[TV] The Walking Dead - Page 378

On November 18 2013 22:51 HeadlessWonder wrote:
^ You forgot the conveniently twisted ankle :D

On November 18 2013 12:25 jeeeeohn wrote:
Wow, this episode had absolutely no connection to anything. I didn't give one shit about these new people, and I wish the zombie horde at the end had killed all of them. Why do these people matter? What's going on at the prison? Why are they suddenly making the governor sympathetic after he's already committed terrible, unforgivable atrocities? Jeesh, what a throwaway episode.

On November 19 2013 01:39 aCePikNik wrote:
Did anyone else spend half of the last episode wonder when/if the gov. was going to kill everyone that was trying to help him for no apparent reason then continues on towards the prison..?

On November 19 2013 02:29 Cel.erity wrote:
I thought the idea of the episode was decent, but the execution was awful. He spends half of the episode just moping around, and the other half being some chivalrous superhero. Come on, this is a guy who gunned down ~30 innocent people for no reason. Everything he does is in his own self-interest. I would have preferred it more if they had integrated some flashbacks to his time before the apocalypse, and given him some more sinister motivations, like using the girls to rebuild his ideal society.

Speaking of which, it doesn't help that the acting from the two women was abominably bad. "I understand, so like, whatever. We're cool and stuff. *fist bump*"

On November 19 2013 02:29 Cel.erity wrote:
I thought the idea of the episode was decent, but the execution was awful. He spends half of the episode just moping around, and the other half being some chivalrous superhero. Come on, this is a guy who gunned down ~30 innocent people for no reason. Everything he does is in his own self-interest. I would have preferred it more if they had integrated some flashbacks to his time before the apocalypse, and given him some more sinister motivations, like using the girls to rebuild his ideal society.

Speaking of which, it doesn't help that the acting from the two women was abominably bad. "I understand, so like, whatever. We're cool and stuff. *fist bump*"

On November 18 2013 12:25 jeeeeohn wrote:
Wow, this episode had absolutely no connection to anything. I didn't give one shit about these new people, and I wish the zombie horde at the end had killed all of them. Why do these people matter? What's going on at the prison? Why are they suddenly making the governor sympathetic after he's already committed terrible, unforgivable atrocities? Jeesh, what a throwaway episode.

And it looks like there's going to be another one next week just like it. I think I'm going to clock out here, folks.

On November 18 2013 19:34 Sponkz wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +

[B]On November 19 2013 06:06 Sent. wrote:
I don't want to complain because I think it's still much better than season 2 or 3 but I don't understand why they are trying to redeem the Governor. He was an irrational psycho and now they're making him look like he's a good guy who just made some mistakes in the past. Decent person doesn't collect human heads. Merle's redemption was passable but this is just stupid.

On November 19 2013 05:28 stratmatt wrote:
Goddamn the things people will criticize this show for lol....

Last week I was upset because the entire episode relied on people doing stupid things that they should know better by now not to do and people tell me im dumb and should just stop watching.

This week we finally have a refreshing episode that gives us a break from the goddamn prison and people completely miss the point....

Yeah the governor is a huge asshole crazy person but who the fuck isnt at some point in this show's history? The entire show is about the social and psychological challenges that the humans face in light of their new environment / society and the ways in which they change / deal with them. We have seen numerous people go from good guys to bad guys and back through the series so far. We saw that each and every person is a human being underneath the multiple layers their current personalities are now made up of.

The governor is no longer the governor, he has nothing, and nobody. His power has been reduced to nothing and he has found a small group of people who he sees as in need of his assistance. So what if he killed a bunch of people in a crazy rage? That doesnt mean he will kill everybody he sees! Do you people know how to read(or watch) between the lines at all? He burned the picture of his dead family in this episode because he has finally moved on from that tragedy, something that he hadnt let go of up until this point, and something that every living human must go through. Now he has found a replacment for what he has lost and is possibly seeing it as a way towards redemption.

Finally a real episode with some real character development and people wanna go back to the clownhouse where people doing dumb shit daily is the only means of plot progression.

On November 19 2013 07:08 Acrofales wrote:


In his crazy rage he murdered 30 people. Before then, he had murdered people in cold blood, and stuck their heads in jars on a shelf... and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Seriously, it seems like you conveniently forgot the entire first half of season 3 in order to make the governor just some guy who made a bad decision and is now down on his luck. He is a fucking wackjob psychopath.

On November 19 2013 07:11 rd wrote:


Yeah, and the entire first half of season 3 he was in denial over the death of his daughter, which was what probably drove him to insanity. The entire point of this episode was to show how he had never gotten over her death UNTIL the new group basically explains to the audience the theme at play which is that he should get over his daughter's death and accept their daughter in her place (and possibly) overcome his insanity. It's supposed to be a new start through redemption in achieving what he failed to do in a "past lifetime." It almost comes straight from the TWD game itself.

On November 19 2013 07:18 Acrofales wrote:


The parallels weren't lost on me, but in the game you play a far more ambiguous character than that. He was a good guy, who committed a crime of passion, not a murderous psychopath.

And his daughter dying and turning into a zombie is a fucking weak excuse for his behaviour. How does sending out a hunting party for Michonne relate to his daughter? How about torturing Glenn with a zombie, and molesting Maggie?

EDIT: message I replied to was edited. I personally find it both an overused theme and completely ridiculous in this case. The governor *snapping* because his daughter died does not adequately explain his sadistic control-freak behaviour... and you don't need a psychology degree to get that.