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Could they have co-existed? (Spoilers)

posted 8 years ago by thepicturesthatgotsmall
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If Melanie had allowed Caldwell to kill her and make a vaccine, humans could have been made immune to the airborne spores and would no longer have been at risk for turning into hungries. But the hungries that already exist would still be around.

Assuming the humans then went on to wipe out all the 1st generation hungries (who can't be reasoned with), could they have tried to make peace with the 2nd generation hungries and co-existed from that point on as two human species sharing the earth? Melanie could be reasoned with; she had enough self-control to make the decision to hunt animals and not humans. Why not the others?

Conceivably, they could have built a society with two kinds of people, one carnivorous and one omnivorous.

[–] 000000000000000000000000 8 years ago

Melanie didnt have enough self control to hunt humans. Thats kind of one of the major plot elements and the reason they set up the whole fakeout with Kieran.

Unless the cure also made them not attractive to the second gen zombies, then there would be no way to coexist and the second gen would be wiped out.

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[–] thepicturesthatgotsmall 8 years ago

She informed the others that she was hungry and left the lab under her own power to go and eat a pigeon. That was self control. She didn't just flip out and bite Justineau and the sergeant, she was able to choose not to.

There's no reason why other hungries in her generation couldn't also make that choice, especially with the help of blocker gel. What's more, according to the book the 3rd generation hungries won't even have "the hunger" anymore, which means after a period of separation the two species could peacefully coexist without anymore danger of attack.

[–] 000000000000000000000000 8 years ago

The self control to delay giving in for a few minutes or hours is on several hundred different levels from the self control needed to co-exist.

Imagine if every time you had a snack, you were killing someone. It is essentially that.

(Jesus, a fat *beep* like me would be a crime against humanity in those circumstances :D).

Additionally, Melanie has a level of self control that far exceeds the norm. The rest of her class for instance. The Sgt rubbed a bit of the gel off a section of his arm and within, what, 30 seconds they were all, except for Melanie, mindless killing machines.

And those children would be even more familiar with humans than any normal child zombie.

The third generation and thier numerous magic powers do solve the problem, but they never come into the film.

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[–] nyu-hikari 8 years ago

Humans can barely co-exist with people who chosses different lifestyles, different clothes, or are just out of the norm. I doubt it would be possible.

[–] Oblivion14 8 years ago

It's actually interesting that this movie is the closest one to the ORIGINAL zombie book. The one that started the entire genre of a zombie apocalypse - I Am Legend (the book, not the Will Smith adaptation which was nothing like it).

In that book as well, the vampires ended up recovering sentience and pretty much "inheriting" the Earth. They too understood that in order for the "new" society to move forward, they had to get rid of the last vestiges of the old society. As long the divide exists, the fear as well, will remain. And that fear will eventually become genocidal, sooner or later.