iZombie

Welcome aboard!

Also is it me or did the show creator just get himself killed on screen?

Edit: Actually, that is not the same Rob Thomas. I learned something today. It was funny nonetheless.

edited 18th Apr '16 8:48:59 AM by Julep

Yeah it isn't the same Rob Thomas but they included the other Rob Thomas because they have the same name.

So that was the actual Rob Thomas singer? I knew that's who they wanted it to be on screen (but couldn't tell) and was figuring they were going for a multilayered meta joke.

I mean if I learned someone else in the entertainment industry had the same moniker as me - it would be what I would do.

That was indeed the real-life lead singer of Matchbox Twenty. Our Rob Thomas has been making jokes about this as far back as Veronica Mars and it was nice to see that little one-sided feud finally come to a head on screen.

Thanks. I was wondering about that from his first show.

Oh we need to start a summer betting pool!

I wager 5 trope bucks the new zombie nation's name will be... Zeattle.

£10 on a secret government agency trying to keep things under wraps, I think there was one in the comics the show is based on... need to read em again

Not the actual nation but the capital will be call Zeattle.

I'm not sure what they will call the actual Zombie nation but whatever it is will be a pun.

UZA, obviously.

Unite Dead States of America?

edited 19th Apr '16 10:14:39 AM by RavenWilder

Not a pun but he was in the movie White Zombie; Lugosi sounds like a good name for a country.

Zombabwe?

Filmore Graves isn't really that prophetic. If you think about it, it's actually the opposite of what someone looking to create a nation of zombies would be doing.

I'm not really sure how a zombie nation is in anyway sustainable.

I'm glad about Vaughn though.

edited 28th Apr '16 3:17:42 AM by 32ndfreeze

well, its sustainable, we wouldn't just like it.

It's really not. Each zombie needs 52 dead people per year. For a mercenary band in the worst conflict zones - sort of doable. For a ME in a major city? Kind of easy. For a nation? No. Synthetic substitutes would make it viable, but without that, just no. Numbers dont work.

Yeah... there's no way for the zombie nation to work.

Even if they could find a sustainable food supply (maybe monkey brains?) there's just no way they would survive the resulting full on war that the muggles would bring to that nation.

I imagine that will be one of the main conflicts next season.

I wonder if brains from other animals can work. It hasn't been brought up yet but I don't think any zombie thought to try.

Maybe some synthetic brains? Like Tru Blood for zombies?

That's a bit too clean. Maybe they'll find a synthetic brain formula but it will turn out to have some long term side effect.

It's unlikely. Blood is a rather "simple" part of the human body, especially compared to the brain, so while synthetizing the former is within the realm of possibility, for the latter it's...not. But I can picture it being part of a crime of the week or some subplot, yeah.

Animal brains is something to look into. The zombie rat tried to eat Ravi and ignored Liv, just like a human zombie.

Of course, the side effect of eating animal brains (even if it works) is obvious when you gain personality traits from the brains you eat.

You all seem to be assuming that "zombie nation" means "nation of zombies", as opposed to "nation run by zombies". I'd say we're most likely looking at them trying to establish a zombie aristocracy.

That still goes back to my inevitable war scenario.

Yeah, I could see (especially given this show) animal brains being EDITABLE but the result... not as tolerable.

I'm betting Major goes through it next season. (it's like he's in a miserable-off with Miles O'Brien)