[The Walking Dead - AMC TV Series (spoilers everywhere)]

i don't really subscribe to that idea either. probably should have put it in quotes.

[The Walking Dead - AMC TV Series (spoilers everywhere)]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_triffids

 

everything is stolen

[The Walking Dead - AMC TV Series (spoilers everywhere)]

the day of the triffids opens the exact same way. that book came out sixty years ago. seems silly to dismiss something because it appropriates a common element from another work in the same genre. i mean you could basically just not watch any zombie movie since they all rely on the same conventions and this is what usually makes them work.

[The Walking Dead - AMC TV Series (spoilers everywhere)]

it isn't a rip off of 28 days later. read the comic, it's pulpy but very entertaining.