Zombies float, but boring zombie shows will sink.

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Zombies float but boring zombie shows will sink
Season Two of Fear The Walking Dead has begun. For a show that promised to be completely different from the show from which it was spawned, there were a few moments that were eerily similar in the season two premiere.
Watching the military fire bombing a cityscape, think Lori Grimes and Shane what's his face. Right after abandoning Rick in the hospital and heading away from the city.

Two characters discussing lost loved ones while they were fishing, think Andrea and her sister Amy fishing in the rock quarry.

Driving past stranded survivors in the yacht as they scream for help, think Rick Grimes and the time he drove past the hiking backpacker. On his way back through the same area, the backpacker was being chomped on by walkers.

It doesn't matter where you set the characters, the theme is going to be the same. In an apocalypse, be it zombies, aliens, a comet or war, the protagonist will have to do whatever it takes to survive. As the world starts to end, man will begin to horde, steal and murder to provide for himself and his loved ones.

FTWD is about this teacher named Travis, his girlfriend Madison and their blended family witnessing the decline of civilization from their community in Los Angeles. As more and more people start to die and reanimate, the military arrives and martial law is enforced. The military could not contain the virus and after they evacuate, all hell breaks loose.

This is the same universe TWD is set in. Creator Robert Kirkman has stated that the zombie to human ratio is 5000 to 1. Let that math kick in. Greater Los Angeles has a population of 18 million people. That means there would be about 3600 humans left in that area. World wide, based on the ratio, there'd be under 2 million humans left and a whole lot of zombies.

FTWD has started this season out by hitting the water. It's a great idea for survival because zombies can't swim. They're at the mercy of the waves, currents and the various states of human decomposition. After the gas that causes the walkers to float escapes their bodies, they will sink.

Max Brook's book World War Z, a novel that details the zombie pandemic from a global perspective, also covers the matter of zombies and water.

Brook's writes about how once the undead are on the bottom of the ocean, they're able to navigate through it. They attack submarines, divers and hordes of them come walking out water all over the planet.

Kirkman and Brooks both have based their zombies off George Romero's re-imagining of the genre. Romero showed an army of zombies fall into a river and simply walk across the bottom to get to the humans on the other side.

Season two could wind up being colossal, but like the TWD, if we don't fall in love with these survivors, their ship is sunk.

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