Ever since Night of the Living Dead, the Romero style zombie has been a beloved icon of horror. For a long time they remained loved only by a particular niche; the types of people who love horror movies and read Fangoria. But that is no longer the case. Ever since the first season of The Walking Dead, the zombie genre has flooded the mainstream. They are everywhere now. When you ask grandma how to kill a zombie, even she knows to aim for the head. This is great and all, but like anything fun, there is only so much you can take before interest begins to wane. If there is one thing to be learned from The Walking Dead, its that zombies are pretty boring enemies. They wander around aimlessly looking for people to eat. They dont think, and thus cant surprise you with a new strategy, and if they do it just comes off as stupid (Land of the Dead anyone?). They dont stand for any interesting ideology or moral code. Theyre mindless drones that anyone can out think and out maneuver, and anyone who cant comes off as a moron. What they are good at is being targets for deep seated aggression; outlets for us to kill and maim without resenting ourselves or feeling bad. But even that is starting to get stale. A zombie getting stabbed in the head remains cool only for so long. Eventually it stops being interesting, and in a show that devotes so much time to the day to day zombie slaying of its characters, that is a lot of dead air.
