As a reader of Walking Dead, I'm very unhappy with the tv show. It draaaaags! Two episodes in and we're still not even through issue #2. They're adding lots of stuff which mostly is just padding. Michael Rooker's character? Snore. Everything about him was predictable to the last second. Not saying the comic isn't a little predictable, but wouldn't an adaptation be leaner rather than fatter?
Example: first episode, shooting the zombie in the park. In the comic, he just stops the car and shoots it by the roadside. Bam, done. In the tv show, he drives by the park, thinks for a while "hmm, that zombie must have gone that way", then he walks through the park, tralalaa nice weather, he's walking, he's walking, he sees the zombie, ah there it is, he walks up to it, hello little zombie, how are you, nice weather, picks up the gun, thinks about it for TWO FREAKING HOURS and then shoots.
The whole show is like this, dragged out. New and unnecessary scenes with needless exposition to write you on the nose. His wife is now with another guy! Do you realize this? Let us show you it some more! And again! While in the comic this is only hinted at for several issues until it's revealed and dropped like a bomb.
And don't get me started on them calling the zombies "walkies". Ugh.
The walking dead is more like The slowmotion car accident. I can't help watching but it's crap.
Great effects though.