There, I said it.

[sarren]

I LIKE Z NATION MORE THAN THE WALKING DEAD.

We watched the pilot a few months ago and thought it had promise, even given the really stupid thing the allegedly competent major character did. So we liked it, but not enough to prioritise it.

Decided to give it another go last night, meaning to just watch one or two eps, ended up mainlining the entire season over last night and tonight.

I think my fave thing about this show is that all the men have facial hair (except the very pretty teenager, but he is conceivably still young enough not to have started shaving yet).





The main characters - good people who band together as a team and support each other no matter what.

The humour - terrible things happen in this show (one scene so horrific that for the first time ever Dragonfly let me fast forward through it), but there are also lots of tongue-in-cheek and laugh out loud moments.

Murphy! Not quite a such good guy, but his character development is intriguing.

The world building and overarching plot.

I also like that it's not as gory as TWD, sure, people get bitten by zombies and there's lots of zombie head bashing, but not the long drawn out munchfests that TWD loves to gross us out with.

Comments

[tehomet]

I gave up watching TWD because it was so gory and some of the characters didn't inspire me to give a toss whether they lived or died. What can I say? I lack compassion. :)

Why so many zombie shows, though?

[sarren]

Because it's popular at the moment and people are watching them :) A while back it was vampires.

[tehomet]

Yes, indeed, but doesn't the wave of interest in things zombie indicate something about the state of the nations? It used to be said that the interest in vampires lately was an indication of widespread fear of HIV/other sexually-transmitted diseases, possibly. So what does an interest in or fear of zombies demonstrate, arguably?

A horror of death?

An inability to deal with the demands of composting?

One cannot say. :)

[sarren]

The fear that an apocalypse is actually coming? We are going to have massive food shortages soon as we have less and less water and viable land for farming. Z Nation actually incorporates massive starvation as a back story after civilisation collapsed.

At a discussion at a con earlier this year SF writers pointed out that you *cannot* now write science fiction that depicts a possible future for humanity without incorporating the massive impact climate change is soon to have on civilisation and the planet.