The Last of Us’ is a zombie show, based on a video game,  and its creators are ashamed of both of these facts.

If vampires in Dracula, Twilight, Blade, True Blood, Buffy, or Anne Rice novels are all still understood as vampires, then yeah these are zombies. Whether or not the lore anchors its explanation in something “scientific” truly doesn’t matter. They’re still zombies.

It’s a zombie show like 28 Days Later was a zombie movie, and so was Pontypool and so was [Rec], it’s just using different nomenclature that’s all.

Technically, it’s only a zombie if it comes from the Zombie region of France. Otherwise it’s just a sparkling revenant.

There wasn’t a single infected seen in the episode, something else The Walking Dead never did (every episode had at least one walker in it).

This was already a clear case of starfucking prosecutorial overreach (in this case star-fucking-over), but the fact that the DA did not know what laws were on the books at the time of the crime is really grounds for removal from office.

Day of the Dead really doesn’t get ripped off enough. I don’t know if this would be too huge of a departure from the games, but I’d like to see a Bub-like specimen who has partially regained autonomy from the Cordyceps fungus after a lot of experiments and treatments. Sam’s question of “if you become a monster, is it…

I’ve already wrote about my disagreement with charging Baldwin at all, so I’ll skip that this time around and get right to the question at hand... why are Baldwin and the armorer being charged with the same charges? She was clearly the person whose own ineptitude and admission placed her at fault.

TLoU is doing zombies-with-a-twist the same way 28 Days/Weeks Later was doing zombies-with-a-twist. The Rage virus was a fun variation on the Romero zombie rules because it introduced a vaguely scientifically plausible explanation for the phenomenon, and the virus conceit also allowed for tweaks to the rules, like…

Yes, it’s a zombie show. Hope this helps.

I know you are joking. but in 1963, “zombie” still just meant somebody under a spell in Haitian folklore. The modern idea of a zombie (as a mindless former human that attacks humans in an animalistic fashion) originated later as a fan-nickname for the creatures in George Romero’s films (starting in the late 1960s),…

The iZombie zombies were much more like vampires.  They just ate instead of drank.

It really was. But the final straw for me with TWD was when Tyreese was killed by a lone zombie. I realized that the zombies were only as dangerous as the plot needed to be when the 250 pound guy, who at any other point in the season could fight off multiple zombies, gets pinned and bitten by a 150 pound decaying…

Isn’t this just “prestige horror” all over again?

Actors are not firearms experts, and shouldn’t have to be. That’s why professionally trained armorers are hired to make all weapons safe for the actors. Any firearm mishap on set falls squarely on the armorer’s lack of professionalism. The increasingly bellicose statements, and wildly aggressive overcharges, from the…

“The Last Of Us sets itself apart from the zombie genre in many ways...”

George Romero’s classic zombie trilogy has always been about “who is the real monster?”. It’s a boring debate but yes TLOU is following the proud tradition of being a piece of zombie media that isn’t really about zombies. 

Say it with me now:

It. Doesnt. Fucking. Matter.

Yeah no they’re zombies Druckmann. A zombie isn’t a just brand of fantastical monster, it’s a mindless husk of a human lumbering around and responding to animalistic urges. I don’t care that they aren’t pop cultures familiar zombies they’re still the lumbering around mindless monsters. I know this is a crappy example…

I find the avoidance of the word “zombie” kind of pretentious. Embracing the genre and the tropes doesn’t preclude you from doing something unique (which to the show and game’s credit is exactly what they’re doing)

But avoiding the term and any zombie-related label just smacks of posturing to me. And it feels like by…