Until today we didn’t know much about Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal Season 3, other that it would not continue the storyline of seasons 1 and 2. Genndy spoke of making the series more of an anthology, following a different “primal” character in future seasons. The fact that he killed off Spear, the caveman at the center of the story, seemed to solidify this decision.

Well, forget all that. A 60-second trailer for Primal Season 3 was released today as part of New York Comic Con, and unexpectedly, Spear is in it…as a zombie. We thought that couldn’t possibly be the case and that this was another caveman that just happened to resemble Spear, but no…Genndy confirmed it himself to the press. Season 3 is about Zombie Spear.

If this feels like it contradicts everything he said before, that’s because it does. Genndy wasn’t lying back then, he just changed his mind. “I thought I would do an anthology,” the website Polygon quotes him as saying. “Primal is the brand, and then here’s a new subheading. I started developing new things… but it didn’t click.” His initial idea, as he describes it, was some kind of reinterpretation of Adam and Eve with aliens. But it wasn’t working and he realized he missed Spear. “All of a sudden this idea popped into my head and I wrote down eight episodes instantly.”

Genndy points out that zombies have been established in the Primal world already. The season 1 episode “Plague of Madness” was about a zombie dinosaur. So why not Zombie Spear? There, he’s back.

What about Spear’s kid — is she back too? Fans were intrigued by the one shot we got of Mira and the grown-up nameless cave warrior now riding Fang, but the plans to make Primal an anthology derailed any possibility. It seems to be possible now, so how about it?

Bad news, folks…Genndy doesn’t wanna. “Don’t cling to [the scene] too tight,” he said, “but it’s all canon. Everything makes sense. I’m not rewriting history.” Maybe it’s too happy for his grim mind.

The teaser shows that Primal Season 3 is as gory and goopy as ever, especially with a zombie as its main lead, and that it will premiere on Adult Swim sometime this January.

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