Responses
Because they're not just "selfish pricks" who are edgy as fuck and emo. This is the most realistic situation. One of the girls realize that they killed someone, while the others are trying to comfort themselves to ease their guilty conscience. This is far more interesting, people aren’t just black or white. Just like how the blonde guy is a coward but he's trying and in the past he simply made mistakes because he was too scared. Or like how Wo Il-Nam is the bad guy but it's one of the "good guy" who killed him. Nuance is key.
the one thing i hate about zombie stories is everyone wants to ignore their morals and pretend what they did was okay. like obviously we don’t know if those two girls were infected or not but all of them deliberately seeing them thru the camera and choosing to not open the door led to their deaths. like it’s okay to be selfish and say “sucks for them but we can’t take risks” but don’t try to delude yourself that what you did was right and you’re completely free from being blamed i hate it when everyone’s like “no..we don’t know though…they could’ve xyz…what we did was right” like lmaooo no it wasn’t. just admit that you guys were being strategic! don’t try to play some saint and obviously i get it, this is a highly stressful situation and they’re not in their right minds but im tired of seeing characters like them. like why can’t we just have selfish pricks who can admit that they only want to save themselves? that’s so much more entertaining