Was the show originally going to go for a supernatural theme in season 1?

First of all, I still marked this as a spoiler in case someone living under a rock still hasn't seen the best season of The Walking Dead (Don't @ me). But in one of the episodes the character Jim begins digging a bunch of graves up on a hilltop. At this point no one is dead, so what he's doing seems to be the effects of heat stroke.

However, later on, a Walker attack on the camp leads to a bunch of deaths. After the Walkers have all been killed off, Jim reveals that he saw this in his dream. That's an awfully strange thing to dream about if you ask me. I know that they later went with a virus/prion/parasite or whatever that restarts the brain stem, but was the original intention for the Walker epidemic to have a supernatural origin?

Also Jim was a really interesting character, its a shame he went so early.

Submitted December 23, 2019 at 02:29AM by Toxinz1181 https://ift.tt/2EMER7m