Too much seriousness, eh? Living is serious business, we all tend to take it much to lightly if you ask me.
Well, you ask, and you shall be rewarded.
Tonight, Halloween, is the premier of "The Walking Dead" on AMC. I thought that stood for "American Movie Classics" but I may be mistaken. Well the first episode was fairly good, but before we talk about it much let's try and catch some more internet search results. Sex, Justin Beiber (sucks), Hallie Berry topless in Swordfish (not worth watching the rest of the movie). Well that's covered then.
It kind of started all 28-Days Later style, with our main character waking up in the hospital and the zombie outbreak already past its peak. I was a little disappointed there, I was hoping for some more short-term outbreak survival scenes. That's where the real excitement is. I do love the fact that this is going to be a series though; the long-term survival techniques are what define the action heroes from the real survivors. The zombies looked... cool. Very dead. Some of the prosthetic death was somewhat sub-par but the violence was graphic excellence. As a show, I liked it.
As a survival aid, it's instruction by error and example.
Things he did right:
- He killed most of the zombies he saw, but tried not to attract unnecessary zombie attention. This is common sense.
- He got a sack full of guns and the ammunition to go with them.
- He helped living people.
Things he did wrong, this will be a longer list.
- Most obvious was his entry into Atlanta. If you are ever in that situation, and you see a whole bunch of empty cars pointed away from a city and none pointed towards it... well, it seems like a whole lot of people wanted to leave, and not all of them were able to. Maybe, just maybe, you yourself should reconsider your intention to enter the city yourself. Just a thought.
- Failure of logic. Before he even decided to go to Atlanta, he knew that the transmissions from the refugee shelter had stopped weeks ago. So... maybe the refugees aren't there anymore, or something happened?
- Riding a horse into a potential death trap. Sure, the horse doesn't need gas, but it does need food. You, the human can't eat gas, but you could eat the horse food; even if it's just grass, that's grass you could be reduced to eating yourself. More importantly, you could eat the horse. That horse was completely wasted. Where did he get it, anyway? I don't think there's any rural areas like that one within a partial day's ride of Atlanta. It's Georgia, not Saskatchewan. I suppose I can give that fact the benefit of the doubt I suppose; it doesn't matter as far as survival goes, just a minor plot convenience.
Let's just throw his whole Atlanta visit in this category. He did nothing right at all that whole time. It's kind of surprising, since he seemed to show some minor common sense up to that point.
And now for something completely different. A man with a tape recorder up his nose.
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| It makes more sense with sound. |
In other Zombie news, NPR has a list of 8 Things you Need to Know. It also mentions The Walking Dead, so it's not completely different at all I guess, except that this list won't save a single life. "A metaphor for consumption" indeed. Still, I like NPR well enough; Wait Wait Don't Tell Me is my favorite radio show, narrowly beating out the only other radio show I listen to, Car Talk, which comes on just before Wait Wait. They may not believe in the possible eventual reality of a Zombie Apocalypse, but they're adding to the general familiarity which is both helpful and dangerous - if you're too comfortable with zombies, you might not react the right way if you see a real one.
Hope you enjoyed your Halloween, regular posts will resume as usual.
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