Bamba wrote:
Hearthly wrote:
Piffle! What the fuck are the zombies running on this far into the outbreak? How are they 'surviving' freezing winters and blazing hot summers? What is their fuel?
This does not make sense and has never been explained.
Who gives a fuck? It's also not been explained how
they're coming back from the fucking dead but, weirdly, that doesn't seem to bother you. And it misses the point anyway. If you're going to enjoy a 'trad' zombie story of any kind you need to suspend a lot of disbelief about the set up to be able to buy into the drama that stems from it. If you can't do that then it's not for you, but to look past the most obvious stuff (i.e. that whole pesky 'undead' thing) just to froth over something relatively inconsequential as if that was somehow derailing the bloody impossible fiction of it all's just the bizarre viewpoint.
Zombie stuff isn't (generally) about the zombies and how they function, it's about how the people left alive react to the pressure of the situation.
The coming back from the dead bit I'm fine with, that's the traditional part of the set up, we all buy into that when we watch a zombie film. (Which incidentally, is one of my favourite genres, as my DVD/film collection and watch history on Netflix will bear testament too, it's also why I've, y'know, watched every single minute of all five seasons of The Walking Dead.)
I think they're missing a trick on The Walking Dead, they've got all this time to play with and yet the zombies themselves don't seem to have deteriorated or changed in any sort of way, no one's suggested that there might be an environment or location where humans can survive but the zombies can't, or where they can at least stack the odds in their favour a bit. I mean, they're doing some serious travelling, why do they keep walking along roads from one town to the next, where there will inevitably be zombies in surprisingly good shape wanting to eat them?
I take your point about zombie films not being 'about the zombies', and therein lies the other problem of course, the characters themselves, in the main, aren't massively interesting.
All that said I don't dislike the programme, I'm finding time every week to watch each new episode of Season 5 ASAP, and I binged on the first four seasons on Netflix - but for me it's just started to lose its way somewhat, I just don't really know where it's going, for want of a better way to put it.