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Why Are Zombie Shows Suddenly So Popular, What am I Missing?
March 29 2014
| lee martell
Posted on 03/29/2014 12:00:33 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell
No real mystery. Killing people is bad. Wasting zombies is fun and morally acceptable.
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posted on
03/29/2014 12:51:58 PM PDT
by
Teacher317
(We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
To: lee martell
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.
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posted on
03/29/2014 12:52:09 PM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: lee martell
Zombies feed on brains. They will starve in Washington D.C.
To: Psalm 144
I honestly dont get it. Ive enjoyed fantasy and horror and gaming for decades, almost my entire life. Zombies were always the gratuitous trash mob threat to adventures, easily dispatched, and usually the matrix for some more interesting threat.
Yeah, but real people aren't the same as RPG adventurers. There's no Wizard hurling fireballs and incinerating 20 zombies at a time, Clerics instantly curing all wounds and zombie disease infections, or Fighters cleaving half-a-dozen zombies in half with their +5 Vorpal greatsword. RPG's are fun, but don't exactly represent reality all that well (I.E. Get high enough level with enough hit points and you can hurl yourself off a building and walk away as if it were nothing where in real life that same fall would've splattered you all over the pavement).
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posted on
03/29/2014 12:55:31 PM PDT
by
Optimus Prime
(Do liberals even qualify as sentient beings?)
To: Dalberg-Acton
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posted on
03/29/2014 12:55:47 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: lee martell
You are missing books.
Dump the boob tube.
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posted on
03/29/2014 12:56:41 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(vHeck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: lee martell
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?
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posted on
03/29/2014 12:57:35 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: discostu
I didn’t think I’d like Walking Dead, but the acting and the plot situations makes for a very entertaining drama. I don’t much care for the gore, but I suppose that is just standard for the genre.
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posted on
03/29/2014 12:58:53 PM PDT
by
Flick Lives
("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
To: lee martell
What does TWD indicate? Unless the topic is political or societal, Im usually out of the loop. It's a metaphor for a new type of enemy. Beasts who walk on two legs, but are not subject to human reason, have no idea of mercy, no fear of punishment, and are only interested in killing all who are not like them.
An enemy which cannot be reasoned with, with whom no peace treaties can be made. An enemy who gives you no choice but to have to destroy every single one of them in order for you and your loved ones to be safe.
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posted on
03/29/2014 12:59:50 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: max americana
“TWD honors the zombie persona by actually affirming that they are not diseased/infected humans (World War Z, 28 days later etc)”
I thought earlier in the series, when they stopped by the CDC in Atlanta, the scientist there said it was something in the brain that reanimated them. To my mind, “logical” zombies are impossible because the systems that keep the body “functioning” are shut down. Zombies are supernatural, they have to be.
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posted on
03/29/2014 1:00:01 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
To: lee martell
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....
To: Psalm 144
Ive enjoyed fantasy and horror and gaming for decades, almost my entire life.
Have you heard about the new game coming out this year called Dying Light?
Looks pretty sweet.
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posted on
03/29/2014 1:01:20 PM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
("I said I never had much use for one. Never said I didn't know how to use it." --Quigley)
To: lee martell
To: ctdonath2
Read World War Z. (Book, _not_ movie by same name.)
Brought the zombie genre to a whole new & respectable level.
Agreed.
Listen to the audiobooks in this order: "The Zombie Survival Guide," and "World War Z."
Awesome entertainment!
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posted on
03/29/2014 1:03:26 PM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
("I said I never had much use for one. Never said I didn't know how to use it." --Quigley)
To: lee martell
Just finished watching
Dolls, a classic from the 1980s, when movies were scary and fun at the same time.
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posted on
03/29/2014 1:03:47 PM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: lee martell
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.
To: lee martell
My husband is sitting here watching walking dead taped shows. He was in military then DOD..He says rabies gone wild = zombies. There is actually a zombie preparedness page at the CDC website haha.
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.
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posted on
03/29/2014 1:05:36 PM PDT
by
Linda Frances
(Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.)
To: lee martell
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posted on
03/29/2014 1:11:50 PM PDT
by
InMemoriam
(Have a seat over there, Mr. Mohammed. Aisha, go play on your swingset, honey.)
To: lee martell
Once the rapture happens and God’s Holy Spirit is removed, people will revert to their natural unsaved evil state...
Sad reality, but true...
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posted on
03/29/2014 1:12:35 PM PDT
by
RaceBannon
(Lk 16:31 And he said unto him If they hear not Moses and the prophets neither will theybe persuaded)
To: lee martell
I hear ya,, it was werewolves .. And then all of a sudden,,
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posted on
03/29/2014 1:12:45 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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