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"Sometimes life gives you lemons, and then you have to say 'f**k the lemons' and bail."
If you're reading this, you need to stop stalking me. If you can't stop stalking me, you might as well go here.
*MASSIVE COMIC SPOILERS BELOW*
I'm well aware that the television show doesn't follow the source material all that tightly. That being said, the major events from the comics still occur in the show.
The prison's demise is inevitable.
In the comic, Rick's group is decimated throughout the conflict with Woodbury They lose Lori, Axel, Hershel, Shawn Greene, Tyreese, Alice, and Patricia. (Shawn Greene is Hershel's son and doesn't appear in the show; the farm is never overrun in the comic and allows Patricia to survive; Alice defects from Woodbury to the Prison; and Lori dies at a different point in the story.)
Anyway, because Rick's group is much smaller in the show, main characters are going to have to die to make up for numbers. In my opinion, the amount of people the groups loses during the Prison arc in the comic are about equal to one Daryl. While I agree that killing Daryl would be risky, it would deal such a bigger emotional blow to the audience than Lori's death.
In addition to this, the introduction of Tyreese to the show came way later in the story than his counterpart in the comic. In the comic, Tyreese was Rick's right-hand man. Because of his absence in the show, one can't help but see Daryl that Daryl plays a role very similar to Tyreese's in the comic.
Toward the end of the Prison arc in the comic, Tyreese is executed by The Governor. They just introduced Tyreese to the show. Killing him off within a single season would be a complete waste, and wouldn't have nearly as much dramatic effect as losing an established character.
A few weeks ago, Daryl was my number one candidate to get "Tyreese'd."
However, with showrunner Glenn Mazarra's recent departure, I think Daryl may be safe for now. Official reports say that Mazzara left on good terms due to "creative differences" with the network. Excused me for giving in to stereotypes, but I see network executives only being concerned with ratings and revenue. Both Glenn Mazzara and Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman have stated that characters will have to die in order to keep the story compelling.
Daryl is a fan favorite, and I suspect the network may want to keep him around to appease the masses. So who can the producers kill off in order to deliver that same emotional punch?
Rumor has it that an event that take place later in the comic is going to be bumped up to take place somewhere in the latter half of Season 3. The event in question has Rick, Carl, and Abraham, a character who has yet to be introduced, traveling back to Rick's hometown in Kentucky to clear out what supplies are left at his former station.
While there, they encounter Morgan Jones again.
A recent extended trailer for the second half of Season 3 shows Rick, Michonne, and Carl at an unidentified location that is seemingly overrun. Later shots show them entering a building with an entrance fortified with what appears to be spears.
AMC has tricked people with their trailers via editing in the past. (The original Season 3 trailer had most believing the encounter between the Atlanta Survivors and Woodbury would be taking place much sooner.)
At first glance, the town in question looks like a lot an abandoned Woodbury; I think it's Rick's home town.
I think that Morgan will be rejoining Rick's group much sooner than expected, and that he'll be the sacrificial lamb at the hands of the Governor in place of Daryl or Tyreese.
I feel this way for two reasons:
1. Despite only having appeared in a single episode, fans often still ask questions regarding Morgan both here and on The Walking Dead subreddit. Despite having served such a short time on the show, actor Lennie James' performance was so strong and memorable, he's still in the back of fans' minds two seasons later.
2. Lennie James, the actor who played Morgan in the pilot, is a big-ticket actor. The man is a movie star, and even now it's surprising they were able to book him to appear in the pilot episode. With that in mind, I like to think an actor of his caliber is in high demand, and unable to be tied down to one project for the length of time it takes to shoot an entire season.
His time will be brief, but he's already an established character with a nostalgia-induced repor with the fan base.
[Edited on 01.02.2013 2:10 PM PST]