Something that annoys me about biozombie fiction is when zombies aren't depicted behaving in ways you know they naturally would Like if your zombie needs to eat, then zombies should also be able to starve to death, a sealed vault full of clickers should eventually just die
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Replying to @rootlessmrgimm
Walking Dead aren't biozombies, arguably. Everybody becomes a zombie no matter what. It's basically Dark Souls.
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @rootlessmrgimm
Yeah the creator of TWD said that in his mind originally there's nothing "special" about being bitten by a zombie, it's just that their mouths are filthy and cause death by mundane infection There's no "zombie virus", zombies are just how death works now in this world
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He was very against the idea of ever giving an explanation for the walkers - he said he came up with one if the suits insisted (it's something incomprehensibly powerful aliens did to clear out the Earth for colonization eventually, like The Screwfly Solution)
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But he's glad they never made him use it, and the aliens would never have shown up onstage at all, it would've been this Lovecraftian hopelessness thing (Can mosquitoes who've been sprayed by a sterilizing agent track down the humans who did it and force them to cure it)
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