20 Ways Your Favourite TV Shows Were Almost Completely Different

4. The Walking Dead - Andrea Was Going To Last

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If there's one character that fans of The Walking Dead really disliked, even more than Lori, it was Andrea. Annoying, selfish, and nothing like her badass comics counterpart, the character was the worst translation made from page to screen.

Thankfully, she didn't stick around too long, with the character unceremoniously killed off in Season 3. It might've been a waste of what should've been a great arc, but it would've been difficult to turn things around.

Had they stuck to the original plan, though, then that would've had to have happened. Actress Laurie Holden has revealed that she had an eight-year deal, which would've involved her character getting together with Rick and following the same arc as she does in the comics. At Walker Stalker Con back in 2016, Holden said:

"I was supposed to end up with Rick. I was supposed to save Woodbury on a horse, and I was buying a house in Atlanta. I got the call at 10 o’ clock the night before, while I was shooting, from the showrunner who is no longer a part of The Walking Dead, saying that they couldn’t write the episode and that he was killing my character. So we all got the script everybody on the set was sobbing. I felt like I got shot. None of it was supposed to happen the way it did.”

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