Radagast wrote:
Mintrude wrote:
Goat wrote:
:lol:
Started Dead Set last night, Charlie Brooker's zombies/Big Brother house thing. So far so good, Rio, opinion? Aside from the fast zombies, of course...
Dead Set is great, although it kind of loses something on repeated viewings. The ending is utterly crushing, though.
**SPOILERZ, sort of**
The way they just fuck the whole thing up in a matter of a few minutes is what I'd imagine to be the most painfully accurate rendition of what would actually happen in a zombie apocalypse.
The TV producer character was a bit OTT but the scene where he's carving up the tranny's corpse is shockingly visceral, considering you don't actually see that much.
Yeah, I too am generally pro-Dead Set. However, I also agree with the Peggmeister
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/no ... g-dead-setQuote:
The fast zombie is bereft of poetic subtlety. As monsters from the id, zombies win out over vampires and werewolves when it comes to the title of Most Potent Metaphorical Monster. Where their pointy-toothed cousins are all about sex and bestial savagery, the zombie trumps all by personifying our deepest fear: death. Zombies are our destiny writ large. Slow and steady in their approach, weak, clumsy, often absurd, the zombie relentlessly closes in, unstoppable, intractable.
However (and herein lies the sublime artfulness of the slow zombie), their ineptitude actually makes them avoidable, at least for a while. If you're careful, if you keep your wits about you, you can stave them off, even outstrip them - much as we strive to outstrip death. Drink less, cut out red meat, exercise, practice safe sex; these are our shotguns, our cricket bats, our farmhouses, our shopping malls. However, none of these things fully insulates us from the creeping dread that something so witless, so elemental may yet catch us unawares - the drunk driver, the cancer sleeping in the double helix, the legless ghoul dragging itself through the darkness towards our ankles.
+1
