The Walking Dead: 10 Great Moments When The Show Ignored The Comic

Sometimes, you've just got to forge your own path. Even if it's filled with zombies.

It's been interesting over four seasons to watch AMC's The Walking Dead run alongside Robert Kirkman's comic, fittingly as an alternate universe incarnation. The survivors led by Rick Grimes seem to be heading for the same destination as their printed counterparts, but have taken some different roads to get there. Much like the comic, they've lost people they cared about and faced unspeakable horrors. But where the comic has sometimes taken a right, the tv show takes a hard left. It has sparked some of the most heartbreaking and traumatic moments in television history. And while some fans have cried foul, asking for a more direct adaptation of Kirkman's comic, it would be hard to imagine the show doing that and still retaining its own sense of identity. The AMC drama has forged its own path against the zombie apocalypse, creating memorable moments that fans are still talking about. When the show ignores the comic and takes the characters into its own direction, it is often better served. While Kirkman's comic is brilliant, and the reason the show exists in the first place, it's a good call to allow it to walk, or shamble as it were, on its own merits. And so it has, with a record-breaking fourth season finale, "A", and a ravenously anticipated fifth season coming in October. Here are 10 moments when the tv show ignored the comic, and was better for it.
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