@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard as for the training grenade thing, he hasn’t actually used it yet, has he? So he may find out when he most needs to use it “for real” that it’s not what he thinks. (But who’s going to explain that, I wonder?) And whether the tank has a bottom hatch or not, I was a bit disappointed that he was ready to blow his brains out before he even took a look at any other options, and then ‘just happened’ to notice a hatch a foot in front of his face.
I was curious what a tank was doing in the middle of Atlanta in the first place, though. I know, I know… ‘zombie attack’ and all that. They still take a while to deploy, and there was only one of them, and it was undamaged, not apparently disabled.
Pretty amazing that everyone seems to lock onto the right radio frequencies… and then can’t hear more than one word in every five. And no one but the main character knows that a helicopter flew overhead. That sound is pretty damn distinctive—and loud.
@cockswain no, I’m not trying to goad you, and the analogy holds. Just because anyone can make “a space alien” anything they want, they can do the same with “a zombie” as they have already done with “a werewolf”, “a vampire”, “a wizard”, “an Orc”, “an elf”, “a Hobbit” ... and on and on. The characters are for any writer or actor (or director, since I guess we have to have some uniformity among zombie presentation over the production) to interpret or invent as he will.
I love the way AMC has opened a contest for a “stagger-on role” as a zombie. That got a laugh.