In terms of Nightstalker - It was good and often funny. And Kolchak was both a crank and smart and had a big heart. He also was a lying liar who lies. But while it had had some stuff in common with the shows that followed, I'm not sure I'd describe it as a prot-buffy or proto-x-files or proto-supernatural. It had a nice consistent Noir style that none of them had. It was quite a good show, but it own thing, and Buffy, x-files had and supernatural has lots of good stuff that the Nightstalker did not have. NOt saying there may not have been influence. (Note:*may*) If you have not watched what few episodes of the nightstalker exist it is worth watching. Except the zombie episode was extremely problematic, so skip that one. But other than that, really good . But not the essence or whatever of any of the shows mentioned.
'Potential'
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What is "problematic" about the zombies? That's such a loaded term in fandom discourse these days.
Er while maybe it is just me, but in the zombie episode the zombie was a dead black man who could ultimately be stopped only by hanging him. Given the history of lynching in the U.S. that bothers me. Especially since I'm pretty sure that was the writer's invention. Is there actual Zombie lore where hanging is a way to kill a zombie?
I have no idea if it's just you--like I said, I've never watched the show, so how could I have a clue?
I've always heard fill the mouth with salt and stitch it up. Hanging does seem to be a singularly unfortunate and symbolism-charged choice of destruction method, if it wasn't intentional.
I only know how to kill movie zombies, which involves fucking with the brain/brain stem in some way--head shot, decapitation, other gestures of that ilk.
I don't know what lore suggests.
The questin about zombie lore was rhetorical. Bascially I don't think there was a good reason for the choice.
Pre-romero movie lore had a number of ways of killing zombine, as Matt say decpitation and filling the mouth with salt. Also sliver bullets. I'm pretty sure the silver bullets at least were just made up/stolen from werewolf movies.
We are catching up on The Walking Dead, and I am already spoiled (husband is not), but I cannot BELIEVE how shitty the gender roles are on this show. They actually had someone argue that they should leave the menfolk to the fighting, and the women should just be doing the cooking and cleaning.
right? between that and T-Dog they really have hit almost all of the stereotypes.
all they need is a homicidal gay man and trifecta.