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Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead (TV).

Pretty sure that it was him that recognised that it was a mixer, which felt like an "OMG, I might get laid" sort of scene.

[ being a story that is written by a human, not actually happened, suggests possibly some underlying belief of who wrote it.

And the easy parallel for contrasting was his previous run in with a woman that he too was having feelings about. The one with only survival on her mind, and said something like alcohol was a bad idea.

The secret infected of the group I guess would probably be described stereotypically as a salaryman, the number one critique this show has against the culture of, the abusive boss and the overworked and stressed employees.

It seems pretty apt to identify what the similarities of his workplace crush and the flight attendants might be for what might also be criticisms.

Could it be about women who try to use their sexuality in society and might shallow?

That is a worst case scenario, because there could arguably be an equal condemnation of the roles women are put in to survive,

But with our centre character being from the salaryman world, I would say we need the representation of a character so that female characters don't just feel like objects in his story.

I thought the reason Akira decided to try to impress people by chugging a bottle like a frat boy was because he was nervous. As I recall, his inner narrative right before he started chugging was something to the effect of “Oh God, it’s awkward, I don’t know what to do, what do I do, what do people do at mixers, oh yeah, they drink!” Akira doesn't do much in the way of thinking things through in advance like Shizuka does. I'm not sure why you prefaced this with the idea that it somehow reflects the author's inner psyche.. If the implication is that Akira was making a calculated move to try to get the attendants drunk by chugging down a whole bottle, I disagree. He was the one doing the chugging, which is why his cold, calculated, ruthless seduction strategy wound up with him vomiting his toenails up in a bathroom. Akira has no game, in any sense..

I am confused by your confusion. Akira didn't manipulate things into a mixer, the writer did.

Do you think there would have been a change in tone if the infected person who turned on the flight attendants was anything but what looks like an overworked salaryman?

Shaun of the Dead is pretty explicitly about someone with no ambitions in life, and how that pretty much makes him like a zombie. I would say that Zombieland is a little less focused on what its zombies mean, outside of what they are as obstacles to the main characters who have their arcs around things like fear, opening up and trusting. I would say that in terms of fear, a 'loser protagonist' around zombies is a little surface level when considering deeper through lines.

I thought this show was like an acid dream before, but that shark mutation broke new ground.

I would say that we had another woman being killed by misjudging a man as not being zombie, which has nothing to be read into. And the real danger from a woman in this episode was being hysterical. I need to work on not feeling like I am just looking for some sort of narrative.

I could also go on a rant on how so many men being killed in this show without it being acknowledged is a representation of how society views men as disposable and how they should sacrifice themselves to save others, but I realize that would just be trying to turn the series into something it is not.