Gotta start somewhere, might as well be with the undead

I've been playing the Left 4 Dead demo a lot this past fortnight (short for fourteen nights, in case you didn't know). Ideally, I'd be saying, "I've been playing Left 4 Dead a lot this past several days" but alas I've been severely unemployed for the past... Christ, four months so the $60 retail on the game plus the $10 for one, $20 for three, or $50 for twelve months of XBox Live Gold that is a requirement for this kind of game is just simply beyond my capacity. I mean, I could drop the month, but then it's no eating. Shame I'm not a zombie, there's food everywhere. Speaking of which: playing the demo has gotten me thinking about Zombies.

Most of the media I consume is associated with them. Or at least involves them in some way. Or, if they don't involve Zombies specifically, then it's about the lifeless trying to destroy the living. There are undead in Diablo 2, which I play very often and just about every screenshot I see of Diablo 3 displays either a zombie or an animated skeleton or a GodDamned WALL of Zombies. I almost wrote just "skeleton" there, but I realized that most people may or should just think of the boney remains of a human corpse, completely inanimate and unassuming. Assuming that there is something unassuming about the skeleton and this isn't an episode of Bones. The definition attached to the word "Skeleton" in my brain is two-fold, 1. The boney remains, blah, blah, blah and 2. the animated skeleton of a once-living thing that means, usually, to do harm to the living. Think Jason and the Argonauts and Army of Darkness.

Actually, don't think Army of Darkness, I honestly don't like it that much. Evil Dead II, which your average freshman in college geek has not seen, but will spout unsubstantiated bullsh*t about how cool/awesome AoD is/was. While I appreciated some aspects of what went down (the fudging of the incantation, and a few of the lines) it just doesn't stand up as a horror or as a comedy to ED2.

Also, I think one of most underappreciated lines in Ghostbusters is when Janine answers the door when the police are dropping off Louis/Vinz Clortho and she asks deadpan, "Picking up or dropping off". I'm not sure exactly why I find it so amusing, probably because she seems so bored asking it and it insinuates a number of amusing interactions with the local law enforcement.

So, in a Zombie Apocalypse scenario, what happens after? Do they just wander around, trying to fill a need that cannot be sated? Maybe they turn on each other. They were once human afterall. I've got some ideas, but I think I'm going to keep them close to the vest for the moment.

Also, I fucking hated 28 Days Later. And Shaun of the Dead. There, I said it.