Posted on 03/29/2014 12:00:33 PM PDT by lee martell
I don't have a tv of my own, but I see enough and hear enough to know that for some reason, Zombies are a hot sell on American tv right now. See the popularity of shows such as The Walking Dead. In fact, I heard there is even a new perfume for women coming to the market this spring, based on this show. The Walking Dead Perfume. Really? I'm not necessarily bothered by it, to each his own, but for the life of me, I can't figure out what has brought us to this level of fascination. I have read many, many of Dean Koontz books over the last ten years. I kept reading them, until he spent too much time trying to humanize the Antagonist by giving him/her a 'cool' sense of humor. I like my monsters scary and predominately unappealing, but there are always exceptions.
I tried off and on for years to appreciate Steven King, especially back in the 90's when he was cranking the books out like Wheat Linguine, but a rarely stayed with any of his work till completion. Most of Steven King's books read to me, like a never ending monologue, or as my junior high english teacher; Sister Richardene would say, a run-on sentence; something I still fall into today if not careful. I sampled some Anne Rice books. I never completed any of her stories because I was lost into the minutiae of character analysis, and I have never made the link between love and blood, at least not in the ritualistic manner of Rice. I see cable once in a while, I see the commercials about upcoming programs featuring Cannibalism, The Apocalypse, Tomorrow's Dystopia, Body Parts being ripped off and used as clubs. Is it that the Zombies has become today's most acceptable villian because most people share an energetic fear of the unknown? Is that it? To me, if you;ve seen one Hollywood Zombie with the strawberry jelly for blood and all the neat, symetrically placed spots of gangrene, you've seen them all. Am I wrong?
“Differently vital”?
Because there is no National Association for the Advancement of Dead People.
I prefer the old style zombie from WHITE ZOMBIE and I WALK WITH A ZOMBIE.
"Partial Death Syndrome" in the British series In the Flesh. The zombies get drugs to help them control their craving for flesh and are mainstreamed into society. The show was actually more about homosexuality (in a coded, oblique way) than anything else.
If you had watched the first season your question would've been answered. The writers did an very good job of explaining how the virus reanimates the zombie.
What else could I do, as I lie awake in my bed, listening to their approach, the distant sounds of a churning stomp over waste strewn paths, a morbidly menacing march over the muddy, bloody grasses.
Reanimation can’t happen on putrefied flesh can it? What about cut off limbs, crushed bone structures, organs pierced or ripped out/missing? What about lacerations and loss of blood? How does the blood come back to provide energy to all the bodies billions of cells? And if so where would the energy come from to do so? People EAT to (slowly) grow tissue; even cancerous growths.
Zombies would make far more sense if it was a disease of LIVING people, not already broken ones.
Then there are the Zombies from Britain with two of their biggest hits,”There A Time Of The Season” and “She’s Not There”.
Re. my last comment, the political narratives portray the “zombies” as the inner city folks on food stamps and the like (former private sector, now unemployed) attacking suburbs full of worthy, government-employed and otherwise government-linked professionals. Politics: quite a show following the movement of American manufacturing to commies/fascists overseas.
The virus is said to alter the brain and gives a limited (lower functions) reboot. The Zombie can barely see (light and movement only) and the older they get the less dangerous they are because they start losing mobility (the limbs stiffen up) Zombies deteriorate and eventually die if they don't feed. From what I've read on this particular milieu is zombie body still works but badly after reanimation.
In essence the Walking Dead Zombies are a hybrid of Romero (Supernatural reanimated dead) and Boyle (Virus infected humans) Zombies.
is it plausible? No. But the writers honored what was considered canon in the comic books and did a decent job of making sense of it all.
Reanimated undead are not really anything to worry about in the real world. However, Boyle Zombies (28 Days Later) A.K.A. Weaponized Rabies Virus Infected Humans are very plausible. Rabies in advanced form attacks the reasoning functions in the human brain and turns the subject mad. In this day and age with terrorists bent on destroying the West and the advent of gene splicing and genetic engineering, Boyle Zombies are a very real possibility. And the Walking Dead could've went that way but its all based on the Comic book and so they didn't go total "Boyle Zombie" but I suppose they were afraid to alienate the large following the Comic Books had.
yeah but given the character and her just not getting it, and murdering now, and given it was carol, you knew how it was gonna go. obviously not happy to do it but she’d be a threat. an unpredictable threat.
According to Max Brooks, a virus called Solanum causes the base functions of the brain to restart.
“Solanum works by traveling through the bloodstream, from the initial point of entry to the brain. Through means not yet fully understood, the virus uses the cells of the frontal lobe for replication, destroying them in the process. During this period, all bodily functions cease. By stopping the heart, the infected subject is rendered “dead.” The brain, however, remains alive but dormant, while the virus mutates its cells into a completely new organ.
The most critical trait of this new organ is its independence from oxygen. By removing the need for this all-important resource, the undead brain can utilize, but is in no way dependent upon, the complex support mechanism of the human body.
Once mutation is complete, this new organ reanimates the body into a form that bears little resemblance (physiologically speaking) to the original corpse. Some bodily functions remain constant, others operate in a modified capacity, and the remainder shut down completely. This new organism is a zombie, a member of the living dead.”
In a world without prisons, how do you deal with an increasingly psychotic 9 year old who just murdered her little sister and is grinning about it.
I don't have a tv of my own,
A TV for starters.....
So who's TV you watching?
She needs to look at the pretty flowers... [/Carol Problem Solving Mode]
I really like Carol. She went from meek and frightened abused wife to zombie apocalypse “problem solver”.
Yeah, I know. So unbelievable.
That is why science fiction movies that deviate from hard science are a waste. . .no matter how entertaining. . .like, those that have faster than light travel”—the whole idea is preposterous!”.
Just kidding. . .
The proliferation of vampire and zombie movies and TV shows is idiotic. A sign of cultural decay. I skip past them without another thought. If you have fun with them.....fine
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