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That's one of the reasons why I appreciated them spending so much time on the legless zombie in the first episode, because that clued us in that the Rules Are Different.
I suppose in the Walking Deadverse, 'zombies' are an obscure legend of Haitian voodoo lore that nobody is going to think of to label their geeks with.
It's weird, right?
Isn't that traditional? Most of the zombie movies (and comics & books) I've seen avoid having characters use the word. At the moment the exceptions I can think of veer toward comedy.
Maybe it's because they're a modern monster... I think it's problematic for the characters to live in a world with zombie stories. It'd make everything they do or say into an evaluation of their taste in zombie media, which: barf.
They've been in pop culture for almost a century, though. Maybe it's being PC?
28 Days Later? Not zombies. Reanimated corpses--zombies.
THANK YOU.
I did go to a "science of zombies" panel with a neurologist, a mathematician specializing in virus outbreaks (specifically HIV), George Romero, and Max Brooks. They talked about zombie biology and how it would all work, and what the infection rate would be. Was pretty neat.
I am so envious of you getting to go to that panel.
Isn't that traditional?
It is. It bugs me. Is this common in vampire film?
I don't think the Zombieland zombies were the dead, either. It was a virus that bloated your brain, made you mad and hungry.
Is this common in vampire film?
You are the undead that drinks my blood...you are a...I don't know.
No, I think all the vampire movies and TV I've seen is very quick to slap that label on. Mummies get called mummies. I don't know why zombies are so special. Maybe because so few stories are actually reanimating the dead? But even those...
Is this common in vampire film?
Nope. Vampires get called vampires. I'm still not sure why reanimated corpses don't get called zombies more often.
It'd make everything they do or say into an evaluation of their taste in zombie media, which: barf.
It doesn't really have to be, though. Garlic, crosses, silver, stakes through the heart, all that vampire lore is somehow dealt with in each new media representation of vampires.
Garlic, crosses, silver, stakes through the heart, all that vampire lore is somehow dealt with in each new media representation of vampires.
And often thrown out. Not sure why zombies are holy ground.
I think it's that I can't help but roll my eyes at this point. "Shoot em' in the head" is almost as common as "stake in the heart" in pop culture.
If it's trying to make out with you while biting into your neck, it's a vampire.
If it doesn't try to make out with you first, it's a zombie. Let's go with it people, it's 2010.