Doctor Who Retrospective Review - "The Unquiet Dead"
The Zombies So here come my opinions on the Zombie Apocalypse. I've read World War Z and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but the only zombie books I love are the ones in Mira Grant's Newsflesh series. I'm not into zombies very much and according to a co-worker who greets me with "How are you this zombie-free morning" every day, I'm in the minority. I first realized where I stood on the effectiveness of the zombie mythos when I was 20. I was in BYU's University Chorale and we sang an unusual Easter song. It was in Creole and one part of the lyrics went like this: "Christ is risen, hallelujah, He's not a zombie, hallelujah." Um...what? Yeah, my first reaction to a man miraculously rising from the dead is to make sure he's not a zombie and I'm sure that the Jews of Nazareth felt the same way. Since this is a Christmas-based episode, I think I can get away with a little religious commentary here. It says in the Bible that "the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible." I think that the modern world is not so much afraid of going to hell as they are afraid that when we die, there is no heaven or hell. There is resurrection, but it is not "incorruptible" as the faithful believe. It's a violation of everything that life after death is supposed to entail. There's also the matter of us being able to choose between good and evil ourselves. We all have the power of choice...until the Zombie Apocalypse. So not only does God ditch us when we're promised that eternal life is all that, but he makes sure we can't do anything about it. I'm going to leave this conversation now before I start quoting more of the Bible. So yeah, that's why I figure people fear the zombie mythology. Or at least why the Christians of the world have reason to fear it. And since this is a Christmas episode, we'll go with that being a solid rationale. Plus the white walkers in this episode are kind of creepy.