Zombies are everywhere these days. They’re storming the Lincoln Memorial, they’re in our video games, they’re being spoofed on Community, they're appearing in our political cartoons, and they’re coming to AMC. This weekend AMC will premier their new drama The Walking Dead. There have been ads for The Walking Dead all over the internet, TV, and I’m guessing the radio (I don’t listen to the radio ever) for weeks now, and I’m excited for the show to start, if only for the ads to go away. I’ve been seeing so many ads for The Walking Dead, I’ve started rereading The Zombie Survival Guide and making a list of items I’ll need when the zombie apocalypse eventually hits*.
Given that you can’t go online, turn on a TV, or walk through the National Mall without seeing a zombie, now is the time to ask if zombies have “jumped the shark”? The answer is of course, no, not at all. First off, zombies can’t jump (again, see Max Brook’s The Zombie Survival Guide, so there’s no way that they could literally jump a shark. Second, zombies would just eat a shark if they came across one. Finally, they will never stop being culturally relevant (In 2012, Brad Pitt will be staring in World War Z, also a book by Max Brooks).
Zombies fulfill so many different themes that we love. For example, people being put in impossible situations where they’re forced to do anything to survive; people trying to survive and then reform civilization in a post-apocalypse world; people forced to turn against the one’s that they love to survive; etc. So, get used to the fact that zombies are here to stay. Stay in this weekend, avoid the zombies roaming the streets, bars, and brain depositories, and watch The Walking Dead. You might just learn a few things that will keep you alive when Z-Day comes.
*Bolt action rifle, ammo, machete, rations (seriously, watch this video!), signaling mirror, crowbar, rope, etc.
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