Zombie Questions

camplittlewolf:

andytwood:

In fact, in a lot of zombie movies, hordes of completely intact zombies crowd around a living person and devour him entirely, with entrails flying everywhere. How did those dudes become zombies? And what of the guy they’re all eating? Do his scraps turn into a bunch of tiny zombies?

How about I was just thinking the exact same thing last night. How are new zombies made if they just eat the shit out of every human they come across? (Although I admittedly love the idea of tiny zombies being formed out of pieces of guts, like in Gremlins.)

Lindsey started watching The Walking Dead while I was out of town and a new episode was on last night and I was like, “oh, so we’re watching this now?” I was about to leave to run an errand but the first couple of minutes were interesting so I got sucked in but since I’d missed the first 8 episodes all I saw were people I didn’t know anything about being chased around by zombies. “Wait, is this based on actual events?” “Who is that guy?” “What did that guy do when I asked ‘who is that guy’?” I had QUESTIONS.

I needed a primer on what zombies can and can’t do, like a zombie FAQ. (We had the same conversation about vampires when we started watching True Blood because it seems like the rules are always changing and they can do things sometimes but not other times and it becomes very frustrating after a while.) Besides brains and human flesh (because let’s face it, those are extremely delicious), do zombies eat anything else? Like livestock? Can they starve? Are they ever really sated? How soon before you get bitten by a zombie do you become one? Why can’t zombies climb things? Are they always so slow or can they pick up the pace? How do zombies know you aren’t a zombie? Do zombies always travel in packs? I wasn’t expecting Lindsey to be a zombie authority but she did a pretty good job of filling in the blanks for me.

But then I had OTHER questions, like, WHY ARE THERE SO MANY GODDAMN ZOMBIES ANYWAY? IS THE WHOLE WORLD JUST ZOMBIES NOW? And apparently the show hasn’t answered those. Also, there’s no Internet for finding where zombie-free areas are, but they have electricity and hot water? I can suspend my disbelief and go with the whole zombie thing but a world without cell phones or Internet? COME ON. (Apologies if they addressed this in episodes 1-8.)

Zut and I just last night were talking about what I’d do if there was a zombie invasion. The first thing I said was that I’d get a sword. Then I went on and on about the specifics of everything because what I’d do was HIGHLY dependant on the type of zombies that existed.