I’ve never read the comics, but I played the game, listened to the novels and watched the TV-show. My opinion so far is, that the game(can’t say anything about the comics) is my favorite branch of Kirkman’s undead universe. The books are pretty bad imo. The characters in them are fan-fiction level cardboard cut outs at best and the story is quite predictable and boring.
And the TV-show has not a single character left for which I would give a crap about; especially since all the girls and young female adults are either dead, zombified, or abducted. With other words; what would Aliens be without Newt? What would “TWD the game” be without Clem? Exactly…
And not only that, aside from the lack of likeable characters, there’s a surplus of characters I outright dislike. The fact, that they are also shamelessly copying Lost’s dramaturgy doesn’t help the show either. Oh and what I really hate are artificially appearing realationships, like Glenn’s and Maggie’s; sorry, but I’m not buying into that, even though both are obviously doing their best to make it look as natural as possible; much like Sayid and Shannon in Lost did. I generally hate those politically correct rag tag groups of survivors, even Derryl’s Brother got super soft in the end; that’s very weak from the producers and the writers. There’s so much bad and boring stuff now in the show. And cannibals? Seriously? Yeah sure, there were also cannibals in the game, but this whole Terminus thing? I never could be convinced, that people would eat people just because they are a bit hungry, not when there’s still so much stuff lying around in malls, basements and the environment. Nbdy can tell me, that those handful survivors couldn’t find enough to eat in a country like the US; no effing way.
Either the writers have just gotten lazy, or the whole concept of an ongoing zombie TV show is bound to fail by nature. They should’ve made just three, but extremely tense and well written seasons, with a solid conclusion, or a “solid open end”(not a cliffhanger!!!). Movies and TV shows nowadays suffer tremendously from weak endings, or from them being dragged out for way too long. Longer isn’t always better.