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by WalterBright 2560 days ago
Yup. Turns out, the organs in the body have a purpose, and without them the body can't work :-)

I.e. zombies are magical creatures, even less plausible than godzilla.

I also curmudgeonly think that Game of Thrones lost its appeal when it stopped being about political intrigue and became yet another silly magical zombie movie.
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DennisP 2560 days ago
Zombies aren't the only magic in Game of Thrones. They're fantasy novels.

If it weren't for the zombies, the political story would just be about people fighting each other for advantage. The zombies add a tension between that and a common cause, since the threat faces them all; much like the world we live in today.

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WalterBright 2560 days ago
The political intrigue was interesting. The zombie apocalypse was a singular lack of imagination - how many zombie movies has Hollywood produced? 200? 300? There are even multiple miniseries about zombies. There's simply nothing interesting about them.

Even Lord of the Rings just had to bring in a zombie army at the end, but fortunately didn't spend much screen time on it.

The only one I like was the Jason and the Argonauts one where the hero fights a group of skeletons. The herky-jerky Harry Harrison animation is a pleasure to watch. And it was original.

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DennisP 2556 days ago
The "zombie army" in Lord of the Rings was in the book Return of the King, published in 1955. The first big, modern zombie movie was Night of the Living Dead in 1968. So I don't think you can blame them for being unoriginal. Also I'd say they were more ghost than zombie, in both book and movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYEvmnTghPk

(As for GoT, how many movies have had dragons?)

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SketchySeaBeast 2560 days ago
I'm guessing they didn't stick around for the dragons.
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SketchySeaBeast 2560 days ago
> I also curmudgeonly think that Game of Thrones lost its appeal when it stopped being about political intrigue and became yet another silly magical zombie movie.

So the very first scene of both the books and tv show?

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WalterBright 2560 days ago
The first scene was indeed there, but then played no role for multiple seasons.
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