Here's a great zombie headshot (well, maybe pre-zombie, but the guy knew where he was heading):
(Thanks for the ping Randall!)
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 12/08/2010 8:19:33 PM PST by DogByte6RER
I'm hardly a "Zombie Apocalypse" fanatic (I watched a few of the Walking Dead shows...they were entertaining).
However - the questions that you asked were largely answered by a book called "World War Z". Look it up, I enjoyed it. It was a fast read.
Here's a great zombie headshot (well, maybe pre-zombie, but the guy knew where he was heading):
(Thanks for the ping Randall!)
Oh, good Lord! You know what this means...
We have yet something ELSE in common.
(Kinda scary!)
;-)
If everyone gets inside a ship on port and goes out to sea, the zombies cannot reach them. Even getting into docked or beached solid ship in port and pulling up all the ladders works - they can’t climb the sides of ship.
Because it’s owned by one of the characters before things went bad. So they know it works, and most importantly they know it doesn’t have an alarm (loud sounds draw zombies). The problem with all those other vehicles sitting around is they know nothing about, they don’t know if they work, if the engine is load, if it has an alarm, how much gas is in it. Yeah a better vehicle would be nice, but you have to get it, and that entails a number of risks.
Zombies are popular because vampires got ruined. Vampires used to be a solid source of intractable evil for stories, vampires were bad, they were never not bad, and the hero character would always have to fight them. Now vampires sparkle. But zombies can’t sparkle, zombies will always be the enemy of the living. And they come with a great end of the world scenario that lots of people like to consider.
A large quantity of people, especially people that feel no pain or fear, can over run any position. Eventually you run out of ammo, and fuel, and traction, and morale.
The Navy very well might still be out there. Problem is to be useful they need to land, which means they become a ground force, which runs into all those problems. Sure you can bomb the cities from the air, nice and safe from the zombies, but you’re also killing civilians, and burning up that finite supply of ammo and fuel and morale (people really tend to not like bombing their own cities).
Yes, there are plenty of people who would survive this kind of apocolypse, from everyone on the ocean, to the extremely rural, miners, etc. While I thought the first episode was well done, I didn't like that the protagonist woke up in a hospital. This has already been done in a zombie-ish movie, 28 days later. It would have been cool to see some miners get cut off from the surface, fight their way to the top, come out into a zombie apocolypse, and realize the people on the surface were protecting them by cutting them off.
That opening came from the comics on which the series is based, which came out around the same time as 28 Days Later. Sometimes good ideas are so good multiple people have them at the same time.
Thank you for saying that :)!
I can’t wait that long!
I agree with everything you said. I guess I just didn’t think that much about the choice of vehicle. And you’re right— Vampires are not supposed to be sparkly!
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