Feel free to open the discussion: open spoilers, open book, open AMC, open everything. No freaking spoiler boxes. I’ll open:
The Barn is chock full of undead.
The book people aren’t nearly as stupid as the AMC people.
Yeah I figured that as soon as someone spoiled it in the other thread. I wasn’t mad about it though, I’m not freakish about getting spoiled.
Are they going to find Sophia or have we been spinning our wheels for at least two episodes so far?
You won’t get any guidance from the books - to the best of my knowledge, the kid, her mother and some of the others are AMC only characters.
I suspect that they will wrap up the lost kid subplot soon, as ZOMG preggers/Watch Shane Implode plot will demand more attention.
The Glen/Maggie thing is ongoing in both book and AMC.
Sophia and her mother are definitely in the comics. The current storyline with Sophia missing for days, however, is not.
Right. Were they part of the original camp? I don’t recall the highway stuff in the books.
Also, no idiotic CDC in the book. And the book people trained early and well with the guns.
Oh, and the barn? Full of dead people - similar to the god awful Survival of the Dead, full of turned lived ones. That turns out spectacularly well as I recall.
OK, does Jenner tell Rick that secret in the books? If so, what does he say?
No CDC in the books, no Jenner. These are AMC/Darabont things.
The book people don’t know anything beyond not getting bit or shooting them in the head.
If I recall, in the books everybody will turn at death, but being bitten or fouled will hasten death. In fact, Shane comes back after Rick’s kid kills him - at some point, Rick goes back to Shane’s grave and puts him down.
Yes, Sophia and Carol were part of the original camp in the books. Carol hooks up with Tyreese (who isn’t in the tv show so far) for a while until he falls for Michonne. Then things go downhill for Carol pretty quickly.
Things get really bonkers at the prison. I’d be impressed if the show actually followed through on the prison/governor cycle.
And the stupid continues! Good shot, Amy: next time, confirm your fucking target before shooting it. Stupid AMC.
Now we have two timebombs: Daryl and Shane.
Nice way to reveal “the barn.” When Maggie opened that note, I started giggling with glee.
Looks like they may be developing a relationship between Daryl and Carol?
Yeah, very, very stupid for Andrea to take that shot, presumably right over the heads of Rick and Shane and others. Not a good way to get people to trust you with a gun.
You know, it really pisses me off how flakey, goofy and mean they’ve made Andrea. Not to mention a bad shot. What the hell!! She’s one of my favorite characters from the comic, too! :-/
Yeah, she’s one of the more stable, level-headed characters in the comic, and is currently one of their best shots with the rifle. Hopefully they’ve got some growth planned for her character in the show.
All correct. Shane was threatening Rick, and Carl (Rick’s kid) reacted (or over-reacted, depending on how desperate the reader thought Shane really was) with results fatal to Shane.
I do think the prison is coming, and I could definitely see the Governor. Given the pace, the prison, especially with the creepy prisoner, could be next season, and the Governor the following season. Personally, I think the TV series is unfolding too slowly, but I personally would finish this season with the band finding the prison and stating that it will be their new home, then panning the camera to show the infestation. I’d then open next season with establishing camp behind the gates in one episode, finding the prisoner’s inside in episode two, the cumulation of the one prisoner’s story about mid-season, and the capture of Rick to finish the season. Alternately, the mutilation of Rick, if they’re going to do that, should finish the season, which might be better as it would move the story faster.
Personally, I’d just as soon the show would ditch the comic book and pursue an independent story line.
What’s the point of buying the rights to the story then? I want to see THAT story, that’s why I tune in.
Most viewers haven’t read that story, so you are in a very small minority as far as your reason for tuning in.
It just seems to me that if next season is spent almost entirely in a prison yard it could be way too slow for television. That storyline needs to be seriously compressed if it is going to be included.
The prison storyline was hardly slow, though it’s probably a bit too much for the casual viewer to stomach:
What with Rick committing murder, Rick getting mutilated by the governor, the vicious murder of the two little girls, the final massacre (including Lori’s death).
Yeah, that stuff would go down well. 
Would be interesting to see how far the tv show takes things if they do go the prison route…
That’s when I started to lose interest. The child murders in the prison didn’t seem to be anything other than gratuitous. I think everything else would be fine in the series.
And when the Governor comes in, that’s when things start getting really comic booky, too.
Personally I would rather see the producers take this premise and run with it in a different direction.