I'm a sucker for Zombie media.
Not really about the virus or zombie aspect, but how society is portrayed as it all unfolds. My top two is FTWD and WWZ in that regard. We like to shit on Fear because we've grown to love TWD and the original group that it makes it significantly harder for some to warm up to others.
But I loooove Fear with my whole heart. Sure, it doesn't show the origins of the virus because it was never about the virus or the infection but the people. But we do see how it progressed in Society and how people reacted to it. The rallies about Police violence? The looting? People didn't understand what was happening and they were reacting in a way that was so authentic to how we are as a society. Nobody was thinking Zombies, or the Undead, but everybody was concerned about how the Government and the Police were failing the same people they were meant to govern and protect.
And World War Z is also special to me in that sense. We've got a main character who observed and interacted with his surroundings, who was curious and wanted to know more about this thing and so the narrative is vivid in the way that it gives us all this information as we walk with him through this journey.
And it made me wonder about the First Responders (Military and Medical), in particular. These are men and women who we don't see abandoning their stations. The kind of people who sit through the chaos despite also having families that they should be surviving this thing with. Like, can you imagine the weight of that?
In Fear, we see this Doctor in this facility with all the injured. And when Daniel Salazar brings the horde with him, she stays and kills every last patient as mercy killing before offing herself because no one is extracting all of them and how else are you going to protect or give your bed-ridden patients dignity?
In WWZ, we have a team of soldiers who retrieved the Lanes from the rooftop, yelling, "there's our target! Bring us down!" and "let's go, let's go, let's go!"
These men are extracting a family and making sure they survive while their own is just... out there.
It's so interesting to me to see how these things play out.
TWD, less so, because everything is just already gone.
