I by no means watched The Strolling Lifeless when it first aired, in 2010, as a result of I assumed I didn’t like zombies. Then I had a piece expertise child who was proper about nearly all the pieces, who advised me to look at it. She didn’t even say that, simply that she was unhappy for me that I hadn’t. It seems my first three zombies (Shaun of the Lifeless, Zombies, World Conflict Z) had been simply the incorrect zombies.
So now it’s 2024, I’m the final individual on earth to see The Strolling Lifeless, all I wish to discuss is zombie lore and character arc, and everybody else is over it. How come we haven’t even thrashed out the fundamentals with zombies? Do they like to stay indoors or outdoor? What do they style like? If there may be an inter-zombie solidarity, which there should be if all of them transfer in the identical course, are they unhappy when different zombies die? If zombies can’t die by pure means, they presumably can’t starve; so how come they’re at all times so hungry? If their blood can also be toxic, why isn’t it a much bigger deal when it splashes throughout you? How come they had been extremely troublesome to kill in seasons one via three, after which by season eight you may simply stick a twig of their ear and also you had been golden? Simply how extremely fortunate is Andrew Lincoln?
It’s messing with my peripheral imaginative and prescient, in order that once I stroll previous a skinny individual with an uneven gait, I go searching for one thing sharp. It seems my brother was equally obsessed, however took a distinct course, and for ages, at any time when he arrived anyplace new, began scoping it out for postapocalyptic suitability. However he’s a commonly quick adopter, in order that was years in the past; he can’t bear in mind most of it, simply that he determined someplace in Devon was good for an impartial water provide however much less good for looting, until you had been urgently in want of some antiques. And whereas he’s considerably joyful to debate this and the broader zombie universe, it isn’t all he needs to speak about. So he’s no use to me. Watch issues similtaneously everybody else, is the ethical of this.
Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist
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