No real mystery. Killing people is bad. Wasting zombies is fun and morally acceptable.
One factor is that PC heavily limits who can be “the bad guy” and still be at all believable. The undead are still fair game.
Zombies feed on brains. They will starve in Washington D.C.
You are missing books.
Dump the boob tube.
I never watch TV, so perhaps I shouldn’t talk.
But although I have been a fantasy and science fiction fan for most of my life, I find zombie stories a dead bore. I can’t imagine watching that kind of junk.
Postmodern perversity, I suppose. Even if the zombie apocalypse is coming, who the hell wants to get involved with it until it’s forced on them?
Art imitating life is what they call it, I think...
Lots of unredeemed ‘walking dead’ everywhere you go..
Sadly, this nation is a center for pumping it out throughout the world....
TWD is more about human interaction and survival and what people have to do in order to survive than it is about zombies. It’s about the balance between individual responsibility and self reliance, and the risks associated with relying on others for your survival. It’s about not being able to eat if you can’t contribute.
http://www.cdc.gov/phpr/zombies.htm
It's like any of the apocalyptic, the end of the world fascinations. I prefer the real biblical end times. I can't watch the Gordy part.
While my husband watches walking dead, I pretend the zombies are democrats. They walk around brain dead looking to eat off of others. You have to keep your kids away or they might get infected by them. You have to go for the head to kill them. That's democrats problem too.
My husband bought me a zombie killer form home defense. It's actually a 320 pump shotgun. It looks scary enough to make someone run.
Once the rapture happens and God’s Holy Spirit is removed, people will revert to their natural unsaved evil state...
Sad reality, but true...
I hear ya,, it was werewolves .. And then all of a sudden,,
“The Walking Dead” = The Walking Democrats
They feed off the living and the productive while destroying everything in their path. Totally useless.
I saw The Last Man on Earth a long time ago, and a couple of the scenes really creeped me out as a kid. I saw the film on YouTube recently, and those scenes are still creepy. In that film, they are not zombies, but vampires, and can talk. One of the creepiest scenes in the film was copied in a scene from the Walking Dead.
The Walking Dead isn’t great because it has zombies in it.
the Walking Dead is great because of the depth of the human characters, and the quality of the acting, writing and production.
I read that zombies are a social substitute xenophobia for people who are afraid of other races, but can’t permit themselves to feel those feelings without taking the mantle of racism.
The analogy works in several ways.
Zombie shows are about zombies as much as Jaws was about sharks.
It has little to do with the actions of the zombies and more to do with how the survivors deal with their situations.
Think about Raiders of the Lost Ark. One American archaeologist taking on a Nazi military force, natural hazards, and supernatural threats. People watched because they wanted to see if he could overcome it all, and how he would go about doing so.
Same as a zombie apocalypse.
There’s a threat, they know it and deal with it as anyone would, but the interaction with OTHER threats (The Governor, the flu virus, lack of supplies, etc) provides the desire to be immersed into the human drama that the story provides.
Almost every zombie movie runs on this formula. From Night of the Living Dead to World War Z.
Pontiphar
Genesis 39