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happydalek) wrote2008-03-04 06:39 pm
happydalek) wrote2008-03-04 06:39 pm
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All Kinds of Wrong. Just. Wrong.
It's not my fault that the last two episodes of Torchwood happened to play exactly to my twisted sensibilities. I love zombies, okay? The whole undead thing just fascinates and inspires me.
...But not quite as much as the notion obviously tickled the guys that brainstormed this little piece of fried gold: Babylon Fields, an ultimately rejected TV pilot about a town where the dead have inexplicably come back from the grave! Dun-dun-DUNNN! But the post-apocalyptic brain-and-organs-munching does not ensue. You see, the zombies of Babylon are really just the same people they were before, only now they've got autopsy scars, yellowish skin and pocketfuls of maggots. But that doesn't stop some of the undead from slipping right back into their former lives (and in one case, into his former wife. Who is quite happy to have him. Which begs the question, is it necrophilia if he's still conscious? AaaaAAAAaaaagh. *shudder*).
It is a seriously bent piece of TV. Maybe it's supposed to be touching, but mostly it just kept pressing my squick buttons over and over again. The link is to the pilot episode, preserved (for now) in its entirety on google video.
...But not quite as much as the notion obviously tickled the guys that brainstormed this little piece of fried gold: Babylon Fields, an ultimately rejected TV pilot about a town where the dead have inexplicably come back from the grave! Dun-dun-DUNNN! But the post-apocalyptic brain-and-organs-munching does not ensue. You see, the zombies of Babylon are really just the same people they were before, only now they've got autopsy scars, yellowish skin and pocketfuls of maggots. But that doesn't stop some of the undead from slipping right back into their former lives (and in one case, into his former wife. Who is quite happy to have him. Which begs the question, is it necrophilia if he's still conscious? AaaaAAAAaaaagh. *shudder*).
It is a seriously bent piece of TV. Maybe it's supposed to be touching, but mostly it just kept pressing my squick buttons over and over again. The link is to the pilot episode, preserved (for now) in its entirety on google video.