Zombie Mania
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I have fun with Zombies about once a year, around this time, and it's usually a rip-roaring good time. I've re-installed L4D2 to play some with my younger brother, and I'm looking forward to the RDRedemption DLC that's got zombies. /shrug, it may just be that it's around halloween, or I like the survival aspect but I enjoy it.
I used to love the Zombie horror subgenre. Actually, I still do, I am just very tired of it these days. Everywhere I look I see more and more zombie movies, books, TV shows. It is getting annoying. I have loved Zombies for years and now I am just another face in the crowd. If you were wondering, yes, I am one of those "I liked them before they were popular" types of people.
Right now, horror as a genre is over exposed. People these days are in love with zombies, vampires and werewolves and yes, I am putting the zombie fanatics in the same boat as the Twilight people. By over exposing these creatures they become something of a joke, when they should be feared.
Short answer: I have a love/hate relationship with Zombies right now.
Right now, horror as a genre is over exposed. People these days are in love with zombies, vampires and werewolves and yes, I am putting the zombie fanatics in the same boat as the Twilight people. By over exposing these creatures they become something of a joke, when they should be feared.
Short answer: I have a love/hate relationship with Zombies right now.
I am getting tired of people doing zombies WRONG. I mean, slow, shoot them in the head, not intelligent. How do they screw this up?rockyoumonkeys said:
Next thing you know, people will start messing up vampir...no, no wait...
Same here. Though I really like the concept, I do wish there wasn't such a weird craze about them.rockyoumonkeys said:
Not like right down to your street address no. But I'm guessing that location matters quite a bit as to which books our respective bookstores get. Living in Washington State where that Twilight crap is set I would think we would tend to get more of that vampire based shit than somewhere else.rockyoumonkeys said:
As far as the books I'm referring to being Gothic romance and having nothing to do with vampires, just out of curiosity a while back I scanned the backs of a few of them and I'll be damned if most of them didn't say something along the lines of "What she didn't know was that Character X was a vampire". The sad part is that our bookstore doesn't tend to keep that garbage confined to one part of the store, it's spread almost everywhere except the nonfiction sections.
My personal favorite for comedic value was seeing one of these books that was about a chick falling in love with a guy who was a werewolf during the Zombie Apocalypse.
i definitely don't see a saturation, but if you know where to look in any book store you fill find a shit load of something. i mean you can walk into a chapters and complain about any genre or sub genre if you walk down the right aisle.
This series looks interesting. I'll keep an eye out for it when it starts airing, see if its worth watching.
I don't have quite the zombie mania that I use to but I still like zombie stories though. Read through the Zombie Survival Guide, own World War Z, have a the book The Living Dead which is a collection of zombie short stories. In fact I'm just about to get The Sacrifice for L4D2.
I don't have quite the zombie mania that I use to but I still like zombie stories though. Read through the Zombie Survival Guide, own World War Z, have a the book The Living Dead which is a collection of zombie short stories. In fact I'm just about to get The Sacrifice for L4D2.
I'm hesitant over "The Walking Dead", for one tiny little irrational thing, that Rick Grimes is depicted with a big silver revolver, instead of a standard issue police beretta or whatever. It's just Rick Grimes is badass and a great character, but largely he grew to be the huge badass he is over the course of the apocalypse. At the start of the infection he was just an ordinary small town cop who'd only fired his gun in the line of duty once. I want to see him become the person he is at issue 77, not start out as some Clint Eastwood wannabe cowboy cop.
This is true for most of the characters, they become badass rather than start out as one (aside from Michonne but she was surviving alone for months and a very good fencer prior to apocalypse).
This is true for most of the characters, they become badass rather than start out as one (aside from Michonne but she was surviving alone for months and a very good fencer prior to apocalypse).