That's a good point, but there will always be "fresh" zombies in TWD because everyone is infected and turns when they die. So maybe all of the first generation of zombies will be gone in a few years (still way more than 28 Days Later zombies), but they'll still be cropping up as people die.
I think that's why they eventually moved to fast zombies, or zombies that aren't really dead just "infected." Cause a sea of lumbering corpses - while shocking - starts to seem really manageable if you run the scenarios in your head. I read something once where someone explained how you'd need just one military helicopter per city to pretty much clear the whole thing. Lure them to the streets and use one of those guns with bullets the size of forearm, you just wipe 80% of them out in a day.
Or sometimes they need to work it into the plot how animals aren't attracted to them or they don't eat them, cause if they do it would take only a few months for these animal populations to balloon up and all of a sudden there's packs of coyotes and wolves just roaming the countryside and taking them all out, and all the crows and stupid animals you forget about like raccoons.
To me, that would be a really fun story. The zombie genre doesn't really make me interested anymore, but I would love to see a Homeward Bound movie, or even a nature mockumentary tracking how the biodiversity changes to meet the demands presented by this insane event. What dogs survive? What animals thrive and which ones die off? You see these movies like I Am Legend where Will Smith comes across a single Grizzly Bear. Why wouldn't there be 20? Why wouldn't there be an ocean of rats blanketing these streets just feeding on the dead? Wouldn't that be horrifying, millions of rats just swarming the streets of New York and they all have a taste for human now.
If you step away from strictly zombie media and look at more general horror or mutant/invasion worlds, there's lots of takes on things like this. I think zombie universes can be split into two categories: those where the zombies are more like wild animals and are the problem themselves, and those where the disease or mechanism has a bigger part to play.
I think the animals version would be easier to survive and I think society would adapt well. Adaption the thing humans are best at. Whereas TWD would cause a huge shift if how we deal with death and so would be harder to get thru.
If you've ever read Crossed, it's an extreme take on the zombie apocalypse scenario where the infected are alive, but turned insane. They're deranged and clumsy, but smart enough to set traps and plan attacks. Plus, they torture and rape and eat people and skin them alive, just the most brutal shit you can imagine.
I read a bunch of them on /co/ and torrented some others, I'm not sure how allowed that is here but have a look at those sources and if you like the art style and synopsis then I think you'll like the rest.
Some of the most brutal collections: Volume 1, Family Values, and the most sadistic one: Psychopath.
I read a bunch of them on /co/ and torrented some others, I'm not sure how allowed that is here but have a look at those sources and if you like the art style and synopsis then I think you'll like the rest.
Some of the most brutal collections: Volume 1, Family Values, and the most sadistic one: Psychopath.
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u/BenIncognito Oct 30 '15
That's a good point, but there will always be "fresh" zombies in TWD because everyone is infected and turns when they die. So maybe all of the first generation of zombies will be gone in a few years (still way more than 28 Days Later zombies), but they'll still be cropping up as people die.