remember what they did), militia members have a hard time readjusting back to civilian life…
      Great series that really explores a forgotten side of the apocalypse, the “victory”.

    • @blueocean9758
      @blueocean9758 4 месяца назад

      To expensive to film

    • @SerfinBird
      @SerfinBird 2 месяца назад

      ​@@blueocean9758not really loon at LOTR scale with almost no CGI and then look at the budget of marvel films or the avatar films

  • @bonghittaz1502
    @bonghittaz1502 6 месяцев назад +513

    The cosmonauts situation is easily the most horrifying position in the show.

    • @Man_Aslume
      @Man_Aslume 6 месяцев назад +36

      Your stuck in the dark void as space

    • @EvgeneXI
      @EvgeneXI 6 месяцев назад +51

      Only if they aren’t on the ISS. There’s pods on there to return the astronauts to Earth.

    • @rbgerald2469
      @rbgerald2469 6 месяцев назад +45

      ​@@EvgeneXI..Yep, there's always at least 1 Soyuz spacecraft docked in the ISS to serve as a Lifeboat and also a way to alter the orbital height of the ISS

    • @LJD442
      @LJD442 5 месяцев назад +54

      Honestly I think it's a weirdly beautiful place to end your run in the apocalypse is that weird?

    • @MASTEROFEVIL
      @MASTEROFEVIL 4 месяца назад +19

      Being stuck in space with no way back to earth

  • @sentenza5766
    @sentenza5766 6 месяцев назад +586

    The scene where the LAPD cop stack gallons of water in his car, and the look he gives to Travis still gives me chills when i think about it

    • @FrederickTheAnon14W
      @FrederickTheAnon14W 6 месяцев назад +91

      I find that scene (Along with many others) interesting because it shows how even such people that had access to information like that LAPD cop still didn't realize and comprehend just how LONG and how BAD things would get, So he thought that such quantities of water (And presumably other goods) for him and his family would tide him over, Not realizing that 18-20+ years later in shows like Dead City and The Ones Who Live society is still suffering from the affects of Monument Day.
      I would assume that particular cop in general might've survived a while (And especially longer than his colleagues) since I believe he either left L.A shortly after this or holed up in his house.

    • @BlitzinMackGaming
      @BlitzinMackGaming 6 месяцев назад +38

      ​@@FrederickTheAnon14Weven still it's smart to grab what you can when you can. The cop did the right thing there.

    • @FrederickTheAnon14W
      @FrederickTheAnon14W 6 месяцев назад +13

      @@BlitzinMackGaming Of course it is, But it's better to prepare for a disaster/collapse long before it happens.
      In the case of water there are many better solutions when you prep before stuff starts to hit the fan, Instead of simply hurriedly tossing cases of water into your trunk you should have and know how to install and operate a shallow well or (If you have the money) a deep well that is powered. And if you want to be creative then set up a system for rainwater collection and that way (Alongside the cases of water) you have something that is ready for the long haul.
      If you don't have the money or the space then set aside a space for both water and food (And other such essentials), You can buy blue plastic containers in all different shapes and sizes. Buy one of those and rotate it out every so often whilst having a well or rainwater collection system as a main goal to work towards.
      It may all sound more difficult and extreme than simply buying cases of water but the goal is something that can be used in the long-term

    • @reg4211
      @reg4211 6 месяцев назад +12

      Yes. Great scene.
      I love the one where maddy and travis are driving to the church. Someone, in shadow, in a large hat is sort of lurching along and maddy looks at them as they go by.... are they or aren't they?

    • @BlitzinMackGaming
      @BlitzinMackGaming 6 месяцев назад +9

      @@FrederickTheAnon14W I mean I guess, but I'm definitely not prepared right now if what happened in The walking Dead happened in the real world. It's such an incredibly small chance for an extinction level event to happen in your lifetime. And your average police officer isn't going to have information about that way in advance. Basically you're saying everyone on earth should always be ready, but if that was the case there wouldn't be anywhere near enough supply to make that happen. Simply isn't possible. Any person that would prepare on that level for something like that is going to be known by everybody as the crazy end of the world guy. And if shit actually does end up happening, guess where all the desperate people are going to go first? To the crazy end of the world guy.

  • @inshal6420
    @inshal6420 6 месяцев назад +360

    Meanwhile Rick: 😴😴😴

    • @OceansBane
      @OceansBane 4 месяца назад +24

      He had the greatest hangover ever… 😅😅😅

  • @Destroyerofnations
    @Destroyerofnations 6 месяцев назад +189

    “The authorities will tell us.”
    Not if they’ve already fallen as well.

    • @imepic434
      @imepic434 6 месяцев назад +14

      Yea that's Madison assuming the authorities care about the public.

    • @Destroyerofnations
      @Destroyerofnations 6 месяцев назад +15

      @@imepic434 Honestly I don’t blame her for thinking they’d warn the people about the wildfire virus, especially considering how the kid described it, but it’s safe to say that once she saw the Principal infected that she probably realized it was already to late.

    • @laylachristina5605
      @laylachristina5605 4 месяца назад +10

      @@imepic434 people got lots of warning in covid, and they still went out of their way to do the exaclty opposite of what was recommended.

