Maneating mutant chickens...a new trend?

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and given the nature of pop culture in general whenever one thing becomes popular it isn't long before a dozen of cheap imitations follow. X-Men came out in 200, and soon afterward i not a summer passes without a slew of new superhero movies (They're really scraping the bottom of the barrel at this point since most of the big characters have been used up..good thing too, since some of the best superhero stories out there involve some of the more obscure characters.) And though Stephanie Meyer tends to get the credit (or the blame...) for the latest paranormal romance vampire craze, it's really being ongoing since the mid top late 90's, with Laurell K. Hamiton, Charlaine Harris and so on. Harry Potter begat Eragon and Percy Jackson...and so on

The general trend, when it comes to, um...trends, is to ride the whirlwind until it runs out of breath. Given the lemming-like nature of the creative class, may I suggest a new motif to pillage when the latest fda finally run their course - maneating mutant chickens. No seriously, work with it for a sec. First, some brave soul needs to write a bestselling novel or make a blockbuster film about brave heroes facing genetically created, fifty foot tall mutant maneating chickens. In a world gone made, a few brave souls stand their ground against a horde of craze poultry...good tag line. Said novel or million makes, like, a billion bucks. Then every other hack writer, movie studio and TV producer jumps on the barnyard-animals-gone-wild gravy train, and before you know it we have romantic books about love in a post-apocalyptic world dominated by sentient turkey overlords that cruelly oppress the human race, a TV series about teens in a Typical American High School (which tend to be NOTHING like actual high schools in real life...for one thing the kids are distressing free of acne. And TV high schools tended to be better funded than the the real thing....) facing a conspiracy of secretly intelligent sheep seeking to raise the ancient Dread Sheep Lord of the Pit from his eternal slumber to bring forth an age of war and blood against the two-legged creatures of the world, and so on. Academic experts in need of a paycheck write theses in which they prove that demonic domesticated creature are a really a parable for man's uncertain relationship with the natural world. We then work the trend until it get to the point where they're making Attack of the Demon Rooster parodies, at which point the original audience ages out and grows up, while the rest of the world loses interest and the money stops flowing in. Of course, by now a whole new trend will be emerging to rake its place, and the process starts anew...

Hey, it would work! And given the nature of popular culture, it's more than not likely....