User blog comment:AlVan/Fight the Living Q&A/@comment-5790496-20130109234148/@comment-3520361-20130110220619

Daryl was originally gonna survive the S3 finale, but if he had, Rick would not have met the Governor at any point in season 3, which would be a huge flaw. Lilly was also gonna have a much smaller part and get killed in one of the prison assaults. She'd basically just be cameo, despite the fact that she was one of my favorite characters in the game. However, I decided on a much more interesting plot for her, and even promoted her to the "main cast" on my character page.

Another Daryl thing, he was originally gonna lose his hand in Blackwater after being bitten. This seemed unnecesary and Daryl was gonna get captured in Woodbury no matter what, so I figured he would take Rick's place in that respect.

Since Daryl wasn't going to be killed, Hershel would be the one who would decide that they should leave after catching Rick and Beth. The same group would've gone, but the situation would be different.

The second episode I wrote was the one that actually had more changes than any. Andrea was originally going to trust Martinez and bring him along. Then they were going to camp out in the forest. Haley would say, "I know you killed Shupert. But I get it. Shit happens." she would say while bandishing her dagger behind her back.

"Yeah. Shit happens." Andrea would reply before killing both Haley and Martinez on the spot.

I dropped it because there were many problems.

1.) Andrea isn't the type who does long-term thinking. She wouldn't bring the two of them along just to kill them later.

2.) The prison's not exactly far. I don't really think they would be spending the night in the forest.

3.) I needed a character like Haley, mostly becasue Alice was nothing like her comic counterpart.

The only other one that I could think of off the top of my head was that Axel and Merle were gonna have their own subplot in the first few episodes where Axel just annoyed the crap out of him while Merle was locked up. In the end, there was only one scene.