    • @VenomousVortexProductions
      @VenomousVortexProductions 2 месяца назад

      ​@@laylachristina5605Exactly. This makes me assume that if the Wildfire virus ever becomes real, the world will be screwed under a week pretty much.

    • @dukenukem69
      @dukenukem69 2 месяца назад

      ​@@laylachristina5605fake news and a 99.9% survival rate

  • @Psycho3678
    @Psycho3678 6 месяцев назад +571

    I still think that if the government acted enough to inform everyone how the infection works, the public and even local police forces and ambulance staff knowing this would allow them to prevent reanimation

    • @muttipi
      @muttipi 6 месяцев назад

      seeing how the government reacted to covid on a local and national level compared to other states makes me imagine we'd be doomed either way.
      I'm sure there'd also be like a hundred sigma male influencers who would run into hordes to prove its just a government psyop or something.

    • @AlphaYxNinja
      @AlphaYxNinja 6 месяцев назад

      It wasn’t curable so they didn’t know. Even if they said anything, the virus was going to spread one way or another. Everyone who was sick was infected, and especially at hospitals

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  6 месяцев назад +107

      Agreed. ESPECIALLY since the CDC was studying it for months.

    • @davidrichardson8328
      @davidrichardson8328 6 месяцев назад

      They knew, they were using air pistols to “humanely dispatch” the infected/dead. However, by that time, it was too late. Operation cobalt was enacted, and the collapse of society followed soon thereafter.

    • @tabathacarruthers5122
      @tabathacarruthers5122 6 месяцев назад

      You can't say that. Look at what happened with COVID. This virus spread faster it sounds like, especially once it became airborne.

  • @kevindrake4529
    @kevindrake4529 6 месяцев назад +73

    I wish that they did Fear the Walking Dead as an anthology like American Horror Story. Each season could have shown different cities at the lead up to Monument Day. First season LA but then they could have done Washington, Chicago, London, etc. That first season of Fear was excellent. And it was so scary at times as people started figuring things out.

  • @xemnas9098
    @xemnas9098 6 месяцев назад +176

    "School's out for summer
    School's out forever."

    • @OBITOMAJIN
      @OBITOMAJIN 4 месяца назад +4

      😂😂😂😂 vibessss

    • @VenomousVortexProductions
      @VenomousVortexProductions 2 месяца назад +2

      Last day of school.

    • @BruiseLee00
      @BruiseLee00 19 дней назад +1

      Used to play that song on guitar hero after the last day of school. Great times!

  • @sushi8369
    @sushi8369 21 день назад +4

    Flooding: school still open.
    Tornado: school still open.
    Zombie apocalypse: school still open.
    End of the world: math teacher still turns up to school.

  • @kingdevin_
    @kingdevin_ 6 месяцев назад +214

    Monument Day is the main reason I appreciate Fear the walking dead season 1. Since we got to see the early starts of the outbreak forming. I feel like the Government could have better informed the people if they took it way more seriously. Considering how fast the virus spread, it could be a little more prep time if people knew which could have saved more lives. I like how we still get some mentions of this day even now in the shows. That tells you how important this day was. I definitely feel for the astronaut because he literally had no way to get back home in space.

    • @susanoo3695
      @susanoo3695 6 месяцев назад +10

      he's probably the luckiest person in the whole walking dead universe it's because he's the only one that didn't see someone get bit or eaten or hear the agonizing scream of someone getting eaten

    • @jmsgridiron5628
      @jmsgridiron5628 5 месяцев назад +9

      ​@@susanoo3695would also technically mean he wouldn't be infected. The transmission was via an airborne pathogen. If he was up in space when it happened, then he wouldn't need to worry about coming back when he runs out of supplies.

  • @generalbutterscotch4887
    @generalbutterscotch4887 6 месяцев назад +122

    Honestly, even if Kirkman never explains the origin of the virus I would love to see a true prequel series set roughly a year or so before the CDC discovered wildfire, with the show ending around the time Shane and Lori escape Atlanta.

  • @imfknradio9978
    @imfknradio9978 6 месяцев назад +115

    I would *love* to see a walking dead series with 3-4 seasons that show Monument Day from the POV of 3-4 different major cities/scenarios. It would awesome to see Detroit, Chicago, Annapolis, a city thats not really big in movies. Throw in some rural Kansas for a change of pace

    • @topsdaily_productions
      @topsdaily_productions 6 месяцев назад +15

      Enough of America show me London, Moscow, shanghai etc during monument day

    • @wyattjohnson1160
      @wyattjohnson1160 6 месяцев назад +8

      I would love to see that too!! But have each season be a different city from another country like the UK, Germany, China, Russia, Italy, Japan, South Korea, and Australia. If they did do that the first season should be in The United States and these should be the cities it should take place in NYC, Philly, Chicago, Denver, SLC, Detroit, Dallas, St. Louis, Miami, Seattle, Portland, San Diego, San Francisco, and Nashville.

