I don't think I would've heard of it, if my wonderful husband didn't watch a lot of television, and read Entertainment Weekly magazine. :) The premise seemed interesting initially, but when it turned out that the lack of electricity wasn't caused by massive solar flares or nuclear war or some such, I got a sinking feeling that it would be too implausible for me to buy. Turned out I was right.
Yeah, with TWD, everyone is infected now, so being bitten or not bitten only changes the amount of pain and suffering. At least you can ostensibly live a long and happy life before croaking and then having to be shot through the head. I'm sure that in the coming centuries people will have no idea where the quaint custom of staking the newly dead person through the eye came from.
Personally, I just hate the violence and gore of TWD, not to mention the lack of agency among the female characters and the rather appalling story lines for any people of color.
Of course, even if I loved everything else about it, the illogic of the zombies really annoys me. If they're dead enough to rot, how do they eat? Do they breathe? Though if the virus is moving the bodies, then they'd have to breathe and eat, because otherwise the body would have no energy with which to move. Well, they do eat--ostensibly--but then why are they rotting? And what does it take for the damn things to finally rot enough to no longer be a threat? It's been at least a year, right? Most bodies above ground would have at least exploded and fallen apart after a year, even if there were no animals to tear the corpse apart.
And how can you only be infected by a bite? If it's a virus, then any contamination would be potentially zombifying, yet the heroes get splattered with zombie bits all the time. It just bugs me. :)
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22/10/13 03:38 (UTC)Yeah, with TWD, everyone is infected now, so being bitten or not bitten only changes the amount of pain and suffering. At least you can ostensibly live a long and happy life before croaking and then having to be shot through the head. I'm sure that in the coming centuries people will have no idea where the quaint custom of staking the newly dead person through the eye came from.
Personally, I just hate the violence and gore of TWD, not to mention the lack of agency among the female characters and the rather appalling story lines for any people of color.
Of course, even if I loved everything else about it, the illogic of the zombies really annoys me. If they're dead enough to rot, how do they eat? Do they breathe? Though if the virus is moving the bodies, then they'd have to breathe and eat, because otherwise the body would have no energy with which to move. Well, they do eat--ostensibly--but then why are they rotting? And what does it take for the damn things to finally rot enough to no longer be a threat? It's been at least a year, right? Most bodies above ground would have at least exploded and fallen apart after a year, even if there were no animals to tear the corpse apart.
And how can you only be infected by a bite? If it's a virus, then any contamination would be potentially zombifying, yet the heroes get splattered with zombie bits all the time. It just bugs me. :)