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Originally Posted by BigC208
Been reading the comic series since it began in 2003. They strayed from the comic book storyline. I had a hard time getting into the characters because of preconceived notions. I see the two as seperate now and enjoy them both. It's more about human survival than zombies as the story unfolds. People are worse enemies than zombies. One thing that's pretty close to the comic is that none of the core characters are spared. People get killed off left and right and that keeps the show unpredictable. Dale and Sophia were suposed to die much later in the storyline and they kept Shane around a lot longer than in the comic. Also, Ricks son, Carl, killed Shane as a normal, non zombie, human being. Another thing that's not clear on the show is how/why people turn zombie. In the comic it's shown that everyone who dies, zombie bitten or not, returns from the dead unless decapitated or shot in the head. I recommend everyone who likes the show to read the comic also.
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Avast, here be spoilers!
I don't mind though, me and the missus watch this show almost religiously. Unfortunately she can't wait most of the time and reads as many spoilers as possible and gets too excited not to tell me, so I know everything that happens the week before it happens. The worst thing is, we get the episodes on Monday over here (they're on on a Sunday in the states), and whenever I come home on a Monday she's got a massive grin on her face, and all I have to do is say 'go on then' and I get an indepth desciption of the plot of this weeks episode before we've even seen it.
I really love the show though. Like people have said, the human element in it is great. It's nice that they don't all go around with ridiculous machineguns and rocket launchers that they 'found' (must have been one hell of a hunting store), although they never seem to run low on food or ammo. And from what the missus says, they have strayed from the comics, but it's a bit better for it I think, since it seems that they've made it much more believable than the comics sounded to me (based on the wikipedia summaries anyway
). It'll be interesting to see how they run series 3 though, since with all the deaths this season they're going to have to add new characters if they're going to keep the body count up, or unless the next series is the last.