    • @tommyg9719
      @tommyg9719 6 месяцев назад +3

      i want to see appalachia. like heavily rural areas in West Virginia. they may not even know a thing for years

    • @rbgerald2469
      @rbgerald2469 6 месяцев назад +2

      ​​@@wyattjohnson1160..To add Americans to the mix, we can add Embassy workers too. (Like the character of Sam from the Metro series of games, he was from the Marine Security Guard, folks that guard US Embassies overseas)

    • @MatthewKendo
      @MatthewKendo 4 месяца назад

      @@tommyg9719 It's an interesting thought, but even if they don't have any sort of direct encounter with a walker they'll still realize somethings up when they go into town and theres no more food on the shelves because of the lack of US industry. globalization is a thing, a scary thing..
      When the world falls, even the most isolated places will feel the effect.

  • @dabestbrosgaming5707
    @dabestbrosgaming5707 6 месяцев назад +87

    the cosmonaut was the lucky one, he more than likely was the last human to die a natural death

    • @etienne8110
      @etienne8110 2 месяца назад +10

      If dying of thirst on a spaceship is "natural" death.
      At least he shouldn t reanimate since there is low prob the virus is up there already.

    • @pyronderman9055
      @pyronderman9055 Месяц назад +3

      sorry am late but wouldn't he , depending on when he got to space, not be infected by the virus

  • @ricklundeen2722
    @ricklundeen2722 5 месяцев назад +70

    A couple of things: 1) when Hurricane Katrina hit, you saw mass chaos, police abandoned their posts left and right stealing cars to get out of the area- hospitals were over run as doctors and nurses fled, people were left to fend for themselves in the immediate aftermath. 2) I'm a federal worker- in the weeks before the Covid pandemic hit and everything closed down, we started getting odd/confusing e mails from the powers that be, some would one thing then another would arrive saying the opposite - then on that day in March, we came to work, only to be told to take your computer and go home as government buildings were closing down- then everything else started to close down and all you would hear was reports from hospitals about the growing sickness and how people were dying- and then- ALL THE TOILET PAPER IN THE COUNTRY DISSAPEARED! People really started getting scared -- it was all like living in some sci fi or horror movie

    • @marcellachine5718
      @marcellachine5718 3 месяца назад +6

      That was only a trial run, more, much more to come
      .

    • @Odysseusnobody
      @Odysseusnobody 2 месяца назад

      Gov. Stole guns from people after Katrina

    • @Hilaire_Balrog
      @Hilaire_Balrog Месяц назад +5

      It really was like it was scripted for us or something 🤔

    • @peachypietro9980
      @peachypietro9980 Месяц назад

      It doesn't take much to cause chaos in a society that's already fractious and atomized. Pandemic wasn't planned or scripted, it's simply that people are predictably self concerned and extremely anxious in a situation where they don't know those around them and have to deal with something threatening. Of course, covid wasn't that bad, at least we managed. We don't even need Wildfire virus, viruses and bacteria from the past show just how bad things can be. And let's not even talk about 537 AD and the hell on earth for seven years that caused.

    • @Fatty2-sj8vr
      @Fatty2-sj8vr 25 дней назад

      The same in the uk 🇬🇧 bog roll vanished overnight. It got to the point where you could only buy one of everything. So, people ended up going to multiple shops.

  • @DominionSorcerer
    @DominionSorcerer 6 месяцев назад +53

    I feel like although the outbreak started in France, France seems to have been amongst the countries that handled the outbreak the best at least in terms of how their people fared, since the Pouvoir Du Vivant have reclaimed enough of France's territory to establish the sixth French Republic.

    • @inshal6420
      @inshal6420 6 месяцев назад +22

      The CDC guy even says France lasted the longest.

  • @MakinamiPhYT
    @MakinamiPhYT 6 месяцев назад +45

    1:14 be like: "Hey Lois, remember that time I became a virus to bring back Brian but ended up wrong in every way"

  • @matthewkuchinski1769
    @matthewkuchinski1769 2 месяца назад +13

    I felt let down by Fear of the Walking Dead in that Tobias was without doubt the smartest character in the show and he got very little time on it. His face when Madison says "the authorities would tell us if something was going on" is one of a guy who knows that history says otherwise. His grasp that canned goods needed to be grabbed, that getting whatever weapons one could find was a necessity, and that listening to the warning signs not avoiding them will keep one alive put him on the same level as Darryl and Merle in intellect and capability.

  • @stephennugent9958
    @stephennugent9958 6 месяцев назад +68

    Friday is definitely the best day for it since everyone is out (at night) doing whatever like that club in Paris.

  • @ogcipher4967
    @ogcipher4967 3 месяца назад +36

    I think my fav part of any TWD realated thing is the face Tobias makes when Madison goes "The autorities would tell us", he's got that '"jesus christ you actually believe that" look of disbelief. I was so mad he wasn't an actual character in the series.

    • @reg4211
      @reg4211 3 месяца назад +2

      Oh yes!!! This gives me a chuckle every time. Maddie, you gon' learn, my dear.
      Yes. Should have kept Tobias.

