Zombies!
I feel a bit like one myself this morning. Staying up to watch The Walking Dead kept me awake a little later than I would have otherwise chosen. West coast TV feeds are a real pain sometimes, and responsible for my failing to follow Venture Brothers this season, too. Even so, it was having the noise of my computer going that made it hard to get to sleep and stay that way. Ugh.
A zombie apocalypse series seems a little ambitious, but it works well enough that I'll try to tune in next week, too. It looks like the cast is meant to grow and change over time, as the premiere introduced us only briefly to one group of people. I like the touch of having survivors taking time to seek small bits of closure - one sighting a rifle on his risen wife, another tracking down the first zombie he saw to finish it off.
Of course, zombies in general require more suspension of disbelief than a lot of monsters. They aren't things beyond our understanding so much as things that violate our understanding of the world. Dead is pretty much dead. There's no real reason headshots would be effective against something that can endure anything else. Eating flesh and propigating by bite conflict a little. I appreciated the little twist of 28 Days Later's "infected" actually being alive, and suffering physical breakdown without and survival instincts. But even they had this inexplicable ability to mob with others of their kind, yet fall upon the uninfected.
Still, zombies are a classic (if, perhaps, a modern one in their present incarnation).
A zombie apocalypse series seems a little ambitious, but it works well enough that I'll try to tune in next week, too. It looks like the cast is meant to grow and change over time, as the premiere introduced us only briefly to one group of people. I like the touch of having survivors taking time to seek small bits of closure - one sighting a rifle on his risen wife, another tracking down the first zombie he saw to finish it off.
Of course, zombies in general require more suspension of disbelief than a lot of monsters. They aren't things beyond our understanding so much as things that violate our understanding of the world. Dead is pretty much dead. There's no real reason headshots would be effective against something that can endure anything else. Eating flesh and propigating by bite conflict a little. I appreciated the little twist of 28 Days Later's "infected" actually being alive, and suffering physical breakdown without and survival instincts. But even they had this inexplicable ability to mob with others of their kind, yet fall upon the uninfected.
Still, zombies are a classic (if, perhaps, a modern one in their present incarnation).
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