IGN: The title iZombie can be polarizing, as I’m sure you’re aware and make the more cynical declare say, “Oh, that sounds so stupid.” Do you embrace that challenge?
Thomas: Yeah. If you’ve seen, we even have fun with it. We’re very aware of [the question] are we on the tail end of the zombie phenomena? I think it’s a fresh approach to them. I would hate it if right now we were trying to do a kick ass zombie apocalypse show. I don’t think we’ll be competing. I think there’s absolutely a chance of some people wanting the violence, survival [aspect] who will go, “This is not for me.” But we can never out walking dead the Walking Dead. We have to be something different on this network.
IGN: Kind of piggybacking off that, was it interesting to find what tone you wanted to do and how much you wanted to veer into how dark will things get and how much horror you wanted to delve into?
Thomas: We do get there. The season finale is a violent, violent episode. I think even episode three that you saw, the zombie in the hole, there we got to find a way to make more traditional zombie tropes work for the show and I think we’ll come back to that at another time So we’ll embrace it but it won’t be our bread and butter on the show. I think the comedy and the fun that we can have with the brain eating, I think that’s where we’ll carve out our own identity.
Thomas: Yeah. If you’ve seen, we even have fun with it. We’re very aware of [the question] are we on the tail end of the zombie phenomena? I think it’s a fresh approach to them. I would hate it if right now we were trying to do a kick ass zombie apocalypse show. I don’t think we’ll be competing. I think there’s absolutely a chance of some people wanting the violence, survival [aspect] who will go, “This is not for me.” But we can never out walking dead the Walking Dead. We have to be something different on this network.
IGN: Kind of piggybacking off that, was it interesting to find what tone you wanted to do and how much you wanted to veer into how dark will things get and how much horror you wanted to delve into?
Thomas: We do get there. The season finale is a violent, violent episode. I think even episode three that you saw, the zombie in the hole, there we got to find a way to make more traditional zombie tropes work for the show and I think we’ll come back to that at another time So we’ll embrace it but it won’t be our bread and butter on the show. I think the comedy and the fun that we can have with the brain eating, I think that’s where we’ll carve out our own identity.
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