    • @ogcipher4967
      @ogcipher4967 3 месяца назад +4

      @@reg4211 He would have been great if they took more than 10 minutes to actually show "the fall of civilization". Missed oportunity, tbh that's how you can describe that series in a nuitshell "missed oportunity"

    • @reg4211
      @reg4211 3 месяца назад

      @@ogcipher4967 100%

    • @JWilliamsLangley
      @JWilliamsLangley 2 месяца назад +2

      On the channel Kill Count, the host does AVP Requiem. The scene where the characters are debating going to the center of the town because of government broadcast, Darcy says, "The government wouldn't lie!"
      The Kill Count host is like "Oh Darcy."

    • @ColtraneAndRain
      @ColtraneAndRain 2 месяца назад +1

      They did Tobias dirty!

  • @zSlicksco
    @zSlicksco 6 месяцев назад +80

    Bro, I'm a walking dead fanatic. I watch tons of twd content creators. You, my friend, have the BEST content for me. This video, as you explained monument day, actually made me feel a sense of Irriness, good job

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  6 месяцев назад +6

      Hey thanks so much mate! I appreciate the kind words!

    • @rghunter523
      @rghunter523 6 месяцев назад +3

      Facts bro don’t miss

  • @senatorarmstrong1233
    @senatorarmstrong1233 4 месяца назад +33

    I used to think thew military was dumb for not being able to handle the threat of walkers even though the concept of zombies didn't exist in this universe. But after you explained how that fact fit into it I came around to not hating the military as much.

    • @spartandud3
      @spartandud3 3 месяца назад +11

      The problem I have with TWD, at least as far as the TV shows are concerned, is that the complete and utter chaos during those first few days is understandable. But when we see the military actually doing stuff they become completely incompetent in every way.

  • @CobraDove1111
    @CobraDove1111 6 месяцев назад +41

    "The authorities would tell us".... LMFAO

    • @Unknown-ek1ox
      @Unknown-ek1ox 6 месяцев назад +1

      Interestingly in reality this couldn't hold up no more, at least for prolonged time. Someone would blow the whistle at some point, at least in democratic/western societies. At least on something as major and big as this.

  • @warioschwario
    @warioschwario 3 месяца назад +18

    That’s the scary thing about society, it takes years to build but hours to destroy

  • @austinhowells20
    @austinhowells20 Месяц назад +7

    0:01 he knows it’s spreading

    • @Rick-laszlo
      @Rick-laszlo Месяц назад +1

      I have no doubt that kid survived. He knew

  • @Madcomplex
    @Madcomplex Месяц назад +2

    Originally in the comics, Robert Kirkman made a one-shot comic with Rick and Shane exploring a crashed UFO in the middle of Georgia.
    When brought to light on a talking dead episode, Robert Kirkman confirmed that the Wildfire Virus was extraterrestrial and that the one-shot comic is the canon origin of the virus, not the one-shot comic itself that showed up in an invicible issue. But the origin is indeed extraterrestrial

  • @homeschoolmomofone2497
    @homeschoolmomofone2497 6 месяцев назад +39

    Thank you for making these videos for those who had questions throughout 14 years of The Walking Dead are starting to get answers.

  • @JStack
    @JStack 5 месяцев назад +11

    6:37 World leaders knew about that one thing in 2020 in November of 2019. So them keeping a lid on it until figuring out a "plan for the public," seems to be very accurate.

    • @carsarecoo
      @carsarecoo Месяц назад

      I predicted Covid 19 when there was a news report of "Pneumonia outbreak" in China, that went from a few cases to 400 overnight. Months later the world shutdown.

  • @JohnnyJohnnyJohnnyJohnnyJohnny
    @JohnnyJohnnyJohnnyJohnnyJohnny 6 месяцев назад +21

    The way you cover these events and include all of the shows is so cool. Looking forward to more of these videos

  • @harryvass9018
    @harryvass9018 6 месяцев назад +47

    Monument Day is by far the most interesting part of the Walking Dead and the show now over 10 years old has hardly fucking explored it.
    Fear the walking dead rushed it so quickly. All I want is a full season all about Monument Day it a few day before or after the outbreak there's so much you can show in this short time period for God Sakes it's a Gold mine.

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  6 месяцев назад +1

      I’ve been saying this for years. Absolutely criminal to only feature the fall for as little as they have.

    • @rbgerald2469
      @rbgerald2469 6 месяцев назад +1

      We could even have perspectives from other countries too. The UK, Russia, and others. (TWD but with 28 Days Later kind of feels, anyone?)
      Or a perspective from Embassy workers in other countries seeing their home nation and the nation they're in fall apart. (Like the origin of Sam in the Metro series of games but Zombies)

    • @taten007
      @taten007 4 месяца назад

      That sounds incredibly boring lol thankfully they aren’t doing that

    • @aarons0z992
      @aarons0z992 4 месяца назад

      ​@@taten007Would certainly be more interesting than whatever they cooked up with the ones who live

  • @conornoonan6376
    @conornoonan6376 6 месяцев назад +33

    Please keep exlorimg this type of stuff , all the pre-apocalyptic tuff and crm is like gold rn with the ones who live not giving us what we desire .
    Keep em coming

    • @GaaraFPS
      @GaaraFPS 6 месяцев назад

      What was desired that they’re not giving us?

