Im really glad the decided not to make Rick one handed in the show.The problem is the shows writing made The Governor look like a good person in the beginning. He did some weird things, but he was always looking after his people and a lot of the shows viewers thought him out to be a good guy. I mean, he just wanted to live, is that any different than what Rick and his group were doing? That is why I usually don't watch shows/movies that are based off of books/comics because they always feel like changing things and those changes can be interpreted to be the opposite of what the original writer was going after. A lot of viewers, some of my friends included, are looking past The Governors evils and saying he just did what he had to do to survive. People like to see things in black and white where someone is either evil or good, and in this case there was so many episode where The Governor wasn't that bad and not enough bad episodes to taint his image in the eyes of some shows watchers.
In the comics the entire premise of The Governors group was to conquer. They wanted what other people had and in the case of Ricks group they wanted the prison. Right off the bat The Governor did some truly awful things to Rick and his group and there was no doubt that The Governor was an enemy. There was no good in The Governors eyes, and if Rick wanted to live he had to either run or fight. Instead we had an entire season of Rick trying diplomacy when there was NEVER going to be any diplomacy. And that made The Governor look like a better guy than he really was.