Just kill all the zombies when they're still very few. That's it. That's all. There were even months to do it in the book, but in Nights the panic is over they begin effortlessly and systematically eradicating the zombies within hours, which is what would happen (and the people at the house are besieged and die only because they trapped themselves near a cemetery - could and should have left, even by foot, as the sole survivor woman in Savini's version does eventually, just walking out and away, and the heroic black guy was wrong and the cowardly Jew was right, and he would survive too if she just didn't shoah him upon return in the scene that I linked).
I liked the fast zombies trend while it was a thing. A horde of angry, sprinting madmen that ignore pain is a really good apocalypse. And it works well in non American countries.
The premise of Walking Dead that everybody is infected could also work because people sometimes die randomly so entire society has to be restructured to keep people safe from each other. And you're going to make mistakes when you are under pressure.
Show had two problems, that it sometimes took a very long time to turn so cast can cry about it (should always be instant) and the zombies were too stupid and/or slow. They have to be a challenge in some way.
Live in the north, survive until the first hard frost, go around bashing frozen zombies heads in.
Boom, problem solved.
Just kill all the zombies when they're still very few. That's it. That's all. There were even months to do it in the book, but in Nights the panic is over they begin effortlessly and systematically eradicating the zombies within hours, which is what would happen (and the people at the house are besieged and die only because they trapped themselves near a cemetery - could and should have left, even by foot, as the sole survivor woman in Savini's version does eventually, just walking out and away, and the heroic black guy was wrong and the cowardly Jew was right, and he would survive too if she just didn't shoah him upon return in the scene that I linked).
Zombies aren't really the best apocalypse. They require a lot of dumb decisions on the protagonist's part. It really pulls me out of the story.
I liked the fast zombies trend while it was a thing. A horde of angry, sprinting madmen that ignore pain is a really good apocalypse. And it works well in non American countries.
It doesn't matter how much they ignore pain if napalm and flamethrower exist
The premise of Walking Dead that everybody is infected could also work because people sometimes die randomly so entire society has to be restructured to keep people safe from each other. And you're going to make mistakes when you are under pressure.
Show had two problems, that it sometimes took a very long time to turn so cast can cry about it (should always be instant) and the zombies were too stupid and/or slow. They have to be a challenge in some way.
That's why you need Nazi zombies