Fear Begins Here!.....

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maybe I didn't read after I asked. I vaguely remember asking something but I honestly don't recall a drawn out discussion or debate

I wouldn't call remakes spinoffs exactly either. the batman movies are remakes. same story about the same character. but the show gotham is a spinoff of the batman world. like how fear is a spinoff. it tells the story in the same world of the original, but slightly follows other characters

I don't know, maybe it's not a traditional spinoff, but I think it's a spinoff for sure
 
Heres an article on Forbes that's also blowing the whistle on it being a true spin off (for the same reasons)

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but a spinoff doesn't have to follow only character(s)

a spinoff can follow an event. one product that spawned another product in the same world (past, present or future)

this is from Wikipedia, and I agree with it's definition. ftwd falls under this definition

In media, a spin-off is a radio program, television program, video game, film, or any narrative work, derived from one or more already existing works, that focuses, in particular, in more detail on one aspect of that original work (e.g. a particular topic, character, or event). A spin-off may be called a sidequel when it exists in the same chronological frame of time as its predecessor work.
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I didn't say it has to follow characters, I said it needs to have some crossover between the 2 shows. The premises barely has any crossover (the infection is the lone link) AND THE WRITERS/PRODUCERS were also being careful on calling it a spin off when we first started hearing about the show.

I just wanted to point out I'm not alone. Let's move it on cuz if anyone asked me what's fear the walking dead id say TWD prequel/spinoff just because it's shorter to say it that way
 
but you just said your definition of a spinoff would be like if joker got his own movie. that's a character

you also said it has to have a crossover

i'm saying that a spinoff doesn't strictly only have to have those two elements to make it a spinoff
 
SumoNinja said:
but you just said your definition of a spinoff would be like if joker got his own movie. that's a character

you also said it has to have a crossover

i'm saying that a spinoff doesn't strictly only have to have those two elements to make it a spinoff
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Crossover doesn't mean crossing over a character. The cross over is the infection in the form of a prequel. Seriously just kill the convo. It's blatantly obvious that many people don't view it as a traditional crossover and it falls along the line the law and order shows (a question you've blown off). What more is there to discuss?
 
ballinouttacntrol said:
Crossover doesn't mean crossing over a character. The cross over is the infection in the form of a prequel. Seriously just kill the convo. It's blatantly obvious that many people don't view it as a traditional crossover and it falls along the line the law and order shows (a question you've blown off). What more is there to discuss?
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lol, ok, i'm just confused I guess by your definition. I guess I assumed when you first mentioned "crossover" that you meant the characters from the original would cross paths with the fear characters

so you are saying there is a crossover (in that there is the infection and it's a prequel)? doesn't that link the two shows which makes one a spinoff of the other?

and is not a traditional spinoff and untraditional spinoff still both spin offs?

and when you mention law and order, do you mean the show law and order? or do you mean a genre referred to as law and order? either way, I don't watch those shows. so I didn't blow it off, I just can't speak on it because I never seen them
 
I thought he meant the tv shows.
 
Crossover means SOMETHING from one show/movie that's transfered over to another show/movie.

For example, the avenger movies. The fact that there's no crossover planned is why even the WRITERS were not wanting to define it as a spinoff. They share a world, the lone link. A traditional spin off would be the webisodes you watch. Further exploring something from the original show (the biker chick as an example).

The Law and Order shows are a few completely different police precents in diff cities or branches of investigations by the same creator. They exist on their own but occasionally a character from another show will do a joint investigation on another show. There's also references to the other shows (detective in NY calling up detective on another show off camera). Blatant, obvious crossovers. I'm talking about thousands of episodes though with maybe only a dozen episodes of actual on camera crossover.

The crossover from FEAR and the walking dead is only the infection and the fact that it's the same world (albeit years earlier). They're not even going to call them zombies.
 
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