The zombies in Zombieland aren’t actually zombies, though, at least in the sense of being walking corpses. They’re more like sufferers of super-rabies, still alive but feverish, delusional, violent… and with some vague survival instincts (in the TV pilot, a “zombie” actually runs away from a dangerous object). They won’t be lingering for years at a time as they decay with improbable slowness - they’ll probably live for a few weeks at most and by now, 99%+ of the human population (at least in the U.S.) is completely dead (i.e. not moving). The world of Zombieland is emptiness with the occasional intense threat (though with room for ending that threat with comical flair), rather than a sea of ever-present danger.
Well, there’s that too. I can’t remember how quick the ZA went down in Zombieland. If it went down quickly, then I could see there being a lot of gas around, because people wouldn’t have had time to hoard it. But the power still working is pretty silly.
But aside from that, if the phone system is still working in Z Nation, then why aren’t people using it to communicate? Why doesn’t Northern Lights just give the group his phone number? I mean, I don’t want to see a show about people just talking on the phone, but even within the universe they’ve created, having a working phone system is pretty silly.
On The Walking Dead, you didn’t even need the plural.
“It’s been two months since Patient Zero took a bite of a contaminated burger at a Gas-N-Gulp”
We watched “Fracking Zombies” this week - it was not good. We thought the Walking Dead bunch were stupid, but these guys are attempting to teach us that the Walking Dead bunch are geniuses.
“Hey, let’s fill up a tanker with gas and then just run away from it and let it blow up!”
“Yeah! Best idea ever!”
“Well, I have an excellent little zombie attractor, but I’m just going to toss it away to make sure that the evil guy following me knows I was here.”
And, in closing, I just wanted to say that if I’m the only person calling her bat with all the spikes in it The Thagomizer, I will be EXTREMELY disappointed with the human race.
You much not watch much Syfy, since the commercials for this show were all filled with “here baby baby” RAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH bullshit.
How did the damn baby die anyway? Bored to death?
No. It suicided in protest of the pandering-to-the-audience predictability of the *Uppity Black Character Must Die Horribly *cliché.
Why didn’t Northern Lights guy give them a phone number where they could call him?
And this “cult” thing… [sigh]… seriously? This is where your priorities are in the post-apocalyptic world, recapturing someone who ran away?
The big gas truck was at least partly filled and they’d gotten it running, so why didn’t they drive off in it?
When I first saw the zombies shambling single-file up the tower, I had a mental image of an Escher artwork, figuring the ones at the top were somehow circling back to the bottom to repeat the climb. I’m not even sure what the point of stopping the noisy pump was - zombie go up, fall into tank… and this is a problem, somehow? They didn’t seem to pose any (or no more than minimal) kind of threat to the plan to fill up the tanker truck. Thing is, if you can casually climb a flight of stairs while chatting and walk past zombies, how dangerous are they supposed to be? It looks less risky to life and limb than butting to the head of the line at Disneyland.
Only zombie babies and zombie dogs can move with any kind of speed, it seems. It must have something to do with the lower center of gravity.
Our intrepid warriors stumble into the movie “Motel Hell.”
So, I know that AM signals can go long distances during night and when there’s cloud cover. But, they were running around on a bright, sunny day. So I guess that Northern Lights hacked a somewhat nearby AM station to broadcast, rather than broadcasting from his hideout. So, it’s not just the phone systems that have power, but the radio stations do too? Which means the entire power grid is up and running? Geez, you culty-assholes. Instead of eating people, why don’t you just get a freaking refrigerator?
It looks like they’re just going to use Northern Lights as a deus ex machina. When the plot requires, he will have access to some magic piece of technology, which nobody else in the show is aware is still working.
Forget going to California; they should be heading up north to keep Northern Lights company with his 50 tonnes of food and a nice safe haven!
And, as they said in “Zombieland,” LOOK IN THE BACK SEAT! Three years into the zombie apocalypse and they still don’t check for zombies when getting into vehicles?!? Not once, but twice in this episode!
ETA: I have to say, though, watching the Liberty Bell take out multiple zombies was almost worth the pain of watching the stupid. 
ETAA: Whole lotta thagomizin’ goin’ on!
Can we have more scenes of Citizen Z and his dog; because so far they’re the most interesting characters. I missed the pilot; is Patient Zero really “wrongfully convicted”? I’m going to assume that if the government had to start selecting prison inmates for science experiments that involve being eaten alive by zombies they’d start with the child molesters, and I can’t think of a more ironic thing to make the “saviour of humanity”. 
Speaking of that; testing the vaccine by letting a bunch of zombies tear at the subject is a really stupid way of going about it. Even if you do have guards standing by to terminate them there’s a huge change the subject will end up dying of his injuries before you can see if infection sets in. One bite will do (& you could just have a technician holding a severed zombie head), or just inject him with contaminated fluid. And yes I know I’m putting way to much thought into this; I do the same thing with TWD. :smack:
I didn’t get the impression that letting “the package” get chewed on was part of the plan, it just happened in the course of the prison medical facility getting overrun.
The stupid is strong with this show, though. You have a skilled sniper on your team, just kill the entire cult from a distance and then take their weapons and working vehicles. Why is that not the first and obvious answer?
And of course, crashing and wrecking a perfectly good vehicle because the driver stupidly took her eyes off the road is downright Lori-esque.
I’m loving this show, 3 episodes in. It’s so brainless, it is absolutely guaranteed safe from zombies.
But for something made on the cheap (evidently, anyway), it is chock full of badass. A zombie baby!!! A horde of flaming zombies!!! The Liberty Bell goes zombie bowling down the street!!! And (to the tune of Flight of the Valkyires) “And what you fail to realize, is I’m dragging [del]mines[/del] zombies!!!”
You definitely need lots of extra exclamation points to dig this show.
I know the “it’s so bad, it’s good” thing appeals idiosyncratically, so I won’t attempt to convince anyone not to criticize or dislike the show. It just hits the right notes for me to find it very fun.
And I kinda like that we’ve had about as much plot arc in 3 episodes as it took Walking Dead 3 seasons to get around to.
I wonder if Syfy is making this hokey because of the sucess of Sharknando 1 and Sharknando 2.
I’ve sort of wondered that, too. I’m not sure why Sharknado was so much stupid fun, and this show is just really, really stupid, though.
Which is not to say it can’t get to the point of stupid fun; it has its moments.
I think this is made by The Asylum, which made Sharknado, but somehow, this is not reaching Sharknado so-bad-it’s-good levels for me. Maybe if they had more recognizable B-list actors in it and did more ridiculous stuff like Zombie bowling with the Liberty Bell, I could take it on that level.
Although, while I can enjoy a few hours of Sharknado silliness, I’m not sure I’d be able to take a whole season of it.
Well, this episode was kind of pointless. Although it had some humorous bits, such as the the family of robbers and getting the zombie high. And I think the general falling off the roof was supposed to be a reference to Dr. Strangelove, which, if so, was mildly amusing.
The power thing is really beginning to bug me. Every place seems to have power, but nobody really makes use of it for defensive or communications purposes.
Looks like next week will be silly and awesome.
Thank God, “The Walking Dead” is starting soon because I think i’m getting addicted to Z Nation.
Is it me or is Citizen Z (DJ Qualls) basically narrating every episode.
It’s almost like the first five minutes he might as well just say “Last week on Z Nation…”
I suppose it’s sort of like spaceships with gravity: it’s not really logical, but it would be difficult to film the story without it.