Editor’s Note: I wanna do real bad spoilers to you…
About two-thirds of the way through the sixth season finale of True Blood, Amanda asked me what I thought the Big Bad for next year’s season seven would be. “We haven’t see zombies yet,” Amanda said sarcastically.
“Oh, it’s zombies,” I said. “They’re talking about gangs of vampires loaded up with Hepatitis V, mindlessly picking off the entire populations of small towns? They can call them anything they want, but that’s zombies.”
“Jesus… there are literal volumes and volumes of monsters they could choose from and they had to ape The Walking Dead? I mean, if they wanted to go with a George Romero riff, they could go with some poor deluded fucker like Martin, but they gotta go with zombies? What does that mean?”
“It means that they are out of ideas.”