    • @conornoonan6376
      @conornoonan6376 6 месяцев назад

      @@GaaraFPS crm info and an interesting story , michone and Rick reunion and wanting to return home should only be 1 ep . Just tru time wasting .

  • @redstarrazi4210
    @redstarrazi4210 6 месяцев назад +11

    the most detailed explanation of monument day and operation cobault. I love your videos

  • @shirox11
    @shirox11 5 месяцев назад +8

    I would of really loved a mini series that was just about the slow progression of incidents leading up to the collapse. FTWD touched on it a bit, but i would love an even more in depth look.

  • @jamesandmikey32
    @jamesandmikey32 6 месяцев назад +27

    Truly an excellent channel, best out there on the walking dead universe by a country mile. Definitely love a where are the military now video if there is any left excluding CRM.

    • @FrederickTheAnon14W
      @FrederickTheAnon14W 6 месяцев назад +1

      That sounds like a decent video but ultimately in my opinion all of the videos about the military AFTER the Collapse/Monument Day sound pretty much the same, Since we have such little information to go on and the majority of it is just general speculation and theorizing about where they could possibly be, If they are even still around at all.

    • @topsdaily_productions
      @topsdaily_productions 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@FrederickTheAnon14W I think the antagonist military in Daryl Dixon are just what's left of the french military considering they call themselves the 6th french republic

  • @izaquesousamendes4890
    @izaquesousamendes4890 6 месяцев назад +6

    It has not yet been explained exactly how the virus spread so quickly in a short period of time (Assuming its discovery was in April 2010 and Monument Day on August 27/28, 2010), just 4 months... So I remembered something, between June and July 2010, there was the World Cup, that is, millions of people (some already infected), traveling to the same place, passing the virus to other people, who would take it to their countries of origin , to their families, work colleagues or school. An event like the World Cup would greatly accelerate the spread of the Virus.

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  6 месяцев назад +1

      I love the way you think. Fantastic theory

  • @FrederickTheAnon14W
    @FrederickTheAnon14W 6 месяцев назад +9

    Let's also not forget that the doctors and hospitals already knew that something was going on because they had (Presumably new) regulations when it came to dealing with people who coded (Died) where they would only briefly attempt to bring said people back with such things as defibrillators before taking them "Downstairs" afterwards, As seen in Fear Season 1 Episode 1 when Nick was in the hospital.

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  6 месяцев назад +1

      Good observation!

    • @FrederickTheAnon14W
      @FrederickTheAnon14W 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@Swell-Films ​Thank you! It's also interesting to note that it seems that the Ambulance/EMT crews either didn't have the same protocols or weren't following them as in the highway scene the crash victim had been "Down" too long and the protocols would've told them not to risk interacting with the body after a certain period of time.

  • @DestinationAwesomeX
    @DestinationAwesomeX 6 месяцев назад +9

    Tbh what makes The Walking Dead interesting is the virus itself and the initial collapse of society. They need to make a spinoff that focuses on this stuff. Like that movie in the 2010s called contagion but set it before collapse.

  • @albireotheredguard1599
    @albireotheredguard1599 2 месяца назад +2

    That kid talking with Madison was the smartest character in the show, I wish we had seen what happened to him and how far he made it.

  • @ian7064
    @ian7064 6 месяцев назад +32

    Tobias was a cool character. I wish we could've found out what happened to him

    • @onetallpheeesh
      @onetallpheeesh 6 месяцев назад +9

      Hes allegedly still alive some 15 years into the apocalypse. I hope he shows up in Tales

    • @FrederickTheAnon14W
      @FrederickTheAnon14W 6 месяцев назад +2

      I also wish that we could've gotten an explanation as to what ultimately happened to Tobias, However I'm also glad that he didn't get the Morales treatment where he was brought back just for a few episodes and then killed off without any further explanation. One of the old showrunners for Fear stated that he considered Tobias to be alive after the collapse, However subsequent showrunners haven't stated this so his fate remains unknown and thus there's always a chance that he might be brought back at some point.

    • @icrywhenisleep2130
      @icrywhenisleep2130 6 месяцев назад

      ​@onetallpheeesh they never talked about him after season 1 unless I missed something Madison said during the final season, he could be alive since the guy in daryl dixon says California has a huge settlement that's doing good

    • @zsuzsannasalda
      @zsuzsannasalda 3 месяца назад

      Everyone on earth carries the virus , what about the cosmonaut? He was already in space , so probably the only one who isnt?

  • @Jtroberts777
    @Jtroberts777 6 месяцев назад +13

    Brother. This is amazing. Man, if you did like a weekly video or a playlist on here with the timeline and what happens in this universe from a week to week or month to month basis? That would be the best thing for TWDU RUclips

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  6 месяцев назад +2

      Thanks so much!
      I’ve definitely been considering it! It’s a pretty convoluted timeline so it would be good to lay it out

  • @sneakysasquatch6014
    @sneakysasquatch6014 6 месяцев назад +24

    I feel bad for the cosmonaut 👨‍🚀 😢😢😢

    • @TheRealRusDaddy
      @TheRealRusDaddy 5 месяцев назад +1

      I wonder if he turned too or if he was the last person to die a natural death

  • @shenanigameshd9461
    @shenanigameshd9461 Месяц назад +1

    Monument Day would’ve been my 8th Birthday, I can only imagine what Boston would have been like being from Massachusetts myself

