Timeline for Why hasn't anyone in Walking Dead ever heard of Zombies before?
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| Jun 6, 2018 at 19:45 | comment | added | Quasi_Stomach | To be fair, movie zombies are nothing like the occult origins of the term. So maybe nobody in their universe thought to apply the word Zombie to the Biters any more than I would apply the word Vampire to whatever exists in the Twilight movies/books. | |
| Nov 24, 2014 at 20:54 | answer | added | Alec Skinner | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 18, 2014 at 23:12 | comment | added | David Thomas | Incidentally: Tim Absath, of CAD (formerly ctrl-alt-del), agrees with you. | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 23:17 | comment | added | BraveLilToaster | I have a better question. How is it exactly that people who have been surviving in a zombie apocalypse for the past 3 years, have no idea how to survive a zombie apocalypse without Rick's help? You know, like basically every time the group discovers new survivors. | |
| Apr 9, 2013 at 8:08 | answer | added | Paul Oleske | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 8, 2013 at 0:54 | answer | added | George | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 26, 2012 at 12:36 | comment | added | Owen Blacker | I was just about to comment the same this as grautur has here. Mira Grant's Newsflesh series handles this particularly well (and they worship zombie reference material: George and Shaun are popular post-Rising children's names), but this also makes sense (to me) as part of the reason that civilisation is not so completely screwed as in other genre works. They're definitely worth reading. | |
| Nov 2, 2011 at 12:37 | vote | accept | DampeS8N | ||
| Nov 2, 2011 at 4:36 | comment | added | grautur | One of the neat things about Mira Grant's (awesome) Newsflesh series is that people have in fact heard of zombies before, and George Romero is actually a kind of hero for unwittingly teaching everyone how to survive against them. | |
| Oct 31, 2011 at 15:36 | answer | added | Eight Days of Malaise | timeline score: 27 | |
| Oct 25, 2011 at 15:34 | comment | added | Rob | Why does everything have to happen in our universe? Clearly this is a case of "Zombies only happen in universes where zombies aren't known of". Which is great, because we're really safe then! | |
| Oct 23, 2011 at 21:09 | comment | added | DampeS8N | @NickT: False Dichotomy. In a story where it was done well, such as World War Z, taking it from the stand-point where people know what's happening the moment it starts doesn't need to result in Genre Savvy characters. | |
| Oct 23, 2011 at 17:57 | comment | added | Nick T | Excessive GenreSavviness can ruin the story even worse than GenreBlindness | |
| Oct 23, 2011 at 13:05 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/128094589981687808 | ||
| Oct 23, 2011 at 5:55 | vote | accept | DampeS8N | ||
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| Oct 23, 2011 at 4:33 | answer | added | Ian Pugsley | timeline score: 30 | |
| Oct 23, 2011 at 3:43 | history | asked | DampeS8N | CC BY-SA 3.0 |