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This reads like the prelude to 90% of all zombie movies - cheating death by injecting virusses, starting in the UK. It even includes a fever and neurotoxicity a
by sapilla 7y ago
This reads like the prelude to 90% of all zombie movies - cheating death by injecting virusses, starting in the UK. It even includes a fever and neurotoxicity as side effects.
- ImaCake 7y agoThey also use a HIV like virus as the vector to modify the T-Cells in the first place!
- isp 7y agoRelevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/938/ https://xkcd.com/938/
- trampypizza 7y agoI thought it sounded a bit like one of the Witcher trials.
- WalterBright 7y agoI wouldn't worry about zombies. They violate conservation of energy laws, for one.
- cdmckay 7y agoAlso, how do they move if their muscles have rotted away and they have no functioning circulatory system?
- WalterBright 7y agoYup. Turns out, the organs in the body have a purpose, and without them the body can't work :-) I.e. zombies are magical creatures, even less plausible than godzilla. I also curmudgeonly think that Game of Thrones lost its appeal when it stopped being about political intrigue and became yet another silly magical zombie movie.
- DennisP 7y agoZombies aren't the only magic in Game of Thrones. They're fantasy novels. If it weren't for the zombies, the political story would just be about people fighting each other for advantage. The zombies add a tension between that and a common cause, since the threat faces them all; much like the world we live in today.
- SketchySeaBeast 7y agoI'm guessing they didn't stick around for the dragons.
- WalterBright 7y agoThe political intrigue was interesting. The zombie apocalypse was a singular lack of imagination - how many zombie movies has Hollywood produced? 200? 300? There are even multiple miniseries about zombies. There's simply nothing interesting about them. Even Lord of the Rings just had to bring in a zombie army at the end, but fortunately didn't spend much screen time on it. The only one I like was the Jason and the Argonauts one where the hero fights a group of skeletons. The herky-jerky Harry Harrison animation is a pleasure to watch. And it was original.
- DennisP 7y agoThe "zombie army" in Lord of the Rings was in the book Return of the King, published in 1955. The first big, modern zombie movie was Night of the Living Dead in 1968. So I don't think you can blame them for being unoriginal. Also I'd say they were more ghost than zombie, in both book and movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYEvmnTghPk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYEvmnTghPk (As for GoT, how many movies have had dragons?)
- SketchySeaBeast 7y ago> I also curmudgeonly think that Game of Thrones lost its appeal when it stopped being about political intrigue and became yet another silly magical zombie movie. So the very first scene of both the books and tv show?
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- dhimes 7y agoThey violate conservation of energy laws Now I'm even more worried! How can the do that?
- kennyloginNTH 7y agoBig oil killing zombie legalization
- sapilla 7y agoWhere do zombies violate conservation of energy? They do wear down eventually, and fresh brains are low entropy and also nutrient dense.
- WalterBright 7y agoThey never starve to death, or even weaken. They're not impaired by not having a stomach or a circulatory system to provide energy. The dullards who fight them never think of putting them in a hamster wheel and generating perpetual electric power. Besides, the zombie armies never seem to have any logistics to keep them supplied with brains, or any support logistics at all. There's a reason why predators never evolved armies. (Ok, army ants are predators. But they evolved logistics!)
- dannykwells 7y agoNot starting in the UK. These therapies were invented and first approved in the US (CAR-T was invented at Penn and MSKCC)