  • @Blackkid42
    @Blackkid42 Месяц назад +1

    Ngl, I wonder about what happened in certain prisons. People die in jail everyday. Cellmates probably got ate

  • @akitoartz209
    @akitoartz209 6 месяцев назад +9

    keep doing this type of content im enjoying every bite fr

  • @jessicanewberry5404
    @jessicanewberry5404 6 месяцев назад +9

    These videos are the BEST! Keep em coming. ❤

  • @letsgobrandontrump2024
    @letsgobrandontrump2024 6 месяцев назад +5

    Fastest I’ve ever subed to a RUclips channel keep it up man you are like the British runner or Roanoke of the walking dead

  • @chrisjolly9363
    @chrisjolly9363 6 месяцев назад +5

    I’m really enjoying your videos. Keep up the good work. It’s hard to keep everything in a correct timeline.

  • @bethbaxter2922
    @bethbaxter2922 4 месяца назад +2

    I love these videos, the extra detail into the show I love ❤️

  • @Veela666
    @Veela666 Месяц назад +1

    It's funny how the Clarks went through so much shit, and Rick was sleeping or at the camp.

  • @justinanderson4315
    @justinanderson4315 6 месяцев назад +2

    The whole collapse of society is terrifying to see.

  • @NazarethPriest
    @NazarethPriest 3 месяца назад +1

    There was a webisode called "Flight ###" ( i forget the number) where the virus showed up earliest. Nick witnessed this plane falling out of sky BEFORE his girlfriend turned into zombie in that church. An asian lady on plane noted she was already familiar with virus BEFORE outbreak on plane.

  • @saby7825
    @saby7825 6 месяцев назад +3

    I don't give a damn what anyone says about it, there needs to be a show about the start to full collapse. The demand is there.

  • @SrHiroo
    @SrHiroo 6 месяцев назад +3

    literally wasted potential to not having a series exploring monument day, its such a cool concept, the little things they've showed about it are some of the most interesting parts in my opinion, fucking criminal they haven't done much to explore it

  • @killer4kash
    @killer4kash 6 месяцев назад +3

    With content this good, it pretty much makes it impossible not to like and subscribe. Well done Ty. 👏 🎉

  • @jamesdime6865
    @jamesdime6865 4 месяца назад +1

    The problem with FTWD is it quickly became TWD really fast. Hearing the broadcast in the back ground, seeing news reports, etc are way more terrifying than the post world. They should do a 2-3 episode spin off of the guy in space. Seeing his prospective.

  • @burrow-Burrow1364
    @burrow-Burrow1364 6 месяцев назад +4

    I’m really starting to enjoy this type of Contant keep it up

    • @burrow-Burrow1364
      @burrow-Burrow1364 6 месяцев назад

      I don’t really see this that much in this community short formed information Contant

  • @Nitero_
    @Nitero_ 6 месяцев назад +4

    great vid man, really enjoyed it.

  • @lastnightslipstick
    @lastnightslipstick 6 месяцев назад +3

    L❤VE This! Best start to my Saturday, Thank You🙌💎🔥

  • @raccoonpope1904
    @raccoonpope1904 2 месяца назад

    i never finished twd or even ftwd but i love your videos as i was a major fan up until season 9 and seeing where the show went and the lore it has is really cool

  • @HistoricalConflict
    @HistoricalConflict 5 месяцев назад +1

    That first season of fear The walking Dead was so damn good

  • @Jarod-vg9wq
    @Jarod-vg9wq 19 дней назад

    First few episodes of FTWD & WD flashback episodes are the best best of the franchise.

  • @gilbertlopez183
    @gilbertlopez183 3 месяца назад +1

    I watch these videos for the narrator's hypnotic eyebrows

  • @yellow_gacha7152
    @yellow_gacha7152 6 месяцев назад +1

    I was always hopeful that we would see Tobias again in Fear The Walking Dead, but sadly Kirkman never got round to it, but now with fear finished and Madison back on the seen going back to Los Angeles, i now have high hopes .

  • @killerninjaz13
    @killerninjaz13 6 месяцев назад +3

    For situations like this if they just immediately told everyone how the infection works
    Its highly likely most of the world would remian stable

    • @berserk4souls
      @berserk4souls 5 месяцев назад

      Oh like how smooth COVID went? You would have so many people think it’s fake news.

  • @NazarethPriest
    @NazarethPriest 3 месяца назад +1

    The WILDFIRE VIRUS was introduced in remake of George Romero's DAY OF THE DEAD.

  • @thegamingchicken945
    @thegamingchicken945 Месяц назад

    I really find the end of the world so intriguing and hearing how governments handle different types of situations

  • @alospraylo3553
    @alospraylo3553 5 месяцев назад

    The big mailbox thing being flipped at 5:11 is insane them things are bolted down and even if they weren’t they are heavy af. No idea why but I thought that was funny 😂

  • @ClassicHarleyQuinn
    @ClassicHarleyQuinn 5 месяцев назад

    I think biting and/or scratching introduces the body to the virus in its active farm rather then the dormant form that doesn't activate until death. This causes the body to try and fight it like any other virus/bacteria hence symptoms like Fever, coughing, aches and pains etc. The dormant form of the virus probably also wakes up and makes the process faster. Theoretically there's is a incredibly and I mean next to impossible chance that someone could actually beat the virus someway, some how.

