FireAza said:
I really like The Walking Dead, and many people I know are big fans of it too. Obviously, it's different from most zombie movies, since there's a larger focus on the human characters and less of a focus on the undead, but that's what makes it's unique.
ALL zombie movies are about the human characters. Zombies are an environmental hazard, they don't have a character or any terribly interesting mechanics in themselves-- they're a device to force a bunch of (probably incompatible) characters into the paint can and give them an obstacle to overcome with the power of friendship. (Or, in older movies, they're minions serving a big bad sorcerer that needs to be overcome with the power of friendship.)
If you claim to have seen a zombie anything where the plot wasn't what I just said, you're a liar, and not even a convincing one. The only distinction zombie movies have from standard disaster movies is that the power of friendship frequently fails to overcome anything whatsoever.
The Walking Dead has it's good points (the comic, anyhow), but originality is most definitely not one of them.