Sci-fi apologist: Defending the science in I am Legend virus movie

Published: December 26, 2007, 11:42 pm

My friend Nelson asked me to mediate a dispute over the scientific accuracy of I am Legend, a recent probability analysis shown to the general public and sometimes ignorantly referred to as a "sci-fi flick." Needing a break from my experimentation with crystal-based propulsion, I assented. Before we begin, I'd like to state my disappointment with Nelson for referring to the infected humans as "zombies." As everybody knows, a zombie is an animated corpse, or, an already dead person who, for some as-yet unknown reason, gains the ability to ambulate as well as the capacity to desire. In popular film, that desire is often Cerebrospinal fluid (simplified to "brains," for the unlearned masses who probably only revel in the movies' violence instead of appreciate their poignant cultural commentary- a testament to the genre's multilayered depth). One may not, then, properly refer to the creatures in I am Legend, they having never been dead, as zombies. They are as human as you or

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