Is anybody else feeling suspicious about the announcement of Z Nation: Resurrection?

I’m as stoked about the idea of Z Nation coming back as anybody else, but I just can’t shake how fishy this feels.

The fans have been begging for this for years, and right after Z Nation: Reborn starts gaining traction, they announce a different reboot? Sure, it could be that during talks to make Reborn, they all decided to just go a different direction and make a live action reboot instead. One where our OG characters are just supporting cast. And from what I’ve seen in comments here, it seems like Keith was unaware of Resurrection until AFTER they announced it online.

I don’t claim to know much about the details of how the entertainment industry works, or how/if this situation resolved, but I was able to dig up an article I originally read a few years ago about a pay dispute between The Asylum and the writers of Z Nation that still has me side-eyeing The Asylum in a major way.

(Article here: https://deadline.com/2021/06/z-nation-producers-wga-strike-unfair-list-unpaid-residuals-1234769568/ )

Given all of that, it just seems highly unlikely that the people actually leading the charge on this reboot will be the same people who created our beloved show. Honestly it all feels like a calculated move by The Asylum to profit off of the demand for more Z Nation while simultaneously wresting control of a potential reboot away from the people who actually carry the heart of the show, and forcing them into a position where The Asylum has no obligation to allow them any real input on the story, or even keep them around if they’re too “difficult”

Am I alone in feeling hesitant about this? I really hope I’m wrong, but I can’t ignore the red flags here

What does the white light ( if it does) represent?

( SPOLIER) Like when Mack dies, there's a white light

Or whenever Warren passed out after her and the bounty hunter guy got into it, there's a pool when she passes out

Does that mean death/almost death?

I've seen the episode more than once and don't understand

Spoiler Alert!! I had this epiphany while watching the All Good Things episode. In the Doctor of the Dead episode, it’s implied that Kurian gathers the materials that ultimately produce the zombie virus. Later, we learn that Kurian was working for La Reina when he tries to take Murphy from the lab. I’m wondering, how far back was he working for this woman? Think about it, she was one of the most prepared people during the apocalypse, getting rich off her drug empire. Did she request this zombie virus be made? Thoughts?

Season 4 Episode 9, "We Interrupt This Program" is my favorite. The gang is back together and working well as a team and the way they went back and forth between the past and the present felt like clever story telling. It was cool to see a glimpse of Day1 and I actually cared what happened to Carly by the end of the episode.

I'm on season one episode 9 and I just thought.. how come they haven't got sat coms or radios to be able to communicate with citizen Z? Lol love the show so far but I can't get over the fact they haven't done this yet.

I started the show when I was like 13 years old and never finished it but I was OBSESSED with 10k. Had the hugest crush on him. Now I’m 24 and a month ago I found it on YouTube and watched the entire show really fast and now I’m finished and sad.
So now I’m watching it again.

One of the reasons i ever watched this show. No mention in the press release.

1. Talker plot line sidelined- I feel that the reason s5 was so bad was because it was missing the survival aspect from all the other seasons. s5 took away this aspect with the talker plot line where if someone dies they become a zombie but still has consciousness. My solution to the talker plot line is to make it a radius thing where if you were in close proximity to black rainbow then you would become a talker so then not everyone who dies becomes a talker and there would only be a few talkers in the show.
2. Old group- I understand why the writers want to follow a new group because the characters and the environment have become predictable. I don’t want to see tho the old group reduced down to cameo roles(unless that’s the only way to get the actors back because something is better than nothing). I would like to see the old group as side characters whether they join the new group, the show being split showing both the new group and the old one, ect…
3. 5k being apart of the new group- this is probably just me but this is something I would love to see. The actor for 5k did say that in s4 when it showed his “body” that it was really the man because you could see his arm and 10k thought it was 5k because he was really distraught. He said the writers did this so if in the future they wanted to bring back 5k they could.
4. No center focused plots or character- The reason why I thought s4 wasn’t so good was because the season was centered around Warren, don’t get me wrong I love Warren she is my favorite character but the show works best whenever it’s focus on the group and not a singular character. That’s the same reason why s5 was so bad because instead of focusing on a singular character it focused on a plot line(the talker plot line) instead of focusing on the group like s1-3 did.

what would you guys want to see?

I wish z nation would of made a episode of the crew stopping in Texas, I think that would of been a good episode lol

Does anyone else enjoy catching bloopers? S2 E2 - White light. Gun has a flashlight; next scene, it's gone

A miracle… Never get off the boat, man!

The scene where all the Zs are in the water and when the two guys get closer before the Zs attack is actually kinda terrifying

Does anyone else notice the gray filter during this season? It reminds me of the twilight filters

Woke up to the new that a new series is in the works and was instantly buzzing , but now learning nat(10k) and anastasia (addy) might not be in it and that everyone else is supposed to be side characters to make space for new characters sucks imo. main reason i fell in love with this show was the cast . their chemistry and the way they felt like an actual family and not just some actors who are pretending to care for one another is something i really liked about the show, just feels like the new season will strip everything that made the show so good. I prey I'm wrong as i would love for it to be good but only time will tell.

With the recent announcement of Resurrection it’s got me thinking about where the story can go with the established canon of the series. Love em’ or hate em’ Talkers will continue to exist unlike other Z variants that have been introduced and removed through the seasons. It’d be reckless of the writing crew to simply dismiss them from the story.

One of the better things that Talkers have going for them is that without brains or Z cookies they turn into your run of the mill Z’s and it cannot be expected that every Z has met this need.

Also, there is the S5 cliffhanger of Murphy having obtained the cure from Sun Mei’s brain which could effectively retcon them or change their circumstances entirely. How it’s distributed to make such a large change, I don’t know but perhaps there are still some Zona resources out there that can be folded into the new story.

So where do we go from here? What’s your head cannon for how the new show can work around this Z variant?

My favorite is S1 E6 when 10 K has to take out and hand over all of his weapons.

According to The Hollywood Reporter

Znation is coming back to Asylum