MaliA wrote:
I think [WWZ] could have done with better editing. I think we've got two copies in the house, at present, for some reason. The Zombie Survival Guide was quite good, up until the end, with teh accounts. Then it lost the spark of inventiveness that made it so funny.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed it, but there was something missing from it. I can’t really put my finger on what, though. I think he lost interest about half way through, and it got a tiny bit
deus ex machina towards the end, from memory. I also didn’t quite think some of the logistics stacked up, but there we are.
That said, there were some excellent ideas in there – the whole bits around the frozen north and zombies coming out of the sea were quite original (at least to me, they may have cropped up in minor works in the collected zombological library)
I haven’t read TZSG, but will be picking it up at some point, I think.
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Granted, running is locomotively more tricky that walking, but a zombie should be able to maintain a brisk walk up until such a point as the damage it gets from falling over means it cannot move its limbs at such a frequency any more.
I really can’t see why, from a biomechanical point of view, it wouldn’t also retain its speed, at least initially, as you say. Also, of course, if one postulates that it loses its speed due to deterioration of the body, then it would also, presumably, lose strength as well, unless something other than simple mechanics of muscle tissue is granting them their strength, and then you’re into the world of the zombies being caused by something related to the afterlife or some other such mumbo jumbo, which is shit. Zombies are caused by viruses, full stop. I can happily go along with the idea of infected carriers who don’t display symptoms until they die, but corpses coming back from the dead because hell’s full is just silly, and also wouldn’t explain why they then infect people they bite.
The worst sort of idiocy is when the two get mixed up,
a la Resident Evil, Apocalypse, where you have regular zombies caused by the t virus, but then also, inexplicably, a load of long-dead, buried corpses coming out of their graves. WTF is that about? At least stay logically consistent.
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Mr Kissyfur wrote:
Also, and I hate to break out the big guns here, Romero says so.
I'm really fucking pleased I didn't grow up with him. "The instructions on the LEGO say it makes a fire engine. NOT A FUCKING ROBOT". He's killing creative play.
Heh. I was of course being tongue in cheek there. Although there is a strong resistance to the idea of running zombies – I think Simon Pegg even wrote an article about it in the Guardian.
EDIT @docG - psych!
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I'm pleased that we live in such an age where we can have a rational discussion about the ambulatory prowess of the undead without fear of ridicule.
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