[K5pbem] Current events affecting the K5 universe

[Warren Bailey]

Michael Surbrook wrote:

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> On Sep 3, 2005, at 9:15 AM, Warren Bailey wrote:
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>>> I've personally never found zombies to be particularly scary, I  
>>> have difficulty suspending disbelief enough to consider a  
>>> shambling,  semi-decayed corpse as a threat.  Sure it would smell  
>>> bad but the dead are very flexible and their strutural integrity  
>>> isn't good,  that's all part of the beig dead thing.
>>
>
> The fear comes from several factors.
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> 1) It's dead... how do you "kill" it?
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> 2) There are a lot more dead people than living people.
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> 3) If zombies can create more zombies by killing the living, then you  
> have the fear of disease and plague.
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> 4) If the zombies simple eat people, you have the "eaten alive" fear  
> (which one of the things that makes JAWS scary).
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None of that works for me because they are dead.  The dead no longer 
move.  I'm on a cemetary committee amd I'm also a first responder on a 
rural volunteer fire department.  I've seen the dead,  they may be 
gory,  it may make me sick but they're not getting up because they're 
dead.  I don't get whatever motivation that zombies are suppose to have 
for eating anyone,  they can't eat because they are dead.  I'll be 
honest,  zombie movies have never scared me.  They've always struck me 
as silly.  While my friends would be cringing and shrieking I'd just be 
shakin my head.  Dead is dead.