Would you know what to do if the zombies attacked?

[nx1701g]

Well now, it depends. Are these Ob's brethren? If so, there is not a damn thing we can do, may as well give yourself up. Cuz within 30 days, Earth is gone.

I hated that novel. There was no way to survive because literally every living thing became a zombie. Then if you managed to kill a zombie that particular zombie was dead, but all its knowledge awoke in another body and it just kept going.

If it's slow, dumb, Living Dead style, they can be taken out with a pool cue. Not really much to fear there.

It always amazes me how much hate, any more, there is for Romero's classic zombies. To me they've always been more frightening than the fast zombies of the remakes. The slow zombies were more frightening from my perspective because they were able to just blend into the background. The fast zombies just swarmed you and you usually could see (or hear) them coming. The older ones were harder.

 

[JuanBolio]

Slow zombies - I'd go out and fight.

Fast zombies - Hole up and fight.

 

[ITL]

Well now, it depends. Are these Ob's brethren? If so, there is not a damn thing we can do, may as well give yourself up. Cuz within 30 days, Earth is gone.

I hated that novel. There was no way to survive because literally every living thing became a zombie. Then if you managed to kill a zombie that particular zombie was dead, but all its knowledge awoke in another body and it just kept going.

If it's slow, dumb, Living Dead style, they can be taken out with a pool cue. Not really much to fear there.

It always amazes me how much hate, any more, there is for Romero's classic zombies. To me they've always been more frightening than the fast zombies of the remakes. The slow zombies were more frightening from my perspective because they were able to just blend into the background. The fast zombies just swarmed you and you usually could see (or hear) them coming. The older ones were harder.

Then you may like to read Simon Pegg's review of Dead Set...

Here's a wee tasty:

As monsters from the id, zombies win out over vampires and werewolves when it comes to the title of Most Potent Metaphorical Monster. Where their pointy-toothed cousins are all about sex and bestial savagery, the zombie trumps all by personifying our deepest fear: death. Zombies are our destiny writ large. Slow and steady in their approach, weak, clumsy, often absurd, the zombie relentlessly closes in, unstoppable, intractable.

However (and herein lies the sublime artfulness of the slow zombie), their ineptitude actually makes them avoidable, at least for a while. If you're careful, if you keep your wits about you, you can stave them off, even outstrip them - much as we strive to outstrip death. Drink less, cut out red meat, exercise, practice safe sex; these are our shotguns, our cricket bats, our farmhouses, our shopping malls. However, none of these things fully insulates us from the creeping dread that something so witless, so elemental may yet catch us unawares - the drunk driver, the cancer sleeping in the double helix, the legless ghoul dragging itself through the darkness towards our ankles.

 

[Lindley]

Head for Alaska. Except by plane, not car.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nddzf7kzjhI[/yt]

 

[nx1701g]

Head for Alaska. Except by plane, not car.

That's what they did in Resident Evil: Extinction...

 

[Nardpuncher]

Fuck all zombie movies.

That includes all the ones that try to be 'scientific' by making it a mutated virus.

 

[Candlelight]

This is all publicity for Colin.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

Yeah I am pretty sure I'd know how to die and get eaten.

Hey what can I say. I am the kind of guy who if the world's future is in my hands? You're all f****d

 

[Aragorn]

Believe it or not, Morgan Webb actually did a story for G4 Underground about a group of people who have prepared themselves in case of the zombie apocalypse, which is what they actually called it. Here's a clip on YouTube. Here's the commercial preview.

But if it actually happens, I'm prepared -- slow zombies, fast zombies, doesn't matter. I've played Left 4 Dead. I know that when the zombies attack, there will be piles of ammunition all over the place that will fit into any gun I've got.

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

Yup. My friends and I have a pretty good plan to turn the local grocery store we work at into a well fortified place that we can easily hold out in until rescue comes.

 

[Aragorn]

I'm actually a werewolf and my girlfriend is a vampire. Anyone know what would happen if a zombie bit either of us?

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

^Well, I can only assume that you would become a zombie werewolf. Your girlfriend, being already undead, would probably not be affected.

 

[Skywalker]

I'm actually a werewolf and my girlfriend is a vampire.

How would you like your own show on the CW?

 

[Aragorn]

I'm actually a werewolf and my girlfriend is a vampire.

How would you like your own show on the CW?

Dawn Ostroff actually rejected our TV series pitch. She said it would be too difficult to put in songs of hip new young artists on a constant basis, and she was confused by the concept of multiple-episode story arcs. She also thought that introducing a small element in one episode and expanding on it in another would cause too much brain stress for the viewer to handle. But what sealed our fate was how Ostroff wanted to cast our friends -- she though Patrick Muldoon would make a great Santiago and Sara Paxton would be a perfect Watanabe.

 

[ITL]

What I want to know is...

When a person gets Caught By The Zombies, why is their fate (Getting Ripped Apart And Eated On The Spot or Getting Turned Into A Zombie To Swell The Numbers) seemingly not reliant on the amount of zombies present or their viciousness as they attack?

 

[SilentP]

Easy, convert a nuclear powered aircraft carrier into a floating community. Ditch all the planes, keep some of the helicopters. Convert the majority of the top deck to a field for growing whatever crops you deem necessary (i.e. build a metre or so high metal 'wall' around the deck perimeter to keep soil in), and the internal hanger bay into a livestock pen, occasionally bringing up the different animals up to the top deck every once in a while for sunlight and the like. Stock as many medicines and the like possible, using the choppers manned by scavenger teams to go back to land to forage for special supplies, growing what you can on the ship. Park the ship a few miles off the coast, in deep water. Sorted.

 

[Greg Cox]

If DAY OF THE DEAD or 28 DAYS LATER are to be believed, stay away from any fortified military compounds. It's tempting, but you'll regret it when the heavily-armed soldiers start losing their cool . . .

 

[SeerSGB]

See Zombies are why we need to take the ideals of Jurassic Park and merge them with the those of the Japanese and breed: Godzilla. Fry the undead bastards with atomic fire breath.

All though if he gets infected, then we'd have Zombia Godzilla to deal with, hmmm.

Easy, convert a nuclear powered aircraft carrier into a floating community. Ditch all the planes, keep some of the helicopters. Convert the majority of the top deck to a field for growing whatever crops you deem necessary (i.e. build a metre or so high metal 'wall' around the deck perimeter to keep soil in), and the internal hanger bay into a livestock pen, occasionally bringing up the different animals up to the top deck every once in a while for sunlight and the like. Stock as many medicines and the like possible, using the choppers manned by scavenger teams to go back to land to forage for special supplies, growing what you can on the ship. Park the ship a few miles off the coast, in deep water. Sorted.

Not a bad ideal on the surface, but what's the operational life of a carriers reactors? [aside: I use to know that]. For that matter what are you going to do for parts, repairs, and fuel?

 

[Strider]

I'd just try to get out of the way. You gotta figure that every nut with a shotgun or some dumbass ninja sword would be out in the streets trying to get in the action. The zombie apocalypse would be over in about a minute.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Not a bad ideal on the surface, but what's the operational life of a carriers reactors? [aside: I use to know that]. For that matter what are you going to do for parts, repairs, and fuel?

The carrier would be parked, so copter fuel and eventually the nuclear reactor would be concern. Eventually the copter fuel sources would deplete unless he took over a refinery and oil wells on land (or offshore?), then he'd have to rely on smaller boats for mainland excursions.

But it would turn to shit when some idiot gets bitten and doesn't report it, then suddenly zombies on the carrier.