  • @Omega_thehusky
    @Omega_thehusky 2 месяца назад

    i just found this channel stopped watching walking dead after the negan arc couldnt keep up with it. how many variations or branches are their of this show i cant believe they went this deep with the lore this is amazing lol

  • @coachb2766
    @coachb2766 7 дней назад

    When the electricity goes it is all over.

  • @wyattjohnson1160
    @wyattjohnson1160 6 месяцев назад +1

    Well if a virus like this happens in our world (it can’t) everyone would know what to do and society would likely not collapse. I find this really interesting I used to be scared of this series but I’ve grown used to it. Keep up the good work!!

    • @Sheed96
      @Sheed96 6 месяцев назад

      yes it can

  • @Tejano12398
    @Tejano12398 6 месяцев назад +2

    It’s crazy how society fell in 2010

  • @BadLuckLuke
    @BadLuckLuke 6 месяцев назад +2

    Extraordinary content!!!
    Keep it up,

  • @Gators1216
    @Gators1216 5 месяцев назад

    I know they did fear but they should do like a series of like “The Walking Dead: day 1” And the episodes all saying like 3 weeks in and 2 months in or something like that. Seeing how it began in city’s like Chicago or Miami or in Colorado would be interesting I think. Seeing how people all across the world lived thru the beginning days of the apocalypse

  • @Yusuf14-09
    @Yusuf14-09 6 месяцев назад +3

    In Ftwd the hospital staff that nick was in. The hospital staff new what happens when someone dies because they were putting dead bodies in the basement

  • @bunibel
    @bunibel 6 месяцев назад +2

    Love your videos thank you friend

  • @anonymousanonym450
    @anonymousanonym450 2 месяца назад

    I LOVED the start of fear

  • @fearthehoneybadger
    @fearthehoneybadger 2 месяца назад

    They probably would have called the Cosmonaut back. Officials knew something was happening before everyone else did.

  • @rijidernacht1157
    @rijidernacht1157 2 месяца назад

    I'd wanna see a series that's stories of day one survivors as they experience the outbreak day 1. Just each season goes to a different city or part of the world.

  • @Jarod-vg9wq
    @Jarod-vg9wq 19 дней назад

    2:03 imagine the reaction o the main characters of walking dead find out about Primrose & they are the one who started all this. (The people surviving members of the team will be hunted down)

  • @Someth1ngLight
    @Someth1ngLight 6 месяцев назад +1

    It would be really nice to get a government perspective with the president or something to at least know what happened or where they fled to

  • @aaronpasetti
    @aaronpasetti 6 месяцев назад

    You made my Saturday so much better and eating my dinner and watching this making this ten times better! You keep on making my day and awesome videos!

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  6 месяцев назад +1

      Hey glad to hear it! Thanks for watching!

    • @aaronpasetti
      @aaronpasetti 6 месяцев назад

      @@Swell-Films now here a question do you ever think you will do a video about the Atlanta Police officers in season 5? They saw the cobalt and seeing the military killing civilians.

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  6 месяцев назад +1

      @@aaronpasetti absolutely! I’ll admit it’s not at the top of the list, but I’ll definitely be making one on Grady memorial eventually!

    • @aaronpasetti
      @aaronpasetti 6 месяцев назад

      @@Swell-Films perfect because they have a good backstory and this is the crazy part did they know about CDC exploding or Rick shooting down in the city plus we saw the hospital in season 2 episode 1

  • @mr.halloween3371
    @mr.halloween3371 6 месяцев назад +1

    Anyone else read the Andromeda Strain?
    Cause you should. I read it in the 90's and it pretty much spells out the Walking Dead and current society.

  • @zombiebullshark3834
    @zombiebullshark3834 4 месяца назад +1

    Bro I walk away from this show for 5 years and suddenly there are like 4 extra shows 😂

  • @darkazon5343
    @darkazon5343 6 месяцев назад

    This is what we want to see! Not excactly how the virus originated, but how the society fell

  • @VintageNarwhal
    @VintageNarwhal 6 месяцев назад +2

    You should make a playlist of these videos in chronological order!

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  6 месяцев назад +2

      I actually have one! It’s “The Walking Dead Universe Lore Explained & Explored”
      You should be able to see it in my playlist section on my channel

    • @VintageNarwhal
      @VintageNarwhal 6 месяцев назад

      @@Swell-Films oh hell yes! Thank you! 😎

  • @King_Steffon_II
    @King_Steffon_II 5 месяцев назад

    I was only in the 10th grade during these events. With a new dog and my mom's birthday is on August 26. As a former NYer at that time, I can say my family and I wouldn't have survived 😭

  • @leagab4236
    @leagab4236 6 месяцев назад

    holy man this video is amazing the editing is exquisite it gives me a scary eerie type of vibe love the vids bro ur so underrated

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  6 месяцев назад +1

      Hey thanks so much mate!

