Fear the Walking Dead season 5 spoilers: Does the radiation still matter?

As we start to move more into the second half of Fear the Walking Dead season 5, let’s ask a simple question in regards to radiation — how important is it still? How much should we thinking about it?

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Well, for now the good news is that Alicia is alive and that the zombie-blood radiation hasn’t killed her immediately. Meanwhile, the same could go for some of the other characters, as well. Radiation poisoning, from the limited amount that we know about it, can impact people in a lot of different ways. It often doesn’t journey from one person to the next in a straight line. Think of this as something to consider more and more as we move further into the second half of this season.

Based on what show executive producer Andrew Chambliss had to say on the subject to Entertainment Weekly, this is not something that they want us to forget about anytime soon:

As Grace said, it’s something that affects different people differently. It’s not like they have access to high-tech medical equipment to test anyone. A lot of characters have been exposed to the radiation in the course of this past season. Grace, obviously, Alicia, Morgan went into the irradiated zone, Strand and Charlie crashed the balloon in there. So, it’s definitely something that I think is going to be on people’s minds moving forward.

The frustrating thing about it for many characters may just be the fact that they can’t do anything about assessing their physical condition. There’s no clear-cut way to measure how they’re doing. They just have to move forward.

Of course, there’s also one other way that they could think about their mortality — there are millions of other things that could kill them in this world. If radiation does some of these people in they’ll just have to deal with it. (If these people all die of radiation poisoning, though, just how lame will that be?)

What do you want to see coming up on Fear the Walking Dead season 5?

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