First, let me say that I agree with some of IndeedProceed's points. The zombie genre is sort of divided into two sorts of zombie stories: the dumb, slow moving zombie that takes years to overtake the world (see the Romero series) and the fast, ultra brutal zombies who take over places quickly. In this series we have the slow moving, dumb zombies take over everything in a matter of weeks, which is a bit unexplained.
I meant to address this. The 28 days later zombies (actually, they were just 'infected') could storm the camp quietly, they're fast. The I am Legend 'zompires' same thing..but Romero's zombies aren't that scary.
But my main problem with the series so far has been the very shoddy writing. Previous plot points are completely ignored without a second thought. There are many such problems to recall them all here, but let me just point out a recent, and pretty egregious one in my opinion.
So we spent most of the 5th episode on the "CDC or fort benning" decision. Lots of heated exchanges and all that over it. And so they decide to go to the CDC. Only they get there and everything is deserted. No big deal, right? Just turn around and head for fort benning, right? Except that apparently they were low on gas and couldn't make it to fort benning anymore. So that was the major point of tension at the end of the fifth episode. Shane blames Rick for taking them there, condemning them and all that. Here's why this bothers me: if they almost ran out of gas driving to the cdc from their location at the outskirts of Atlanta (a distance that rick and others jogged in a previous episode), how were they even considering the much longer drive to fort benning to begin with? In other words, the writers wrote a pretty big plot hole just to drum up the drama for the "cdc or fort benning" decision, and later for the deserted cdc reveal.
Just like the whole "grenade" fiasco. So they spent the entire second episode looking for a way of producing a loud enough noise to draw the zombies away from that particular building they were in, and Rick had a grenade in his pocket? One he forgot about as he put his clothes in the laundry load?
Yeah, and he never brought it up, or looked for it? Makes no sense. Worst Sheriff ever.
My pet peeve is that survivors never use the most resource-efficient anti-zombie weapon: gravity.
Think about it - lure a bunch of zombies up to a roof of a building or mall or something. Get a sheer drop between you and them; cross over to another building and remove the bridge maybe. Or use a crane and dangle someone over a cliff as bait. Watch them all fall trying to get to you. The ones that weren't "killed" would be immobilized. Repeat as necessary.
A cool series might be tracking the civilization that rises up after the initial invasion.
Like first scene, pilot episode, a guy walks out of his house to go check his Zombie traps, and dispose of any that managed to get caught in them.
It would be a lot like living in a post-plague world or something. Always wash your hands, don't get close to sick people, and be wary of survivors.
Anyone else watched Jeremiah? (its free on Netflix on demand)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290966/Kinda like a Jeremiah with zombies.
