The general notion of vampires has inspired a huge variety of different stories with very different creatures called vampires. Within that variety, some of the creatures are people I really enjoy reading about and playing with in my imagination; some of them are just icky and gross.
Zombies are much less rich and varied. They're uniformly icky and gross. I do love some of the comedy about them, but I don't like the basic idea. Is that inconsistent? Well, we couldn't have "Telly Taley Heart" without the Billy Ray Cyrus original either, but that doesn't mean I want to listen to the original.
I agree that Zombies are uniformly icky and gross. Also pretty well always dumb. And I don't generally enjoy dumb; it's why I generally avoid parties where the main goal is to get drunk. It inhibits the intelligent conversation that is, for me, the highlight of a good party.
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Date: 2008-06-06 04:38 pm (UTC)Zombies are much less rich and varied. They're uniformly icky and gross. I do love some of the comedy about them, but I don't like the basic idea. Is that inconsistent? Well, we couldn't have "Telly Taley Heart" without the Billy Ray Cyrus original either, but that doesn't mean I want to listen to the original.
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Date: 2008-06-06 07:03 pm (UTC)