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Walking Dead: Season 2
Howard_Casto:
They really aren't different at all though. Both the comic and the tv shows overall arcs are virtually identical.... it's just the random drama points inbetween zombie attacks that have been changed. I mean yeah some things are going to have to be different, afterall there are different characters on the show, but for the most part....
Well except for season 1... season 1 was kind of a train wreck in places because they strayed too far from the comics. You'll notice that things follow at lot more closely in season 2.
But the comics may have ran their course.... you can stop reading after about issue 72... I'm bored to tears with their current situation atm. Luckily it looks like things are about to change.
Donkbaca:
I think they are very different:
The whole deal with CDC, not in the comic, that was pretty awesome I thought. I like the TV Hershel better than the comic one. The drama with the walkers in the barn goes down way better in the show than in the comic. The whole stuff with Randall and the first encounter with other humans goes down pretty good in the show. The circumstances with which they leave the farm is better on the show - big ass herd of zombies versus Hershel having a midol moment. How is the exodus from the farm epic in the comics? Hershel just tells them to leave, and they do. Its WAY more epic on the show.
In terms of characters: Shane is MUCH better on the show, he dies like a book into the story. Lori is better on the show. Say what you want about her, and I don't like her much, but at least she has some depth, in the books she is just a one dimensional housewife that gets pissed at Rick for leaving her. On the show see seems more of a coniving ---smurfette---. Glenn is better on the show. Rick - its a tossup, I think the show Rick is more badass, he has assumed more of a leaders role, versus a reluctant leader like he was in the book. The comic is always best when there is another foil for Rick challenging his leadership, that is what made Tyrese cool, but the whole Rick/Shane thing in the show is MUCH better. Andrea is probably cooler in the comic, but the whole Dale relationship was sort of lame. I think she will end up being more badass in the show. Dale is annoying in both... I don't know, I like the show arc better - in the comic they spend way too much time camping, the journey back into the city for guns in the book isn't as good as the one in the show where they look for Merle. The drama of finding rick is better in the show, the CDC thing which isn't in the comic is better. The tension between Hershel and the group is better in the show. In all honesty I think the show is better.
That being said, I don't know how the prison/governor stuff can be better on the show than in the book, but so far, I like the story in the show better.
Bootay:
HC: Not sure I agree. The show and comic are different enough that reading all the comics did not spoil the show at all because aside from the locations, very little is the same. I am fine with that though. If the show was exactly the same I would know everything that is going to happen which would be a little boring. The only thing the same about season 2 is they were at Hershels farm and he was keeping zombies in the barn, Glen is bonking the daughter..oh and Shane died...but not at all like he did in the book. Other than that...nothing was even similar at all.
Donkbaca:
I agree, they are different, and I like the show version better so far
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: Bootay on March 28, 2012, 11:46:10 am ---HC: Not sure I agree. The show and comic are different enough that reading all the comics did not spoil the show at all because aside from the locations, very little is the same. I am fine with that though. If the show was exactly the same I would know everything that is going to happen which would be a little boring. The only thing the same about season 2 is they were at Hershels farm and he was keeping zombies in the barn, Glen is bonking the daughter..oh and Shane died...but not at all like he did in the book. Other than that...nothing was even similar at all.
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Oh you mean the key plot points for that story arc. ;)
What I'm saying is the show isn't unpredictable at all. It's more unpredictable than most things on tv... that's why I watch it, but nothing terribly shocking has happened and you pretty much know where they are going to end up both location-wise and plot-wise by the end of each season.
You've got to understand, I can smell bad writing a mile away and for 90% of the shows on tv, I can tell you what is going to happen by watching the first 5min of the show. The fact that I complain about this show so much when they screw up story-wise is because it is very good. It isn't the usual formulaic scifi crap so I expect more out of it. I just want to see them keep improving it and one of the best ways to do that is arc completely away from the books. I mean they HAVE to to the prison/governor bit... that's the best part, but after that they really need to go in their own direction because it's getting a little predictable.
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