The other day I was watching an episode of AMC's Fear The Walking Dead, a spinoff of the highly popular post apocalyptic show 'The Walking Dead'. I have loved both these TV shows since the beginning as I think they are really well made.

Also I am someone who likes the action and zombie movies or TV shows have plenty of action and nail-biting moments in them to keep me satisfied. Yet, sometimes you just can't help but notice the numerous cliches that have been highly overused, to say the least.

In fact, in that last episode I was watching, I kind of felt like these cliches were getting to a point where the writers are just getting lazy and can't come up with new ways to keep the audience interested.

Then there are some things that don't make sense at all and leave you with no choice but to roll your eyes and carry on, because let's face it, you're not going to stop watching any time soon. Let me talk about some of these things in this post.

Teleporting Zombies

No zombies are not shown teleporting from one place to another using high tech machines. But often it happens that there is not even a single zombie in sight and when a character takes the wrong turn, a zombie suddenly appears out of nowhere.

The thing is that, a zombie is supposed to be this rotting piece of corpse that would smell from even a distance away. And they're always groaning, so at least you can hear them coming from a distance.

Yet, we have seen countless times these zombies appear out of nowhere and eat our beloved (or hated) characters making their deaths seem 'unnatural' or forced to be more precise.

Nobody Uses The Word 'Zombie'

I have watched countless episodes of zombie TV shows and also most of the movies about them and in almost none of them people use the word 'zombie'. It's almost as if they live in this alternate reality where zombies have simply never existed in their fiction and movies.

We can always hear the characters using words like 'walkers', 'biters', 'skin munchers' or other terms but never do they use the word 'zombie' which is what one would expect.

I mean that is the first word that comes into the mind when you see the undead walking about happily munching away at the living. I wonder what is up with that!

Cars Work Even After Years of Rusting

So, our hero is running away from a hoard of zombies and he is quickly getting surrounded from all directions. (Zombie teamwork is another cliche, but I guess that is plausible).

Anyways, the hero quickly gets into an old rusty car that probably had been lying idle by the side of the road for months if not years and it starts off flawlessly and just in the nick of time, he escapes!

I mean how can that be possible? The battery would of course be dead or there would be no air in the tyres or there would be some sort of corrosion preventing a quick start. But nope, when the plot demands it, the car shall start up!

Where's The Military?

Most of the zombie shows focus on a central group of characters that survive for the longest of time as the story unfolds. But they simply do not give details on how the zombie apocalypse came to be in the first place.

The natural question that we all have then is that, wouldn't the armies of the world take care of the first zombies and never let it spread in the first place? I mean we've watched so many movies where the armies defeat alien beings, and they are supposed to be more advanced than us.

Contrast that to the dumb zombies that simply walk slowly and eat any unsuspecting humans (or animals) and one would think that they would be far easier to dispose off for the armies. But alas, we'll never know!!