I was excited to see the Zombie fights. Also, the shot of him before the credits with the little zombie girl is a big thing to, but fairly obvious and easy. He's not morally ambiguous, he's evil. They're taking their sweet time with that reveal though, while in the comics his introduction in that regard is a bit...quicker? That's not the right word, but rather the first to come to mind. Its more blunt. The show is taking more of a slow-burn approach with him but I'm enjoying it. I know few who aren't actually, but like always with things like this there are people who are less interested in character development and more interested in blood so any time there aren't people getting ripped apart by zombies they get pissed. I love this season thus far though.

Beth, Judy, Herschel, possibly Andrea, maybe even Daryl (though unlikely because of his popularity).

Not this season he won't. Kirkman has already said that this Woodbury storyline will carry into next season, they'll be mixing some of the comics stuff up and continuing with Morrissey as Governor. He's great as a character, I can imagine they'd want to keep him for a bit.