Narwhal (narwhal)'s status on Monday, 11-Jan-16 18:57:41 UTC
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@tiffany All genres have specific trappings and stylistic leanings they fall into. You could make similar criticisms about sci-fi, crime drama, fantasy, romance, and plenty of other storytelling genres. "Zombies" is an easy target because it's not really a meaningful genre so much as it is a really ubiquitous storytelling vehicle, so it's easy to compare multiple pieces of "zombie" media on a narrative framework analysis and come to the conclusion that they're all the same with no meaningful distinction. This is unfair though, because it divorces many of these works from their specific narrative and thematic contexts, usually the strength of a piece of media isn't just what it's about but how it articulates what it's about. That's when you really start to strongly critique media. I'm not really even much of a fan of zombie media, but I feel it's unfair to dismiss all of it because I'm not into some of it.
