31st October 2010, 9:02 PM
It's pretty cliche if you ask me. I mean the opening scene, "waking up in a hospital from a coma to find everything in shambles" has been done a billion times, from the first Resident Evil movie to 28 days later. Cliche can work though. If the series is intended to basically be a call-back to every zombie cliche out there all tied together, it can be good in that way. It's got a good start. There's "half-zombie dragging itself across the lawn" ala "Return of the Living Dead". There's "turn round a city street corner to find a whole army" ala Resident Evil Outbreak, and a bunch of others. There's the dramatic "I can't kill my loved one even though I know she's gone" that's been done in... every single zombie thing ever. Yeah, I'm going to call this series a huge pop culture reference to every zombie thing out there.
That doesn't make it bad though. It seems interesting. That said, I bust out laughing at the sheer absurdity of the main character riding a horse downtown with pistol by his side and a frickin' cowboy hat on (yes I know he's a sheriff, but I wonder if they made him one JUST to put that scene in the show, I know I would).
That doesn't make it bad though. It seems interesting. That said, I bust out laughing at the sheer absurdity of the main character riding a horse downtown with pistol by his side and a frickin' cowboy hat on (yes I know he's a sheriff, but I wonder if they made him one JUST to put that scene in the show, I know I would).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)