good dolphin wrote:
In the scenes from next weeks episode they showed a clip where the CDC guy explains some of the history on this disease ("the French held out the longest"). I would think I'm going to get my wish and get an explanation of the genesis.
Is the CDC episode in the comic books?
Nope, CDC is not in the books. But, neither is Merle or his brother or that entire department store storyline from episode 2. Not sure how I feel about the CDC stuff for next episode, its a little too Lost-ish for my liking. Also, I think it takes away from the main storyline which is leading me to believe that the HUGE event that SHOULD happen Sunday won't be happening after all...and that will really be disappointing.
Getting an explanation has never been a factor in the comics, the day to day struggles of just surviving has taken precedent and carried the book with no problem for over 80 issues. I don't really see why they feel the need to mess with that. Once they get an explanation its not going to change anything anyway.
They also didn't do a very good job with Jim's death last episode. In the book, they handled it better in that you knew exactly why he wanted to be left alive, the show was a little murky on that. I've been reading lots of messgae boards and most who haven't read the book don't understand what that was all about. In the book, Jim makes it clear that he wants to come back as a zombie so he can track down his zombie family and rejoin them.
I did like the way they handled Amy's death better on tv than in the book. In the book, Andrea shoots her in the head right away as opposed to waiting for her to become a zombie....it was cool to see her actually turn and to see how long it took as well as the process involved. Plus it was pretty tense watchign Andrea get that close to her zombie sister.
I will say that even though Laurie Holden (Andrea) is a good actor, they really screwed up giving her that role. Andrea should be ALOT younger and innocent looking, similar to Amy. It makes her eventual transfermation into the person she becomes that much more dramatic. On the show she's already kind of a bad ass which kinda ruins it.
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