1. Zombies cannot climb fences or ladders and they definitely cannot pick up a rock and use it to break glass. They have no logic. They can shamble, grunt and eat. THAT'S IT. They lack the motor skills for anything else. I do give them credit for choosing slow zombies though. I would've stopped watching if they were fast zombies.
2. This show is a montage of all previous zombie movies minus the whole, "let me lick your stomach then we can have sex in the woods" scene. But whatever. That scene doesn't matter right now. BUT, they have the racial tension (specifically black guy/white guy, like night of the living dead), the people stuck in a store (dawn of the dead), the person that just happens to know something obscure, like the way that pipes run under the city, and thinking that getting a big truck (dawn of the dead) is going to solve all their problems.
There were some pretty cool newer things though. There was a scene where the cop was chopping up a zom zom and putting it's blood and guts all over him so that him and the other guy smell like one of the zoms and therefore can walk around them without being eaten... WHICH AGAIN CLEARLY SHOWS THEY DON'T HAVE THE NECESSARY LOGIC TO BE ABLE TO USE A ROCK TO BREAK A WINDOW.
They also somehow got away with saying the n-word on national TV. The FCC is probably shitting itself. My jaw honestly dropped when they said it, and it takes a lot to surprise me when it comes to TV.
They also made the show pretty graphic. There's lots of blood and guts, head-shots, they showed some intestines today and a zom getting his cheek slashed so that teeth were exposed. Pretty awesome makeup.
3. Women are still totally subordinate. Can't we have one badass that doesn't have to be having sex all the time? Just one. Even the blond woman that puts the gun in the cop's face is shown later to be admiring jewelry and she's trying to figure out if taking is looting or not. Seriously. There's fucking zombies. Take whatever the hell you want.
I'll still watch it because I want to know where it's going to go. The random people in the woods storyline is kind of goofy though. I know it will all eventually connect, but I'm getting a little impatient, especially because the people in the woods are almost an afterthought. I don't know their significance at all.
...One cool thing I found out is that Norman Reedus, AKA the cuter brother from Boondock Saints is in four episodes of the series, AND he looks really good with a big gun. He's on the left in this picture.
You know what? I'm going to write a zombie story, the way zombie stories should be written, without climbing and fast zombies.
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