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As a fan of the original zombie flick, Night of the living dead, I have to ask this. Haven't zombies jumped the shark? Seems like every time I turn around I'm tripping over a new video game or movie or show that all about fighting zombies or humanity's last stand against the undead horde and i just want to puke! It's poor writing that can't produce an innovative monster and zombies are the poorest of poor writing. It's recycled like so much wood pulp.
From a scientific stand point zombies are laughable, I mean really think about what happens to dead meat in the sun. It rots. If meat gets to cold? It freezes solid. So there would be a little 'goldielocks zone' where it was warm enough for them to move and yet cold enough for them to not rot away... That's almost as far a stretch to believe as the zombies themselves.

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I don't like zombies.

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No more so than vampires and werewolves.

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Why does something have to be 100% believable to be enjoyable? Are you really that dull?

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I dunno, I think zombies are terribly cool, much more terrifying than vampires or werewolves or aliens or giant bug monsters because these things feel no pain because they aren't alive. They don't need to sleep or stop or rest or anything, so they can keep coming at you even after you're already worn down and exhausted. Nothing short of decapitation, trauma to the brain or removing all of its limbs will stop it, and even then if the brain is still intact, it's still going to try and go after you. That sort of single-mindedness of purpose is terrifying to me. Something that can be shot through the stomach multiple times and still come back for more is horrifying for me.

And I mean, scientifically speaking, they're just as likely as vampires or werewolves or any other mythos you want to pick. And you're ignoring virus-zombies, insofar as they can be considered zombies-- they're a hell of a lot more likely scientifically, too, assuming oxygen intake and heart-beating weren't affected. All it would take is a very crafty mad scientist with some prions or something and a little bit of time. I mean, there are gypsy moth caterpillars who, if infected with baculovirus, are inexorably drawn to the treetops during the day, where they die, liquefy, and are washed down from the canopy onto their fellow caterpillars below to spread the virus, or the virus makes them become easy prey for birds, so that the birds can spread the virus, too. There's a fungus that affects ants, makes them compelled to leave their hill and go die somewhere where the fungus is better-suited to growing. Toxoplasmosis makes rats drawn to cats, so that the cats will consume them. It happens already, simple viruses and foreign agents controlling the mind of the hosts to spread a disease. Why do we sneeze and why do our noses run when we have a cold? To spread the disease. If we had a virus which zombified its victims for the purpose of spreading the virus through bites, it's at least a little plausible.

I'll admit, as far as bad writing goes, zombies seem to suffer a fair bit of it. But I've read a few fantastic zombie books in the past little while (a couple truly s**t ones, no doubt, ******** recycled drivel which bring nothing new to the table other than flat characters and terrible settings) but I mean-- Dead of Night by Jonathan Maberry gave me chills and paranoia in my own house. World War Z by Max Brooks was ten different kinds of fantastic. If you're thinking of like, Dead Island, there isn't a thing about that game that wasn't bad or at least mediocre, zombies or no zombies (what a s**t game, good lord).
But I think every mythology has its gems and its never-should-have-existed poorly-thought-out faults.

New monsters, well... I haven't seen anything much that's awfully new lately, across the board. Rehashes of old songs, remakes of older movies, retelling of old stories. Feels like human creativity has bottomed out no matter what you're into.

also you can't tell me the current interest in zombies is worse than the vampire craze of the past few years. You can't. I will not hear of it.
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Why does something have to be 100% believable to be enjoyable? Are you really that dull?
True this. I think someone had Santa ruined early for them....

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As a fan of the original zombie flick, Night of the living dead, I have to ask this. Haven't zombies jumped the shark? Seems like every time I turn around I'm tripping over a new video game or movie or show that all about fighting zombies or humanity's last stand against the undead horde and i just want to puke! It's poor writing that can't produce an innovative monster and zombies are the poorest of poor writing. It's recycled like so much wood pulp.
From a scientific stand point zombies are laughable, I mean really think about what happens to dead meat in the sun. It rots. If meat gets to cold? It freezes solid. So there would be a little 'goldielocks zone' where it was warm enough for them to move and yet cold enough for them to not rot away... That's almost as far a stretch to believe as the zombies themselves.



Well, you claim zombies are "dead" so to speak and Stephen Meyers killed vampires for this generation all in four foul books!!! But to tell truth, the best ideas for a story have been taken, best themes, best characters, best fears, best plots, all that. Some may try to be original and not even get looked at, some may have something familar and get someone to see but no one to vote for it. Truely, its how the person uses the characters in his/her story that makes it theres. Also, in a scientific stance, you're off by a point, you see, zombies might be the livivng dead, and yes tehy will rot eventually, but tehy do move, alot and they eat alot. And even if you're feeding the corpse, fact of the matter is, you're more likely to die before the zombie rots, or freezes. Oh, P.s. if you dont like the show, dont watch it, post about it, or even refrain to it. Because as long as zombies dont sparkle, they're alright in my book

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Not zombies, but saying "pass'e" is pretty pass'e.

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Why does something have to be 100% believable to be enjoyable? Are you really that dull?

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