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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-09-27 06:43 pm

[ SECRET POST #2095 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2095 ⌋

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ariakas: (Default)

[personal profile] ariakas 2012-09-28 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah my bad. I should have read that more closely before getting all up in your grill.

Well I retract my statement then to "butthurt or has read the novel and disagrees with that characterization" lol. I mean that's totally reasonable. I can't stand OOCness either. If it was character-breaking for David to do it, then that's lame.

King (seems?) pretty leftist, so I'm not surprised he's not big on the military. I'm pretty left myself, so I don't mind, I just find it grating when they're cartoonishly incompetent. That's the stereotype, sure, but I don't think you'd want to count on it if you were ever up against the army.

(I've read World War Z, but it rubbed me the wrong way for an entirely different reason: why is virtually everybody who matters after the apocalypse a dude? As I recall, there's one female pilot and one mother figure and a huuuuuuge deal is made about how "unfeminine" the pilot is. Why would a male civilian scrub do better in the zombie apoc than an equally out of shape, unused to fighting woman? Bleh.)
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[personal profile] luxshine 2012-09-28 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
No problem, the good thing is that we found the right thread :)

And yes, OOC if you know the novel. And not just for David, but for everyone in that van. Hell, I wanted Ollie to come back from the dead just to rag on them :)

King is very leftist, yes. But he also tries to be a fair writer, so he tends to go against the powers in charge, rather than against the grunts. Again, the Stand. Sure, the army lets out a horribly deadly disease... but the ones containing it are the ones who have no idea what is it. So of course there were slips and mistakes.

(MMm... I seem to remember more women being interviewed, there's the woman who had been a child in the Canada camps and now is working killing frozen zombies, and I'm sure the russian soldier is a woman, but you're right, now that I think about it. There's a lot of men on the novel. mmm... What about the Newsflesh trilogy? I didn't quite like the last book of the trilogy, but the army as efficiently scary bad guys there are amazing and the first book is very good)
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[personal profile] ariakas 2012-09-28 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
Hrm I just looked over the chapter list of World War Z and you're right about the Russian soldier, but besides her and the pilot and the mother everyone's a dude. There's a total of 23 interviewees, so having 3 of them women really rubbed me the wrong fucking way. I certainly hope women are more than 13% of the zombie apocalypse survivors or we're in for some trouble. Moreover, giving the tough chick issues with her gender was really lame.

I have not read the Newsflesh trilogy, I will give it a try! After I read The Mist.