  • @gajeel9798
    @gajeel9798 6 месяцев назад +5

    Its interesting but for some reason it just bothers me, like why would you be RIOTING while a dude next to you is getting munched on

    • @FrederickTheAnon14W
      @FrederickTheAnon14W 6 месяцев назад

      Because at this point the vast majority of people weren't even anywhere close to realizing what was going on. The information was out there but if their universe (Which seems to be very closely resembling ours) is anything like ours then such information was taken down and censored early on as "Conspiracy Theories" so only a few small sites and groups of people had this information during the collapse, And since the collapse took place over 2 days there wasn't a whole lot of time for this information to come to light to the general population before either the Internet (Along with the power) went down, Or they encountered the Wildfire Virus first hand.
      That's why the whole riot got started in the first place because the citizens weren't aware of the Wildfire Virus and just thought that the Police had killed an innocent homeless man. And you also gotta realize that in a riot with all kinds of chaos going on a lot of people aren't going to be paying attention because their attention span is going to either be nonexistent (Due to the stress of the riot) or entirely focused on something else, In this case either the Police (If you're a rioter) or the rioters (If you're the Police).

    • @odst_735
      @odst_735 6 месяцев назад

      I feel like in the chaos during the riots people wouldn’t be able to tell until it was too late

    • @gajeel9798
      @gajeel9798 6 месяцев назад

      @odst8709 I guess? But like seeing ppl writhing on the ground might be a dead give away...also did they keep trying to eat ppl fully or just "bite, turn, move on to the next"

    • @nevyanplamenov5409
      @nevyanplamenov5409 6 месяцев назад +3

      @@gajeel9798 Well, knowing that people in TWD universe had no concept of zombies as we do, they thought the police were shooting sick patients and that's the reason the riots began. In the chaos, the walker's senses were overwhelmed with so much sound and smell and yeah, they went from one victim to another, and people probably thought it was some street fight or whatever

    • @gajeel9798
      @gajeel9798 6 месяцев назад

      @nevyanplamenov5409 oof interesting...tho cause naturally a virus would want to spread to as many hosts as possible but since everyone was infected already....I guess it was just "step 2: speed up process" also wonder if the dude in the ISS would turn when he eventually died...space zombies!!! Lol

  • @ThoseBackPages
    @ThoseBackPages 5 месяцев назад +1

    Tobias got a raw deal

  • @Shoewearer20211
    @Shoewearer20211 Месяц назад

    I love your videos, but I just wanted to clarify Jims case was unique it did take him two days to turn but if you remember them going to the CDC later in the first season of The Walking Dead that Dr. Edwin Jenner‘s wife, her transformation took two hours and he had received reports that one had turned in as little as three minutes to support the three minute theory or a short reanimation theory after Rick killed Shane in season two episode 12 it took about maybe five minutes for Shane to come back it’s different for every vessel

  • @karlrovey
    @karlrovey 2 месяца назад

    Continuing executions as normal once the virus was known as an incredibly stupid decision (where we see Teddy escape prison).

  • @nysubwaydude5634
    @nysubwaydude5634 4 месяца назад

    Imagine being a police responding to a person who got hit by a truck or a bus and that person stood and trying to attack the others and you fired a round into the torso only for them to keep walking to bute or violently attack someone else and that person who got attacked to turn like them.

  • @TheRealRusDaddy
    @TheRealRusDaddy 5 месяцев назад

    Walking dead really thrives telling early storys about how people got to where they are and what they were doing when shit popped off

  • @ebcbr1791
    @ebcbr1791 6 месяцев назад +1

    Your videos are better than the actual show.

  • @hyquiemistheg.o.a.t1671
    @hyquiemistheg.o.a.t1671 3 месяца назад

    7:48 probably the most realistic part of such an apocalypse. People who don’t want to do their job. 😂

  • @jmsgridiron5628
    @jmsgridiron5628 5 месяцев назад +1

    Just cause the CDC is giving up on curing it, doesn't mean I'd give up trying to survive. Realistically, any place that has a hot climate or a temperate climate getting hit during the height of summer would see the undead rotting away to bone within months. A corpse is a corpse so they'll rot until there's nothing left. Espesically out in the heat while not being embalmed.

  • @jdgoesham5381
    @jdgoesham5381 5 месяцев назад +1

    I was disappointed in not getting enough of the fall of civilization from a larger view in this show but Fear in the end I though for the most part was well written and acted. There were times when I think Fear was much better than TWD was at the time.
    IDK if you TWD fans know but there are novels of TWD and they're really good. One series with about 9 books is about how the Governor became the Governor then it becomes Lilly Caul's series and it's a really fun exciting series. But then there's a standalone novel of the outbreak in China. With a white lady stuck in China trying to survive and such. Which made me want them to do a series outside the US badly and then we got it with Daryl Dixon and France. And hopefully maybe other countries like Spain or some UK countries. But a show that starts at the downfall and not after.

  • @thexpolishxwolf5236
    @thexpolishxwolf5236 6 месяцев назад

    Found your channel for Walking Dead content, sticking around for the same content! Top tier and underrated creator!