How Fear The Walking Dead Season 7 Gives Alicia Madison's Journey
Alicia Clark explains how she became Fear The Walking Dead's lead protagonist, but her story gives off strong echoes of how her own mother, Madison, rose to the top. Fear The Walking Dead season 7's «Follow Me» finds Alicia (portrayed by Alycia Debnam-Carey) in a period of transition. Chopping off her own zombie-bitten arm has, understandably, affected her mental well-being, and a constant fever has convinced Alicia she's destined to turn undead at any given moment. Searching for meaning and desperate to find PADRE for her people, Alicia even resorted to using a zombie politician as a sat-nav.
Needless to say, it didn't work, but Fear The Walking Dead's latest mid-season premiere provides a much needed moment of clarity. Speaking to Morgan Jones back on his submarine, Alicia realizes the voice pushing her to find PADRE wasn't a zombie after all, but her own inner voice rising to the surface. She describes the sensation as, "My mom had her dream, Nick had his, you have yours. I've always had such strong voices around me, I've never really stopped to listen to mine… but I am now."
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In this moment, Fear The Walking Dead cements Alicia as its main hero. Though Debnam-Carey has always stood among the spinoff's main cast, she never quite took top billing. Her mother, Madison, emerged as Fear The Walking Dead's answer to Rick Grimes, before brother Nick (Frank Dillane) adopted a central role of his own. Then, once both relatives had fallen to the terrors of the apocalypse, a wild Lennie James appeared as Morgan Jones, immediately claiming the spotlight as an import from The Walking Dead. After 7 seasons surrounded by these strong personalities, Alicia is
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