@mb: He had become such a cartoony villain by the end of season 3 that an episode devoted to showing him to be more than that was interesting. Trying to meaningfully do that in 5 minutes would be tough. Hell, it's tough enough trying to make us not completely dislike the Governor. Besides, it fits in with the whole "can you come back from the terrible shit you do in the apocalypse" theme that seems to be runnin through this season.
@flacracker said:
@theht said:
@yothatlimp: yeah, i don't think that wasn't supposed to come across as awkward and stilted.
No. The show just has some terrible writing. I notice it tries to be deep but just falls flat. Like when The Governor puts the spaghetti-o's out the window or burn his family photo? Why? Who knows? There was no reason to throw away good food, especially when it is so scarce. Why get rid of the memory of his family? Did he know that he was going to adopt that girl later? Why should I even care about the Governor? He is a pretty terrible dude and I want to see him dead.
When he dumped the spaghetti-o's, I figured it was him not wanting to take any hand-outs, either because of pride or because he doesn't think he deserves it. The latter implying he's come back from whatever psychotic brink he was at.
Burning the photo was probably him letting go of all that baggage. Before that all was the father turning fiasco, and seeing others accept that once someone turns they're no longer themselves helped him come to terms with what happened to his daughter, maybe enough to let go of all that stuff they were trying to do in Woodbury with the walkers.
That, and him packing his things and trying to leave before Lily stops him, suggest to me it wasn't him thinking about this group becoming his new family. Unless of course he's still fucked up and is playing them all, but I get the vibe that they were trying to redeem the Governor some in this episode.
Walking Dead is at its best when things aren't so black and white, and season 3 made things just straight up good vs bad.
As for the sister, her revealing that she was never even a cop kinda frames her as that tries-to-be-tough little sister type. Awkward and young but well-meaning. I didn't mind it by the end. She's totally gonna die though.
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