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[beccaelizabeth]

Finished watching Dead Set.
Messy and hilarious.
But I was a bit bored with the ending.

I mean, okay, full on zombie apocalypse, that's... fine, if you like that sort of thing.
But it's only dealing with half the Big Brother phenomenon. Like, they're in a house and they do stuff and people watch them. Okay, then add zombies. And people are still watching them. And... everyone dies and zombies watch other zombies? Boring. The *fun* thing to do would be to have the outside world, civilization, whatever shape you want it to take, crash in on them, and see how they deal when they're not their own self contained little world any more. And what's the world Big Brother made, when that house is the shining beacon calling the remnants of humanity together? It's like The Stand... er, I only watched that once, really late at night, so it might in fact not be like The Stand. It's just, you've got a ragtag band called together by something, right? So if it's Big Brother... what world does that make?

So, yeah, zombie apocalypse, full on, squishy and full of swearing.

And zombie contact lenses are fully enough to make someone look entirely not themselves. That's pretty cool right there.

But... I'm a bit bored, because we already know what happens when the zombies eat everyone.
Also, when you make something look inevitable, and then it is inevitable, well, *shrugs*


It's possible I'm not cut out for zombie movies.
I usually avoid the whole horror genre because of, basically, the endings.



Now it's nearly one in the morning and in theory I should be trying to sleep.

Yes.

:eyeroll:

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[beccaelizabeth]

on reflection, I think Riq actually was the outside world coming to call. There wasn't much of it, and it had been doing much the same things as inside the house, and it thought that the BB house was the most important place and was trying to get in so hard it messed up other people's lives and once they were there they said there's nowhere else to be.
And then they all died.
And zombies watched zombies on TV.

so it did the thing, it just said it would never work out.

fair enough.

[aurorra.livejournal.com]

I was going to say. I liked the ending. There are so many zombie films that all the usual "we're going to start our own civilisation" type endings have been done.

Zombie watching zombie on tv was a nice ending as, really, is that any different from what we are doing now?

Zombies are all about killing and eating to survive. The BB House lot decided to kill to survive, and that ended up killing them all.

Lots of nice parallels.

I would have survived though.

They had weapons, and they had the zombies trapped outside the gates pushed up against the wire. Choose the strongest bit of fence and go up to it and start stabbing them in the head through the fence as they are pressed against it. Other zombies will then eat the dead zombies so it's practically recycling.

Take it in turns doing that every day and you'll get through them eventually. Or at least clear a wide enough radius to be able to go out and pop to the supermarket and secure the entrances to that so you can go in and out safely.

Clear the bodies from inside the compound and set up a garden. Go out, nick some tools from a roadworks site and dig up the car park so you can grow grass and get some hens and things.

Find dig up areas around the compound and over time you could get cement and set up wider fenced areas to expand your little village.

Me and Stu worked it all out. We had treadmills and a funnel type arrangement where zombies would come in walk on a treadmill and create electricity and then we could build a pit underneath with a big fire so we could burn them off every now and then.

Ooh I am going out to that chinese restaurant up the road from the train station on Tuesday as it is my wedding anniversary and I don't want to mope around in my house. I am inviting several people that you won't know so I don't know if that would be conversation overload for you, but you are welcome to come if you would like to.

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[beccaelizabeth]

Tuesday is my college-until-1900 day. And then I get the bus back. And then I try and remember to eat before I sleep rather than mixing the two together.
:-(

*nods* about Dead Set

but I think you're underestimating the zombie population. I mean, if they're just a couple hundred fans, yeah, but if they're the entire population of Britain, that's a lot of head stabbing.

also it's important to know if 'other zombies will then eat the dead zombies' results in stronger zombies.
and the breaking strength of the fence.

but yeah, it's a nice start.

[aurorra.livejournal.com]

Never mind.

I think there would be many zombies but it is going to get very boring in the BB house so head stabbing would fill some time. They all have to go some how if you are going to win back the uk. I'm sure we'd come up with something better long terms like luring them all into a river to drown, or digging a big pit and setting a fire at the bottom then lead them over the edge using a kitten on a stick.

As for zombies getting stronger, I figure that the strongest zombies will be at the front so you can stab them first, you'd just have to keep an eye on them all and develop a system. Make sure no one gets too big before it is stabbed and only stab a few at a time, thus limiting the food suply.

Fences always need strengthening... we would have to find something to shore them up a bit over time.

As you can tell, I put far too much thought into all this and play resident evil a bit too much.

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[beccaelizabeth]

perfectly reasonable amount of thought.
have you seen the website that figured out how long various sorts of power station would keep working in case of a zombie apocalypse?
zombies are a great security exercise, cause usually you have assumptions about what people won't do, how much effort they can put out for how long, all that. zombies just keep going, full on, for as long as it takes.
course they're also stupid.
so you try the same thing against vampires. they need inviting in, but in a properly secure area so does anyone. they're all about the smarts, the charm, the con act, the social engineering. And they can convert almost as quick as zombies. If you can keep them out, you'll do fine against humans.

... I used to RPG. I've thought about this a lot, with dice, and character sheets.

[aurorra.livejournal.com]

I had not seen that website but I will now!

Vampyres are a completely different kettle of fish - plus you have your buffy / anne rice stylish vamps and your more evil I am Legend types.

With vamps you can wander about and live a fairly normal life if you just eat a lot of garlic.

Have you heard the theory that the vamp myth is based on people with Rabies?

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[beccaelizabeth]

but the stylish vamp thing is to make you not want to eat garlic...


there's lots of vampire theory. I think the enduring aspects of the legend don't have a lot to do with rabies any more.